Please Go Away
I promise myself that, except for some parenthetical asides, this will be the last post I make about Donald J. Trump; this is what I think he was/is thinking <SIGH>
December 7, 2021
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I promise myself that, except for some parenthetical asides, this will be the last post I make about Donald J. Trump; this is what I think he was/is thinking <SIGH>
The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone—more familiarly, the ITCZ (called the “Itch”)—is a belt about 5 degrees north and south of the Equator. It is an area where the northern and southern
[Thanks to T. S. Eliot] What are poets good for? The 20th Century is not sure. Eliot thinks that by rights a poet should be useful: he ought to guard
I am pleased and honored to refer to these sites where my recent poetry has been published: The first two are at OPEN: The Journal of Arts & Letters, Jeff
I haven’t decided if this title should be emphasized this way—I am a writer—or this way—I am a writer. Of course, I could just give in to total emphasis and
When I was in college and introduced to T. S. Eliot’s poetry, I fell in love. Something in his words, the arrangement of his lines, the ideas simply snatched
“A bad penny always turns up.” Ugh. I mistakenly thought that Biden’s election would mean the end of the political insanity of the Trump Era, but no—it goes on, like
Creative writing—fiction, poetry—like any art starts, I think, with a “gift,” a talent, a desire to create sense and meaning out of our lives. It may start with a conversation,
If it is possible to have a “hero” as a writer, then I choose T.S. Eliot as mine. Now being called a “paleo-modernist” (as if he were some class of
You want to know who are the idiots, traitors, anti-democracy jerks who are siding with the liars (Trump), criminals (Texas Attorney General Paxton), and their enablers (too numerous to mention)?