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Larry Thacker | Those kids
And the kids shrug and roll their eyes and cause us older and wiser types to roll over in our future graves with their lack of knowledge of the great World Wars and the Greatest Generation, those...
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Anna Marie Alkin | Awakening from the nightmare
WE ARE A BODY DIVIDED. Our recent election was the collective dream of a body divided into red states vs blue states, cities vs rural areas, whites vs people of color, and lower income vs. upper...
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Rachel Kann | I see you
Hey you, With the stern eyes, Behind which you try to hide that fat little Sterno-can heart. I see you. Your incendiary gelatinous mess of yes-ness glows right through you, Throbbing in fabulous...
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Garrett Rowlan | Eve’s Apple
WHEN THE CONFERENCE ENDED, Eve left the hotel’s windowless room and refused a man’s invitation to have a drink. He was bald, overweight, and anyway she didn’t feel like being picked up. Her headache...
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Bob Findysz | Mostly I am alone…and Brothers
Mostly I am alone Though surrounded by people, engaged, enraged, enveloped by fellow travelers on bustling boulevards and byways in a compact country — mostly I am alone with thoughts, dreams. I might...
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Cristina M.R. Norcross | Three poems
Send the Shadows Packing There are shadows moving freely now. Something has been uncovered and unleashed. Disrespect, aggression, hatred. It has been given permission to walk and talk amongst us. When...
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Video from KarmaTube: “Trust.” Karim Sulayman is an Arab-American tenor from Chicago. Ten days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger to...
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George H. Northrup | Not sure we WERE made for these times
Late Stage American Hegemony Young hippies who rebelled by getting high, growing wild hair, and levitating the Pentagon are in their sixties now— gray-haired grandparents hoping the Establishment will...
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Thomas Atkinson | Ruint Horse
I WAS SITTING in Miss Jerolee’s Trims ‘n Tans. It’s my grandma’s beauty parlor, my mom’s mom, and everybody calls her Miss Jeri, or just Jeri. Even me if anybody’s in earshot ‘cause she says she don’t...
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An unprecedented opportunity | An interview with Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rev. angel Kyodo williams is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, spiritual maverick, author, activist, and founder of CXC (Center for Transformative Change), in Berkeley, California, which is dedicated...
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