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Patterns

Fingers ache from pin prick sticks, patterns revealed. Food into mouth, insulin into stomach makes the poison fade. Every day this balancing act continues: test, eat, dose. Medications and carbohydrates — fate’s a mischievous mistress. Food into mouth, insulin into stomach makes the poison fade. People speak of getting high like it’s a game without

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Popsicles

Remember the hottest day ever— sweat open-faucet pouring over your kid head sweltering & miserable mouth huffing steam— when you heard the merry jingle from the ice-cream truck fingered $.25 pocket treasures swallowed hard & shoved-popsicle-push-up-unmannered-into-mouth tongue exploding sticky summer satisfied & suddenly— you never wanted that day to end? That is your top lip.

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Covid’s Choice: Corporate Socialism and Loss of Life or Democratic Socialism and Loss of Liberty

There are interesting moral and ethical questions that have been raised by some people, including the president, about death, the corona virus, and the economy. Simply put, the argument is about whether the economic pain caused by trying to slow the spread of the virus is worth the number of lives social distancing might save.

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