Saturday, July 06, 2013

PYROTECHNICS

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by Martin Elster     The heavens effervesced with smoke and noise as spiders, peonies, and palms enthralled the mobs of men and wome...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

REST IN PEACE
DEPENDING ON WHERE AND WHEN YOU FALL

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by Tricia Knoll “Mummies are a non-renewable resource” - the curator of the Mummies of the World exhibit in Portland, Oregon. Source: ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

IF GOD GOT US TO IT, HE'LL GET US THROUGH IT, SAID THE MUFFIN PAN TO THE BACON PRESS

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 by Laura Lee Washburn Image source: John Darkow/Columbia [MO] Daily Tribune You like your muffin pan with butter. You eat it whol...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

RESERVE

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by William Aarnes Image source: UniteWomen.org She lies on their bed, still dressed.  She tells him. that in this country, if—a big i...
Monday, July 01, 2013

THE ENDURING PRESENCE

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by Rick Gray Archbishop Tutu ordered pumpernickel from the 9th Avenue deli near the Anglican Rectory of Chelsea. Still hot, he ble...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

SMALL WAR

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by Richard O'Connell Image Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Evil is statistical: a long-range game of mind: Prog...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

AFFIRMATIVE

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by The Bangkok Bards Saknarin Chinayote & Charles Frederickson Say yes to natural existence Observing how plants animals grow...
Friday, June 28, 2013

DRIVE-BY PROTEST

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by Mark Danowsky Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.                                             ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

BRIEF SONNET FOR SNOOPS

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by Jen Karetnick Image credit: mjak / 123RF Stock Photo The government is reading my emails, they say. I wish they’d read my poems ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

REALITY SHOW

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by Howard Winn Image source: The Village Voice I find no meaning in popular works about zombies, human vampires, or extraterrestrial...
Monday, June 24, 2013

A MURDER MOST FOUL

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by Christina Pacosz Jimmy they're digging up the earth again to find you,  a Valentine's Day baby from the Hoosier state. A...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

COMING-OF-AGE POEM USING 50 WORDS THAT MIGHT CAUSE THE NSA TO FLAG YOU AS A TERRORIST

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by Martin Ott Image source: popdecay . Source for the 50 words in the poem: Business Insider: Australia . His impatient mother would...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

WITHOUT A NET

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by David Chorlton ( Reuters ) - When daredevil Nik Wallenda caught sight of the taut cable stretched over the yawning chasm of the Grand...
Friday, June 21, 2013

YOU SENT ME TO KILL OR BE KILLED

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by Roger Aplon Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the enigmatic figure at the center of the worst American war crime in recent memory, admitte...