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Made Graceful - … things are never that simple … This is from ‘The Bestiary of Marianne Moore’ found in The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino, translated by Patr...3 hours ago
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The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence - What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and great vulnera...23 hours ago
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The Easy Life on Cruise Control - Life is so damn easy for me. I don’t have to plan for the future because Evangelical preachers say Armageddon is coming. Until then, conservative politici...1 week ago
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Barbara Sabol and Erica Reid named 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year - The Ohio Poetry Day Association has selected *Barbara Sabol* and *Erica Reid* as our 2024 Ohio Poets of the Year. Congratulations to these two amazing wr...4 weeks ago
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Stay away from the pool - My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the commun...1 year ago
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In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP - We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...1 year ago
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Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very large new section and a long memoir. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/While-Undertaker-Sleeps-Peter-Johnson/dp/1952335590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=342C90A7P3DZE&keywords=While+the+Undertaker+Sleeps&qid=1685616911&sprefix=while+the+undertaker+sleeps%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1 - The post Big day today with the publication of my While the Undertaker Sleeps: Collected and New Prose Poems. It contains all of my books, plus a very la...1 year ago
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“In spite of all the learned have said ...” - Philip Freneau Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...3 years ago
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Lit Youngstown Hosts Heather Dobbins & Barbara Sabol - I closing in on scheduling Lit Youngstown's 2021 First Wednesday Readers Series, and we're soon hosting the last reading of 2020. It's one of the many...3 years ago
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Jason Tandon - Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the Hec...4 years ago
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Announcing the 7th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards Winners - Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Annual Self-Published E-Book Awards! Grand Prize Steel Hand, Cold Heart by Rachel Menard (rachelm...4 years ago
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How to Be a Tree out now - it’s here! https://zaphos.itch.io/how-to-be-a-tree Advertisements5 years ago
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the dance of conquest is going to have to wait | museum of memory - . [image: Refugee, Tzasac, Guatemala, 83 | by Marcelo Montecino] *Refugee, Tsazac, Guatemala, 83*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 6 September 2014 [image: R...6 years ago
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Feeding therapy FINALLY!! - There is so much to catch up on and yet so little. I have noticed that the last year has felt like an inward journey and so telling a story hasn’t fe...6 years ago
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Let Yourself Be Awesome: On Overcoming Disappointment - On Saturday, I completed my first 12-mile run since 2005, and I aced it. My overall pace was 8:02 per mile, but the final two miles were in 7:44 and 7:49--...7 years ago
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Voices in Italian Americana reviews Paola Corso’s “The Laundress Catches Her Breath” - Paola Corso’s poems about women’s work and lives bring to life an intimate and fragile world without a hint of sentimentality. Take “Step by Step with the ...7 years ago
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One year gone ... - *Meeting Mark Mothersbaugh* Today marks one year as editor of *Fresh Water *for me. Man-o-man, what a ride it has been. Despite the intensity of the job, o...7 years ago
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I'm still here - Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending time away f...8 years ago
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2015 Mini Gift Guide - A mini last-minute gift guide...it's been quite some time since I've posted. But I love the holidays so much and sharing gifts that I think would be great ...8 years ago
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In a Landscape - The Playlist - John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...10 years ago
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The Scarlet Trader
They seek him here, they seek him there, but He, mercurial in his hurtling skivvies
....striding
high there, how he rung upon the rein of a volatile wing
in his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
as a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and glide in naked shorts, selling
shares he hasn't borrowed, or doesn't intend to borrow, or even phantom shares that don't exist, but hey!
who cares! It's ALMOST technically legal, the chutzpah of the thing, the arrogance, the selfish power!
in this eery aerie, frenetic stratosphere
shadow world of postponed promises, borrowed time, obscured
paperwork, nail-biting price-watching, high-tension days swirling around the decline of a company,
in shorts
it's always time for a naked swoop
-- the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, seeking
here a million, there a million, a million on the air, a million million million everywhere!
I love it, Tom!
They'll always be too slow to catch up with The Scarlet Trader, what with all those devilish costume changes.
Naked short selling -- in tight pants!
Sometime during the late '60's, Abbie Hoffman and some of his cohorts went to the visitors' gallery at the NY Stock Exchange, and they emptied a paper bag full of money onto the stock exchange floor.
It was a kind of guerrilla conceptual art thing, about the value of and obsession with money.
Not sure if much of the concept penetrated the minds of the stock traders. I always thought it would have been more interesting to first tear the dollar bills in half, and drop the halves of paper money onto the trading floor.
That way, if any of the people wanted to have two halves of the same piece of money (to be able to actually spend it), they would have had to set aside their usual aggressive competitive selves, and start talking to each other and cooperating and working together. (Either that or in trying to grab the right half of a piece of money their competitiveness would have gone right off the deep end...)
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