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“Girl Reading a Letter” [by William Carpenter]
A thief drives to the museum in his black van. The nightwatchman says Sorry, closed, you have to come back tomorrow.The thief sticks the point of his knife in the guard's ear.I haven't got…
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Why People Go To College [by W. Kirschberg]
"If the universities demolish the humanities by undermining their relevance or their validity, the immediate effect is to promote ignorance and laziness among students; the long term effect is to put into question the…
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Thomas Devaney: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Thomas Devaney. Photo by Patrick Montero. _________________________________________________________________________ Oregon Ave You can’t find a place to smoke anymore Ro says, smoking…
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“Cats” [by James Cummins]
When Eliot wrote his thesis at Harvard,He said philosophers doing philosophy was “ridiculous”—That two thousand years of this insanity had gone onBecause they tried to explain existenceFrom the point-of-view of a platform outside it,Which…
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Ant and Clown (by Mitch Sisskind)
The Ant You could not call him the Ant to his faceAnd you would be dead if you made theMistake of calling him the Ant to his face.Or what if you called him the…
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Philip K. Dick [by Mitch Sisskind]
No telling what time it was As he woke in darkness with The sleeping cat’s warmth, A gift from God, on the back Of his neck and, weeping, He willed himself to perfect…
