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Cri de Coeur [by Jim Cummins]
Oy vey, my country! I would sob if it weren't such … an American crisis: goofy, headstrong, distracted, with a bunch of old men in dark suits running around looking for their mommies. And…
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Who Will Stop the Mad Man? [by Lera Auerbach]
My mother was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. As Hitler's army marched East in 1941, my grandparents abandoned all their possessions (including their beloved library and cherished collection of…
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want [by Lewis Saul]
Fanny Robbins We addressed my maternal grandmother's sisters as Tante (tan'-ta), from the old country … Tante Fanny was a towering figure. After her husband's death, she took over his business — a wholesale…
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“Permanently” [by Kenneth Koch, born today]
Permanently, by Kenneth Koch One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.The next day a Verb drove up, and created the…
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Roger Reeves: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ Cyclops and Balthazar I was not a very good dog in my former life. I…
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Roger Reeves: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________ Cyclops and Balthazar I was not a very good dog in my former life. I…
