Age of Empathy
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Age of Empathy

CULTURE

Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

Dealing with life when things seem hopeless

“I’ve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
24/7 Sylvia Plath
Writing in blood on my walls
Cause the ink in my pen don’t work in my notepad
Don’t ask if I’m happy, you know that I’m not
But at best, I can say I’m not sad
Cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
Hope is a

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David Todd McCarty

A curmudgeonly writer and raconteur searching for hope and humor in trying times. Top Writer in Writing, Culture, Social Media, Politics, History, and Science.