Hey you, With the stern eyes, Behind which you try to hide that fat little Sterno-can heart. I see you. Your incendiary gelatinous mess of yes-ness glows right through you, Throbbing in fabulous thoracic iambic pentameter. Smile. You’re perfect. It’s simply resistance that precipitates your inner turbulence. Attachment is a tense drag. Loosen your grip on what is and Let in the limitless quantum eternal existence. Let the expired empire […]
Anna Marie Alkin | Awakening from the nightmare
WE ARE A BODY DIVIDED. Our recent election was the collective dream of a body divided into red states vs blue states, cities vs rural areas, whites vs people of color, and lower income vs. upper income peoples. With each line we draw, we dis-member ourselves. With each line we draw, we fall deeper into the nightmare. We are body divided, dreaming. Smashed and shattered, cut off at the roots […]
Larry Thacker | Those kids
And the kids shrug and roll their eyes and cause us older and wiser types to roll over in our future graves with their lack of knowledge of the great World Wars and the Greatest Generation, those great cold causes decades past. We wring our hands wondering why all the new teachers aren’t teaching what should be taught about war. Times have changed, people love to spout. Yes, they have, […]
John Feffer | Pulling the Lever for Doomsday
I DIDN’T VOTE in the pivotal American election of 2016. Thirty-five years ago, in that unseasonably warm month of November, I was in Antarctica’s Allan Hills taking ice core samples with a hand augur. The pictures I have from that time show my team drilling deep into the blue ice, but what we were actually doing was digging a million years into the planetary past to gaze upon the panorama […]
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