I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information read more

We don't have a measure of abundance or population density of a single snake in Africa. We need that information to make well-founded decisions about how threatened species are and we don't have it... it's a big conservation need.

It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth.

It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth.

It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years.

It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years.

I just fell in love with it.

I just fell in love with it.

It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,

It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,

He presents too great a risk to the community. No amount of therapy will prepare him for release to the read more

He presents too great a risk to the community. No amount of therapy will prepare him for release to the street.

I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington.

I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington.

We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack.

We didn't think it would hit, so we didn't pack.