Jury Duty. Unlike voting, jury duty is a requirement for American citizens.
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Judith Wright
The Old Prison
The rows of cells are unroofed,
a flute for the wind's mouth,
who comes with a breath of ice
from the blue caves of the south.
O dark and fierce day:
the wind like an angry bee
hunts for the black honey
in the pits of the hollow sea.
Waves of shadow wash
the empty shell bone-bare,
and like a bone it sings
a bitter song of air.
Who built and laboured here?
The wind and the sea say
-Their cold nest is broken
and they are blown away-
They did not breed nor love,
each in his cell alone
cried as the wind now cries
through this flute of stone.
THE BOOKS
Will Trent
Stephanie Plum
D.D. Warren
"My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts about as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food."
D.D. Warren
Stephanie Plum
D.D. Warren
"I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself."
Stephanie Plum
Stephanie Plum
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
"I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying."
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
"I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand."
Lamb and Cartwright
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
Lamb and Cartwright
"As every office worker knows, it's not the hope that kills you. It's knowing it's the hope that kills you that kills you."
Burke
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro
Lamb and Cartwright
"Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species."