Go Softly Into Morning
I never had kids...it's not that I didn't want to, it just didn't happen, that's all. So over the years I've been across from the school, I'd hang out with some of them....they sip their sodas and their starry eyes and I'd figure maybe a few of them are going to get what they're after. Not all of them...
...And like a shot, they're out. They go to college, get a job on Seventh Avenue, go out to the coast, whatever. But every once in a while, something like this happens...never makes any sense. Sixteen, seventeen years old, who you gonna argue with?
Nicole was a swell kid....she was good, talented, smart.....(he begins to choke up)dammit