““During those long nights, alone with a lonely, sudsy sink,
Jude relished the clanging silence and took time to think.
He’d remember his Grandma, her kitchen and pies;
Imagine the smells and watch breads fall and rise.”
”

““To build your own dream, you gotta break your own tools.””

““Rules for the sake of rules are not very right —
And things got worse.””

““None of the process was right; to be frank… it wasn’t fair.
But no one, for some reason, was too un-busy to care.””

“”Jude got a job before high school expired.
Stifling computerized games rarely inspired
Anything more than swiveling chairs, endless games,
And emotionless faces in search of anonymous frames.””

“”There was a time once —
We didn’t live to get by…””