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Eating Poetry – Mark Strand (National Poetry Month)




Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. The librarian does not believe what she sees. Her eyes are sad and she walks with her hands in her dress. … Continue reading

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My Father’s Wedding – Robert Bly (National Poetry Month)




1924 Today, lonely for my father, I saw a log, or branch, long, bent, ragged, bark gone. I felt lonely for my father when I saw it. It was the log that lay near my uncle’s old milk wagon. Some … Continue reading

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Daisy




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What “Occupy Wall Street” means to me – and probably to you.




So there’s a lot of yammering out there about OWS, and what it means, or doesn’t mean, and even some opinions that OWS protestors are less grateful than a panhandler, and perhaps more immoral, too, since they are capable, presumably, … Continue reading

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I’m not saying he’s a despot, but perhaps there are common personality traits…




Observed:                 No comment required, really.

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Might could dust off this little gem of Molly Ivins’:




The single most common misconception about [the Texas governor] is that he has been running a large state for the past six years. Texas has what is known in political science circles as “the weak-governor system.” You may think this … Continue reading

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Treasuries: Here we go again?




Via “The Marketplace Morning Report:” JEREMY HOBSON: Global stock markets are still excited about what the Federal Reserve said yesterday afternoon. That interest rates for banks that borrow from the Fed will remain near zero percent for the next two … Continue reading

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WWJRS?




Pretty sure if John Rawls asserts a good economy should benefit this at the bottom at least as much as those at the top (latest booms haven’t), then he would also assert that working our way out of a downturn … Continue reading

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On the debt ceiling




Via NPR: Raising the debt ceiling “simply authorizes Treasury to pay the bills Congress chose to incur when it passed years worth of spending increases and tax cuts that are now law.” So Congress voted for programs and tax cuts … Continue reading

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Endings and beginnings




Today is our last full day in the house on Marblehead. I’ve lived in that home longer than any other. Tomorrow begins our new adventure. Thursday we alight in our new home. I just finished my first trilogy in years. … Continue reading

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