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FIRE REPORT FROM DUFUR, AUGUST 3 2018
by Penelope Scambly Schott In the kitchen of the school cafeteria Becky and I stood at a makeshift counter slicing 140 heads of romaine lettuce to…
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THE MONSTER
by Rick Mullin on the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein* for Roald Hoffmann My fame is your reflection. I am known as Frankenstein. W…
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AUSSIE SLANG ISO POEM
by Ryan Stone Australians are inventing a slew of slang terms relating to the coronavirus pandemic, with hand sanitiser set to become known as sanny,…
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INTOLERANCE AFTERNOON
by Gary Glauber Starbucks Logo Mermaid Redesign by Cory Marino at Deviant Art No one wanted to wait on the mermaid. I couldn’t believe the rudeness. …
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POT AND KETTLE
by Jerome Betts Safety first: the many hats of George Osborne. Composite: Rex/Getty via The Guardian , June 5, 2016. “Welfare for Osborne was just a …
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HOUSE CLEANING REQUIRED
by Howard Winn They lifted up the corner of the Internet carpet and exposed the filthiness and rat droppings as well as ordinary dirt of life that i…
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A CHILD SPEAKS
by Jonel Abellanosa Amal Hussain, who died at age 7. “My heart is broken,” her mother said. Credit: Tyler Hicks/ The New York Times . Listen to ‘The …
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THINKING ABOT YOU
by Mary K O'Melveny “Consumer Robots Had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year” — Gizmodo , December 6, 2018. Photo: Alex Cranz ( Gizmodo …
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I'M TIRED OF CONFUSING WHAT I WANT WITH WHAT I DESIRE
by Michael Brockley Bibles with cherrypicked scriptures highlighted in red lay scattered along the culvert on my way to Casa del Sol. Border songs p…
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BREATHING IN FLORIDA
by Mickey J. Corrigan Fort Myers resident Wilson Cardenas tosses a cast net during sunset at Bunche Beach Preserve on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Saharan…
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DEATH OF A CHILD
by George Salamon Xavier Usanga was about 15 hours away from a new school year as a second grader at Clay Elementary when he was fatally shot Monday,…
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ON FACEBOOK
by Anton Yakovlev On Facebook, cats have been deemphasized. We only see them from our closest friends. You think they swarm you, but you’d be surpr…
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BASHŌ WOULD CRY, THEN . . .
A Tanka Anticipating Summer in Honor of Matsuo Bashō On the Occasion of Japan’s Three Mega-Banks Receiving All Fs on the 2017 Fossil Fuel Finance Rep…
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TREE OF LIFE GRANDPARENTS
by Matt Witt The poet's now-deceased grandparents Edna and Irv. Our olive tree when I was growing up: an icon in our Jewish neighborhood, easily …
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FOURTH ASTRONAUT
by Rick Mullin Painting by Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut (Apollo 12) to have walked on the moon. He died on May 26, 2018. “I think of myself not …
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