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How Life Can Be
Robert Kennedy was riffing on a line from a George Bernard Shaw play when he said:Some men see things as they are, and ask why?I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?Now that Kennedy’s son has made common cause with the sociopath in the White House, it’s a good time to think… Read more
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The year in review
From summer’s scorching suburban sidewalksTo winter’s withering wondering whyWe tried to convince the men with snoutsTo get their heads out of the troughAnd those who would turn the other cheekNot to worry about getting slapped aroundFrom spring’s eternal energyTo fall’s inevitable illnessWe informed the teetering trillionairesThat their days, like ours, are numbered Read more
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Be like the clouds
Be like the cloudsBe ready to dissolve at any timeBe ready to change your shapeOr fall to the earth in dropletsFeel the air that flows through you and around youFeel the sun on your face and the wind at your backWatch the worries of the world sinking beneath youAnd the glory of the stars rising… Read more
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S2L: Arise
I remember writing this song on the train ride home from work. There is a place between the University Heights and Marble Hill stations where the tracks curve to follow the bend of the Harlem River and the train gets its closest to the water. It was at that spot, on one of those Spring… Read more
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The end of social media
I stopped reading the news after the election. What could anyone say that would make sense of what we had done to our country? On January 19, Tik Tok posted the following message: The fact that Donald Trump was not the president at the time only added to subservience that people who ought to know… Read more
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an apartment somewhere
We were in an apartment somewhere, cold stone walls with muffled sounds bleeding through them. We were trying to keep quiet but failed spectacularly. There are sounds that can be contained and others that can’t: sneezes, groans, and laughter. You were telling a joke that wasn’t funny. That was the humor, how unfunny it was,… Read more
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