Archive for the 'Poetry' Category

Maya Angelou - Still I Rise

As a small business owner, I endure the travails and struggles of all small business owners… cash flow, the government, the quarterly taxes… ahhh, the good life.
Anyway, As a bookseller, I love the written word, and have often found solace in the great works of great authors. Occasionally I will post some of them, such [...]

How to be a man

First, a warning: I am politically incorrect. I have always thought that if you are not offending someone, you are not doing anything. The following is a poem by a very politically incorrect writer, Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
IF-
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can [...]