the last word

“Just like Bud Light, Target and other establishment organizations that have laid anchor with extremists, the Dodgers—and Major League Baseball in general—found out that the elites do not have the last word. The people do. In the end, indecency and bigotry were defeated.”

“The judge had the last word. The community had the last word.”

He added, “Their resilience, courage, and perseverance have ensured that terror will never have the last word. The justice, fairness, and humanity that this defendant received in the United States stand in stark contrast to the cruelty, inhumanity, and indiscriminate violence touted by the terrorist organization he espoused.”

“For me it is enough to have the first and the last word, the middle we can discuss,” he said.

The sound of the last word, the way I draw out the vowel, makes me hear how much I wanted that.