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*** Jeff Cleek is a writer and cartoonist from the Colorado Springs area.
Writings
Who Is Going to Pay for the Wall?
“We’re going to build the Wall. Okay, believe me. So, we’re going to build it. It will be paid for. Who’s gonna pay for the Wall? Who is going to pay for the Wall?”
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Republicans, not Democrats, will turn America into a Socialist Country
Watching the devolution of the Republican party under Trump’s leadership has convinced me that Republicans, not Democrats, will turn America into a socialist nation. Before the trolls call me deranged, deluded, or worse, a closet Democrat, I propose a few premises that I think most Americans can agree on before presenting my argument. The first
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Naming Children for Life
Recently, my wife recorded a new greeting for our landline. Yes, we’re dinosaurs who still have a landline. Our phone company made upgrades to their system, forcing us to record a new greeting. I had to listen to it for the first time yesterday and hated it. She identified me as Jerry, a name I
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The Seeds of Thanksgiving
In May I poke eleven pie pumpkin seeds into dirt. I bless them into a star shape in that limed bed, another year. I wonder if I’ll be here at harvest. I haul myself up, grab onto a rusted scaffold for the vines to climb, drape into the summer winds, mingle with wrens. Glad to
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“Perfect purity is possible. . . .”
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” –Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
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