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 I have been grateful all my life to observe as a people through all kinds of inclement weather…. whenever as individuals we are bruis... [read more] |
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I wished we as a people were able to see How the way we label ourselves causes nothing but commotion…. How as individuals we are a dr... [read more] |
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Black…white…straight…L G B T Q Christian…Muslim…Catholic…Atheist and Jew Labels can be beneficial when we use them to help gui... [read more] |
 "Weapons of Mass Distraction" Screens glow like altars. We kneel, thumbs twitching prayers to gods of noise. The... [read more] |
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We rise from the ashes, rebuild what was torn, Plant seeds of compassion where new hope is born. The cracks in the pavement c... [read more] |
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Would they laugh at the irony, two legends sharing a stool, Trading tales of prophets, tyrants, and the stubbornness of fools. ... [read more] |
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The Cost of Pretense You polish the mask until it blinds you. The mirror smiles back, but no one else does.... [read more] |
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I believe your souls were already compromised and rotten, even then---in nineteen seventy. I hope your full names have been cursed to be utt... [read more] |
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We begin with simple words, not heavy with symbols or riddles, just a steady rhythm of voices gathering in one place. Th... [read more] |
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S., clad in polo shirt and "skinny"-style jeans, takes his wet shoes off before entering your apartment, V. His sky blue socks glide a... [read more] |
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Your telephoned invitation, for which he has been devotedly waiting, arrives on the fourth day after his legally consensual birthday. ... [read more] |
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Starwatcher was like a safe and welcoming shelter from the "Fairy Jerry" imposed by this world's homophobic dread: given in July of 'Seventy... [read more] |
 The situation's bad, getting worse by the hour Trump wants to invoke his emergency power Which he thinks he can, under the Act I... [read more] |
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to the Poet, on their inviting words Your words unfold like a quiet lantern, casting light without demanding notice. They remi... [read more] |
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The Good Poem Gone Bad / The Bad Poem Gone Good The “good” poem builds its cathedral, arches of meter, stained‑glass rhyme.But... [read more] |