Poems
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Journalists Are Our Poets
So lately I’ve been trying to focus on propagating and really explaining just a few core ideas that I have. One of them is Open Source Emergency Response. Another is the idea that journalists are our poets. Since my late teens, I have identified myself as an American Poet. It has been a central point…
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Trut
Complete text of my 1997 essay, “Trut: The Star, The Globe, and the Missing H in the New Veracity“ So every once in a while I coin a new term or phrase. No one ever notices a whole lot, as this weblog is not exactly slashdot or metafilter, but the coining continues apace. As far…
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Oba Maja, Poet
Oba Maja Mural Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Oba Maja is a street poet here in Chicago. He stands at the corner of North, Milwaukee and Damen & hawks his wares– photocopies of handwritten poems. One day he told me that someone had done a mural of him at Lake & Damen. Lo and…
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What I Learned on LaSalle Street
1/ Dress Barn is making a big bet on tweed this Spring2/ Icarus is still flying way too close to the sun
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Seen From Afar on the Blue Line
Circa 5:40 PM, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 He moved through the train like a mouse doused in Tabasco might travel through a snake—-the skin of the train-people bulged and parted for him, with scrunched faces. He had the floppy style of a late-middle aged businessmanwho had gotten drunk all afternoon and was now trying to…