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Of Course - … The truth is the whole. Of course, we cannot really see the whole … This is from Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture,...11 hours ago
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Something in You Hungers for Clarity: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Writing - “Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on,” Mary Shelley wrot...4 days ago
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Last Exit Open Poetry Readings Announced - Early 2025 in Kent - From our friend RC Wilson:4 days 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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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...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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Proof of Life - Um, hello? Is this thing on? I am writing from the Central Time Zone, as we have officially moved to Oxford, Mississippi for the academic year! And I have ...5 years ago
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Another Visit to DeLasalle Middle School at the end of March - About sixty sixth graders read The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez at DeLasalle. I went to visit, and their questions were excellent. They all wish there...5 years ago
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Lana K. W. Austin - Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3, Appalachia...5 years ago
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Window (The Disappeared Grandchild) | blackout: venezuela in collapse | Joseph Ceravolo: Migratory Noon - . [image: El Salvador, 1974 | by Marcelo Montecino] *El Salvador, 1974*: photo by Marcelo Montecino, 3 September 2010 [image: Morgue, San Salvador, 82 | ...6 years ago
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The translucent veil of life - Haha, so the truth comes out. Having 2 children is A LOT more work than 1! I haven't been able to get out of the rocking chair more than a few moment...6 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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On the move - *Gal about town, photo by Bob Perkoski* Dear readership, Your humble hostess has been doing a whole lot of what is depicted in today's photo: walking aro...8 years ago
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Strawberry Month - The strawberry sweets at Lagusta's Luscious this month are insane! I missed out last year and decided that this year I would take full advantage. I luck...9 years ago
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AWP in Minneapolis, and recommended reading - Again I've been away from this blog longer than I'd intended. Much busy with writing, and reading, and life in general. I'll be attending the annual AWP co...9 years ago
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Remixing the World's Problems Results - The one thing about judging poetry is that it often takes me much longer than I expect. For everyone who has waited so patiently for me to get these result...9 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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