“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here Four more carted home yesterday afternoon, their silent promise the oldest continuous expectation of happiness in my life, and I had to stop and pick up one more reserved for me at the library, and then merrily away with a biography of Mozart and Jerusalem, two novels about desperate times in the South and one piece of reporting about returning veterans and the lives they struggle to restore. Meanwhile, I’m ninety pages […]
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You Can Listen Here Perhaps a figure materialized out of the morning haze and suggested that he had enemies and that they must be destroyed. Perhaps he hears disembodied voices telling him to pull out the Reynolds Wrap and begin framing the walls, ceiling and floor so that he can have one room safe from the presence of those sinister ‘others’, from the end times almost upon him. The Republican Party has become the ragged […]
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You Can Listen Here He had been standing in sheets of rain in the middle of the intersection late on this darkest of fall nights, perhaps disoriented, certainly adrift; the neighbor’s car veered from him. They called us a few minutes later, the phone possessing that anxious tone reserved for messages coming in after 10. Rain slicker on, treats in hand, I opened the door to see Christopher waiting patiently at the screen, tail […]
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You Can Listen Here Extend your hands in front of you. Raise them above your head. Flowing through your fingers, your bones and lungs is the master foundation of the world. All around you, invisible as spirits, money surges in streams of data driven between cell towers. Humming in long cables underground and undersea, in lines along streets that actually vibrate with the energy of transmission, dollars and renminbis, euros and yens travel at […]
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