Death, with an ear to the tumbler Learning you, sleepless, learning
Read moreDetainees
Bound round with white twine The branches supplicate, A litter of needles scuffed Hither and yon by passing boots. Thirty dollars, Christmas tree, withstand.
Read moreto the hospital…
So Rebecca had a bit of bleeding last night and notified her doctor, who said she should not be bleeding at 28 weeks and should definitely be seen. Rather than wait til the morning, after putting Sevi to bed and getting the downstairs neighbor to come up and watch over her (which incidentally had her…
Read morepost-election exchange w/bro
Dear Kevin,I thought that this morning’s New York Times had several good pieces. The below sums it up best, however. I think we are facing in America a real rejection of the principles of the Enlightenment – precisely because so many Americans fear the more complicated “God” that Reason requires. Until that issue is addressed…
Read moreltr not sent re: Seamus Tansey
Re: The recent tiff in Irish Traditional Music Circles over Seamus Tansey, the flutist, pulling a King Lear on a young woman melodeon player he was scheduled to play with, who 1) didn’t provide a mic for him 2) told him to tune up, twice declaring he was “flat” 3) had never heard of him….
Read moredon’t fear jumping into the water
that is way more than half the battle in most things
Read morethe nader factor
I voted for Ralph last time and probably will this time, hopefully persuading a Ralph-leaning person in a swing state, which is what I did last time. I think there’s a better than 50% chance Ralph will be an even bigger spoiler for the Dems than he was last time, particularly tragic since he HAS…
Read moreThe “Entitlements” of Man
The corporate (and predominantly now Republican) agenda is to work to disenfranchise people from their rights as human beings. Yes, something that nefarious. Perhaps not realized in so many words, at least by most, but the move to define certain rights as “entitlements’ and to disparage that term, effectively disparages rights. Language co-opted in this…
Read morebloody grin
I won’t be caught grinning for not having tried.
Read moremanipulation
the refusal to manipulate, whether in convesation or acquaintance, has slowed you, made you ponderous, appear confused and to equivocate. The admixture of uncertainty, guilt, shame and the thought that you really ought to be politicking just makes you a grinner. get back to what was honest and worthy in all of this and strip…
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