1 What would a sea slug do with a parasol?                     2 If I were to attempt to show you the contours of the grin of the wind would you make some hasty excuse to leave the premises and throw away my address and phone number? You might avert you’re gaze when [...]

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The devices employed in US election cycles and its national politics, in general, are akin to the dramatic conventions of children’s theatre. Every two to four years, voters are instructed to clap their hands and believe in Tinker Bell. “Children, you have to believe — you really, really have to believe in Tinker Bell.” But [...]

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Since, we buried you, last summer, in the baked, early August earth  — I have dreamed, night after night, of a bone white creature, with glinting eyes of Edenic green … offering me fruit, ripening in his fecund palms. Denizen of a deathless world — he brought news of you … news that you were [...]

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Given the level of cultural absurdity at large, both the commercially tormented landscape and the mass media dominated mindscape of the United States seem a Gogol goof-take. If a person had traveled forward in time, arriving from even the recent past, of say, twenty-five to thirty-years ago, and looked upon the present day United States [...]

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