Tag: one
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Mickey Rooney 1920-2014
Just got the news. Thanks for all the Christmas–you’ll always be Santa to me.
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War Poems For National Poetry Month: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est
Panama…then Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afganistan–right or wrong, for causes both just and cynical, we’ve been in an exhausting, nearly constant state of war, however distant and vaguely defined, since I graduated from High School in the 1980’s–and that was just a few deep breaths after the war in Viet Nam/ Cambodia/ Laos that…
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Jesus Leave Me Be
I try to be a tolerant guy. I don’t care what color you are, what country your parents came from, who you love nor–once I’ve gotten to know you–who you voted for. I won’t pretend those differences don’t exist: race, gender, orientation–all that stuff–is fascinating baggage to dig through, preferably over a drink, if for…