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Category: Human Interactions
A Slice of COVID 19 Quarantine,
for D. A. Rural folk seldom have neighbors pop by. I’m lucky one lives next to me. A great Dane lives with her A cat with me— We stay a crow’s call apart, safe inside. She tends the chickens daily at five. I feed the calico at that time. I greet her tossing feed “Hey, […]
Frontline “The U.S. of Conspiracy” Watch it Before you Vote. It’s Dope.
The United States of Conspiracy… This is some messed shit goin’ on in America. “Anna Merlan, a journalist who has covered conspiracy theories and misinformation for years, is blunt. “The conspiracy caught fire because people were uncomfortable with the idea of a Black president, and they were eager to believe any number of racist smears […]
Elegy for Phil
Phil Hayes was murdered in a public park His killer unknown, the imperfect stranger. The police said it was gang related, All his family knows is –He’s gone He sacrificed his life for a friend, That was like him, facing danger Stopping a fight, making peace He didn’t play a hero, he was one, A […]
Shades of America
Shades of America White Supremacy, where is it? What every American needs to know about White supremacy Interview with W. Kamau Bell on the Tonight’s Show W Kamau Bell, who is he? Feature image credits: (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
It Happened So Quickly
Light in a sapphire over exquisite wine campfire-light and shadows on a redwood grove, Daughter of Ceto naked in the ferns waterfall pouring behind you guarding the portals of Salmon Creek sun of all worlds our fiery heart Diablo winds coming in news of a fire somewhere, Big Sur summer. […]
Has It Really Come to This?
The story has been told and retold: Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]
Denial is Violence
Like the silence of those who deny the truth, the silence in Death Valley Nearly denies my being– It is a dreadful void, the white silence of my sister, the moon She is alien, empty, my sorrow, the hurt The Chaste Huntress bound and tied, her mouth taped shut While her own dogs tear and […]
Nosegay
What Chopin wanted most was to die in George Sand arms on his deathbed, all he got Was a nosegay of violets She left at his door When her daughter turned her away– People can be such shits. He wrote a friend on his deathbed, “She promised me I would die in her arms.” How did […]
Advice
I had my annual physical today and all was well. The Doc. asked if I had any concerns, I said “I need a strong pain killer for a broken heart.” He laughed, but I said, “I’m serious. Nothing but booze helps and that gives me a hangover. Can’t you give me something for it?” He […]
