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A No Hemlock Rock (don’t kill yourself) [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Shine On Crazy Jade Don’t kill yourself. Don’t kill yourself. Don’t. Eat a donut, be a blown nut. That is, if you’re going to kill yourself, stand on a street corner rhyming seizure with…
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“Song” [by Edwin Denby]
Song I don’t know any more what it used to beBefore I saw you at table sitting across from me All I can remember is I saw you look at meAnd I couldn’t breathe…
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Cri de Coeur [by Jim Cummins]
Oy vey, my country! I would sob if it weren't such … an American crisis: goofy, headstrong, distracted, with a bunch of old men in dark suits running around looking for their mommies. And…
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A Poem by Alison Hawthorne Deming [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Here’s a poem I love: Essay on Intelligence: One by Alison Hawthorne Deming The female digger wasp maintains several burrows for developing offspring. As the day begins, she visits and inspects each tunnel determining…
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Cubs versus Dodgers: Game Two [by Peter Ferry]
There are six of us (four Democrats, two Republicans, all Cubs fans) in a cottage on the beach near South Haven, Michigan, and the waves are breaking hard on the sand outside. We’ve come…
