Poems
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Wherein I Walk Into a Bookstore in Boulder and Find a Copy of My Book from 16 Years Ago
Copy of Memo To All Employees Purchased at Red Letter Book Store, Boulder, Co., along with Poster and "Coming Soon" Sheet, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Every time I travel to another city, I locate the best used bookstores and go there so as to build my poetry book collection. I search for books under a…
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Fun With the OED: Who Knew that Wazoo was less than 40 years old?
It seems that the word "wazoo" was coined in the California Pelican magazine at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Thanks, OED! wazoo, n. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.). Show pronunciation* Show etymology* Hide quotations* Show date charts* 1. The buttocks; the anus. Freq. as a (euphemistic) substitute for ass in fig. phrases,…
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Jury Duty Poem
Cook County Criminal Courts Building, 2650 S. California When the time comes, near nine-thirty, the streets swell with nervous jurors testing cross-walks, and natty lawyers in full stride, and the tense families of the accused. And they do this daily. Imagine going to work every day where more than half the people have never been…
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VIDEO: “Make The Rich Pay”
A few years ago I did a post about a play that I wrote/ adapted from a play by Michael Gold called, "Strike!: A Mass Recitation". Lately I've been digitizing all sorts of audio cassette tapes and VHS video tapes in an effort to reduce clutter and get more organized. One of the things was…
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On Patriotism
I was one of the thousands of people who made it into the Grant Park celebration on Election Night. It was amazing, of course. One of the best days of my life, flat-out. One of the most touching moments for me, a moment when I thought the top of my head might float away as butterflies…