Saturday, October 31, 2009

THOUGHTS FROM A MANHATTAN TRADE-STER

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by Natasha Hunte Harvard grads pimped houses on the               market while airlines made jets nobody would        fly      I need more d...
Friday, October 30, 2009

AGAINST THE TIDE

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by Earl J. Wilcox Beach walking today--shifting sands impressionable      under my feet---I see two women Marines strolling, holding hands, ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

AUTUMN TURNS THROUGH STRATIFIED WARS

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by Scot Siegel A few little leaves alight on the sleeper wind lemon, iron-orange, vermilion but there’s no dive-swiping gnat-catching tonigh...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MODERN ART

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by Bradley McIlwain I see him sitting squat-legged beside a cup of coins on the sidewalk looking up at me with glinting eyes in between puff...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

DOCUMENTARY

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by J. R. Solonche The CEO of Interface, the world’s biggest maker of commercial carpet, has had an epiphany, “a spear thrust into my chest,”...
Monday, October 26, 2009

A-TEN-SHUN!

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by Leah Shelleda Turn it on     turn it on you’ll see a million chicks beaks wide open for crying out loud a guy says his kid’s been carri...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

BIRD LADY

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by Michael Lee Johnson They call her old maid Misty, as in fog, she misses the sun. She runs a small pet store, more for the injured and lam...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

BRAIN DRAIN

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by Lucille Gang Shulklapper Too bad Dick Cheney, far from brainy, slithered and dithered for eight long years, and willfully instigated fear...
Friday, October 23, 2009

USING BOTH HANDS NOW, THIS BULB

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by Simon Perchik Using both hands now, this bulb flickering the way goldfish reckless in the inflammable water...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

BROTHER WAS A PILOT

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by Scott Simpson In the yard
 that year we played,
 we danced like patriots 
until the afternoon our 
strings and fingers stopped, 
our voic...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

PILES AND PILES OF BLACK FRIENDS

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by Steve Hellyard Swartz Keith Bardwell , justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, refuses to wed interracial couples. "I...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

GENERALS' TALES

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by Bill Costley In the off-limits tea-houses the story-tellers are adding mythicized names to the tall-tale of invaders of Afghanistan: from...
Monday, October 19, 2009

NIGHTMARE

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by David Radavich How can anyone sleep knowing the poor suffer like dogs? Pi...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

HOMELESS IN SAN FRANCISCO

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by Camincha holding his plastic bag reaches 15th and Harrison, one more corner, just like all the others he’s passed tonight, empty. His eye...