Tom Franklin

He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That__ what it__ like to be rich.Here__ what it__ like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can__ find a job because there aren__ any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can__ possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don__ go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you__l see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

...how time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see.