What they do is a little part of all of us.

If we had waited for the government to get us out of there, we would have died. It took the citizens there to get us help.

As things progressed, it seemed like those of us who stayed there the longest were no longer welcome.

. . . our wayward kicking let us down, we gave away too much possession rather than taking the ball to ground and going again.

That's one of the easy things for us in switching. All of our vehicles already can use the alternative.

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.