Category: ShortStory
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Slower Than Guns
Artists of the time were warning us of the toxic wasteland we were creating even back when Motown and pysodelic music were the rage, when Disco was beginning its rise. This song aired in 1970. Slower Than Gunsby Iron Butterfly Can you feel the manmade mistAs it starts to twist your lungs?Slower than guns Breathe…
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The Road
The Road NeverendingTransformingFrom 12 lane highwayTo barely visible dirt pathBut neverending Runs throughThe countrysideVillages, towns, and metro-climesAnd back again Filled with wayfarersBound for who knows where Like the oneExtending throughAll sentient lifeRoots, trunk, limbs, and twigsConnecting us to the Universe We are all but wayfarersAnd most, unaware, on The road –LE – 4/30/26 PS: To…
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Morning Ride On Cinco De Mayo
Morning Ride On Cinco De Mayo the gentle, penetrating overnight rainfinally ended just after sunrise heavy clouds kept the humidity highwhile the air was chill for my three hour ride standing water dappled the washesand riverbed, gullying in one edge or the otherand the trees and shrubs wereiridescent in vibrant shades of greenwhile new Brittlebush…
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Happy Cinco de Mayo
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Celebrating the defeat of a French army by an ill-equiped and smaller Mexican force, ending French colonial intervention in the state of Peubla, Mexico… It has become a major holiday in both Puebla and in the US…
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The Kent State Massacre, 56 Years Ago Today
56 years ago today, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on college students at Kent State University, Ohio, protesting Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia. They murdered 4 and injured 9 or 10 other students. This was not the only incident of governments in the US using military personnel to intimidate and ultimately kill people exersizing their…
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The Compass
What gives you direction in life The flow of the universe as it moves through me, the ecosystem, of which you and I and every other living being are integral parts, a continuity of life, its causes and effects, that IS the universe … we are… –LE
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The Dry Season
The Dry Season Dust and sandIn the dry riverbed Cover grasses and shrubsReturned to dormant colorsFlaxen, dull greens, and pale browns No rain or even much dewHumidity all but gone sinceThe latter days of March, too Eager for the coming monsoonsHopefully, before the end of June Spokesmodels, the weather-modelsPredicting imminent rain40%, 60%, 80% chance they…
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Save Our VA – Tucson May Day Protest
Save Our VA – Tucson May Day Protest Four of us held the line this May Day from 6:30am-8:30am at the Ajo gate for the morning shift change. We received even more responses than we have in the previous couple of weeks, between 85%-90%, of those I could see (some had windows so darkly tinted…
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How Fortuneate The Man With None
How Fortunate the Man With Noneby Dead Can Dance You saw sagacious SolomonYou know what came of him,To him complexities seemed plain.He cursed the hour that gave birth to himAnd saw that everything was vain.How great and wise was Solomon.The world however didn’t waitBut soon observed what followed on.It’s wisdom that had brought him to…
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Enigmas
Enigmas no matter how many timesmy motivations explainedthe essence missedor simply ignored intentions assignedexpressions translatederroneouslynot mine other’s agendas creditedas mine, though notarticulated inmy mind – at all what, howmeanings missedaccidentlyintentionally no one listenshear what they want towhat they’ve beenconditioned to interpretation byassumption enigmatic –LE
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