Tonight's Poet Corner: Everyone Except Laurie
Everyone Except Laurie by Belinda Roddie Everyone except Laurie drank rum, smoked cigars, dipped their cold toes into colder water, and sang songs to appease the moon so it wouldn't get too full and drive them all half-mad. But Laurie stayed in her room, stringing and re-stringing her mandolin, the tuning never perfect, trying to strum a war cry for the cosmos to scream in rebellion, to suck the snobby planet dry.