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. Selling Short The winter wind’s a shot across your brow, An addend to the sense of deficit You wrestle...

. Phone Home I often talk to radio astronomers, The kind of guys who like to stay anonymous, Who chew...

. God Knows Tomorrow’s torched and trampled on the street. __We hear the battle cry Of demons dancing to the...

. Leopold and Loeb Or, the Consequences of Ideas A Frenchman’s thought-experiments Argued by Englishmen until A German stripped pure...

. The Devotee She moves from one devotion to the next, From this beloved statue to the text Of some...

. Surviving Caligula Setting: Caligula’s Palace, the Palatine Hill, Rome Date: 23 January 794 Ab urbe condita (41 A.D.) The...

. Love and Vipers for Harrison Butker, the football player criticized for supporting traditional views of women in a commencement...

. Memorial Day, 1984 2024 “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”  ---George Orwell Today we honor those...

. The First and Usually Unspoken Rule of Great Writing The greatest rule of writing is to tell A truth, the truth...

. Betrayal a villanelle Today she spied the shadow of a snake Slither through the spreading family tree--- A curse her startled...

. Eulogy to the First Ms. Brown or a Divine Comedy of Educators . To my aunt—the second daughter of...

. Newman, Alone Newman, thirty, alone, asleep in bed, Groans, yearning for his mother, years now, dead--- Alive, her vivid...

. Two Times Two Is Four Now Kierkegaard once wrote a book, __Entitled Either/Or, But for myself, I only know,...

. Unopened Letters Unopened letters strewn across the floor Addressed to me with your name on the back. Left where...

. The Cleft There’s danger for the harmless dove; she swoops Into the cleft of the great mountainside. Her heartbeat...

. Chelsea a true story from I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris “Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not...

. AI's Promise What is the latest ingenious ability makers have made out as mental agility? Smoothly unveiling the newest...

. He Lied About His Age 'Twas May of nineteen seventeen, our country now at war. Will had decided to...

. Saturn "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" —Shakespeare "According to medieval thought, the worst planet was Saturn, ...

. Rwanda, April 1994 Inside Nyamata Church the pews are piledwith clothes, the blood that drenched them dull and dry.What...

. Herman the Cripple A body helpless in deformity Was mine, though loving parents carried me Full seven years in...

. The Dead They’re pretty but the dopamine Has hollowed out their pale blue eyes. They sit there, staring, silent,...

. And Yet We Wash Our Hands When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, butthat instead an uproar was...

. Music by Jeff Eardley . Look Homeward, Sweet Afton after Robert Burns Look homeward, Sweet Afton, back to thy...

. S.W.A.M.P. Soulless, Warped, And Monstrous People look at us as smelly “sheeple.” Easily manipulated. Otherwise, we’re mocked and hated....

. Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the...

. Orpheus We want the heroes back so we can learn: Herakles smashed his way to hell and stormed By...

. 10/7/2023 More than one has risen up against us to destroy us. Rather, in every generation they rise against...

. On Scotland Police were inundated with over 7,000 calls in the first week following the passage of Scotland’s Hate...

. Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.”  (Actual dialogue...

. Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity They sacrifice true historicity, So DEI trumps authenticity. But Bridgerton and Netflix, they don’t care,...

. Reservoir Those who can still see through accreting years Are getting scarce, those who can lift such veil To...

. Carmen by Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) translated by Bruce Phenix Carmen is thin—a dark-brown line Of bistre rings her gipsy...

. Easter Evening Appearance Luke 24 Sealed up within my upper room, Absorbed by morbid discontent And fear, I questioned...

. May Songs . I. Where does loyalty take its rest? Where is charity’s portraiture, Except in you, sweet virgin...

. Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with...

. Lie Low, Jew! Echoes and Irony The Hamas flags are raised on London streets By swarms that seethe with scorn...

. How Many Wrongs Make a Right? The left rights wrongs by doing wrong, but wrongs so fixed don’t stay...

. On Student Protestations They protest on behalf of Gaza from afar— Why won’t they do the same regarding Myanmar?...

. Jerzy and Cyla Jerzy, a Polish teen in World War Two, Arrested for suspected membership Of the resistance, faced...