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The Two Party System [by Walter Carey]
The Republicans are likea drowning manwho pulls downhis rescuer thinkinghe's pulling him to safety and the Dems are likethe girl on the shorewho pulls downher boy-cut hipsterswhen no one's watching — Walter Carey
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Always Politically Incorrect [by Walter Carey]
My thanks to Stacey Harwood and David Lehman for inviting me to blog my thoughts from time to time. . . . . I am proudly contrarian. You tell me the conventional wisdom and…
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Bleaders, I have missed you. You ver always on mine mind. Terrific poet Anthony Madrid [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, So good to talk to you again! Much have I traveled in the realms of gold – though not overland, nor by sea. Just Brooklyn and the realms of gold. Still, many goodly…
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In Defense of Bob Dylan? [by D.L.]
(Ed note: In a file of rejected letters to the editor from 2011, this epistle emerged. It was never published, perhaps because of the editors’ not unreasonable suspicion that the undersigned was either a…
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“Twenty Questions” [by David Lehman]
Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason That Achilles died young? Who gets more fun out of sex, The man or the woman? (Be sure to explain…
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Friday February 21st: i pocket a tangerine [by Julia Cohen]
This is my last day with you! And it’s already late afternoon. I’ve been in meetings and then working on a syllabus for Experiments in Literature for the CCC system here. Sorry. There is…
