Forward Dmitri Ashkanov first crossed my path in the early 1990s at Nelson’s Books where he worked as a clerk. For a couple of years, we spent a fair amount of time together, in the bookstore and in the taverns and coffee shops down around van Buren. Dmitri didn’t bother with personal resumes when he […]
It happened in an afternoon: Ladders, nails and beer breaks. Dad even gave me a swig as a reward for my hard work and I promised not to tell. I gave Billy, Ben and John the password to enter the fortress with no half moon hammer dents embraced by limbs and branches. We were kings
Since 1903, Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus” has been displayed inside the Statue of Liberty. My generation was raised to be proud that our country welcomed tired, poor, huddled masses to our shores. We were required to commit the poem to memory, as a kind of summary of what America meant. In case it
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When rats drop off a sinking ship They don’t think, “This ship is sinking!” That thought would require an Einstein Of what passes for rat thinking. By then, they’re all around the bend, Dumbstruck or homicidal; They’d follow each other over a cliff, Like those Gadarene swine in the Bible. When the flood first showed
“Nothing Social Distances Like a Jeep!” (TV Message, 6/6/20) This baby knows nothing at all of shame. If he soils himself, his parent, diaper, bib, Look! New! Excrement added! he proclaims, Proud of the
In times like these in which we are all in it together and <it> is times like these which we are all in we, the international corporate corporation’s propaganda arm wish to extol to you who are all in it together with yourselves how deeply we care about you whom we have terminated in one
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