"The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words."
"When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head."
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Source: Marie Howe (1999). “What the Living Do: Poems”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company
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