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Sunday, August 10, 2025

SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS




W.A.S.P.s
nest throughout America
radioactive


#2 Home Grown by Eileen Ivey Sirota

ICE is ISIS
wearing black masks and righteousness—

star-spangled brutality.



weep as blue turns black
sky, sea, ubiquitous death
who hears nature's cry


#4 Introduction to Repairing the Infrastructure by Steven M. Smith



#5 It’s Not What You Know by Helen Buckingham

a NY time
a NY place
a NY where
a real estate
bankrupt could 
point his cocktail sausage 
at the highest office