Poems
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Section 60
Section 60, originally uploaded by juggernautco. This image and caption from the New York Times today, Memorial Day, is a horror story to me. A crushing, intimate, stunningly obscene image of a young woman laying on her fiance’s grave, on the patchy starved grass, hair up in a bun, bottle of water near. Jean jacket…
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Apparently You Can’t Kill 7 People Before Midnight and get Away With it in Palatine, IL
So a little more than a decade ago I wrote a verse essay called, "Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction". One of my obsessions at the time was the Brown’s Chicken Massacre, where 7 people were killed in a suburb of Chicago as they were closing a fast food restaurant. It…
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Aging Conventioneers
Despite falling to #3 convention city last year, Chicago is still the host to lots of out-of-towners with lanyards. In a few weeks we’ll be host to the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit from the American Society on Aging (ASA) and the National Council on Aging (NCOA). Summit highlights include topics like, “What do boomers…
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Buy “Economics” With Google Checkout
Today I was investigating Google Checkout for a client and I signed up for it as a test. Setting up an account is the usual easy user experience we’ve come to expect from Google. No fuss, no muss. I set up a “Buy Now” button for my book, Economics. Go ahead and “Buy Now”– $10. …
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In Poetry News Today
I’ve joined the following: Hi. Am Nikhil Parekh, a poet from India. I’ve always believed that there’s a poet in each one of us and each beat of our passionate hearts, irrespective of howsoever commercial be our exteriors. I am on a mission here at this community in Orkut to make it the “World’s Largest…