Books, books, and more books And time enough to read them. Tell me your stories. ~John Patrick Starling www.johnpatrickstarling.com

Home. The food I love. The people I grew up with. They have no accent. ~John Patrick Starling www.johnpatrickstarling.com

It's America. Love it or leave it. We ain't. Out of many, one. ~John Patrick Starling www.johnpatrickstarling.com

My fall comes quickly.

In the Trophy Room at Mara Lago,

Once...

Now, the day is done.

Business in the front

Humid summer night

Man... look at these hands.

Good stones are hard to find,

Pitching to a chalk-drawn red brick strike zone,

And sometimes restless, far and late...

This is the place you let yourself hear

Below the bough I sit and meditate

"Ain't the beer cold!"

Chained together in the indelible ink of history,