Wednesday, August 31, 2011

HURRICANE IRENE – NEW ENGLAND STYLE

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by Jan Keough For a few days and more The sky ricochets against us. Wind drives rain drives water. Appointments drop Into the season’...

A HURRICANE APPROACHES

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by  Terry S. Johnson                                                                                                Flashlights, matches,...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

BACK TO SCHOOL IN AMERICA

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by David Feela By now a number two shaded dusk has settled across California. Redwoods leaning toward the ocean cast immense shadows ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

POLI SCI 101

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by Stephanie K. Merrill You know those dudes--the same two hundred men-- Wall Street dealmakers elegantly wasted, climbing New York tow...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

ANIMUS

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by Charles Frederickson I have had stones thrown At me by preschool toddlers Fearful hate weaned insults hurled Spitfire jagged rock cove...
Friday, August 26, 2011

CITIZEN

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by Charlie Mehrhoff Citizen. American. The war, don't say it hasn't come here, I read nothing else upon your face. Ch...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

SASSOON 1916

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by Bradley McIlwain You said once that war wouldn't affect your writing the way it would your guns – but there was never subli...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

CRUEL RULES

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by Bill Costley In the coming Time of Resolve cruel rules will run the world: Only the least expensive get paid. Only the most efficie...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

DAIRY FARMING

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by Laura Rodley A back is worth a million dollars; is a herd worth a back, milking for 60 years, holding the hand of time? Who drinks...
Monday, August 22, 2011

GREEN SQUARED

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by James Schwartz Libya spills across green squares. Democracy flickers in oily nights. The country is falling. Into, A sunrise light...

UNDEREMPLOYED

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by N. D. Martin I arrived at a coffee dispenser at the same time as some other guy. I let him go first. I noticed he had a cup like mi...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

MALIGNANT NARCISSISM: SYRIAS'S BASHAR AL-ASSAD

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by Richard Ilnicki A convulsing brain on display Exposes two enigmatic hemispheres Revealing thoughts laid bare around the globe, Conv...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

WEST MEMPHIS THREE

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by Maria del Fabro Damien Echols Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelly they say you sodomized cub scouts in Robin Hood Hills Guilty wi...

GROUND CHUCK $2.48 A POUND!

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by Gilbert Allen The flyer adds, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS beneath our future burgers.  Oops. Publicans (Republicans?) pour forth those endl...