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“Tell Me If You’ve Heard This One” [by Susan Blackwell Ramsey]
Like puns, jokes and japes don't get nearly enough respect despite all the evidence Freud presented of their value as sources of knowledge and insight into the human psyche. I think of recent poems…
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History [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
History Even Eve, the only soul in all of timeto never have to wait for love,must have leaned some sleepless nightsalone against the garden walland wailed, cold, stupefied, and wildand wished to trade-in all…
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“Be Nimble” [by Todd Boss]
Be Nimble, be quick. Resemblea trick. Be tumble,be click. Be bumble-bee prick. Rememberyour work is a flammablewick in the candlestickwax of your ache. Wake.Be humble, but brash.Be gamble and cash.Be ramble and crash.Be cymbal…
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“When Insults Had Class” [by Terence Winch]
With thanks to Terence Winch, here are some well-turned insults from back in the day before the era of the ubiquitous four-letter word. Lady Astor: "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."Churchill:…
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“For Lehman’s Employees, the Collapse is Personal . . .”
A year has gone by. Last year it started on 08/08/08 and this year the echoes grew too loud to ignore on 09/09/09. A year ago Lehman, like Lana Turner in 1959, collapsed. This…
