The Occupy Wall St. movement is inspiring to me. Today, it made me think of the promise of John Lennon’s, “Imagine,” and what it would sound like in the grammatical present tense. There is no Heaven. No hell below us. Above us only sky. All the people are Living for today. There are no countries. [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Imagine (Present Tense)
November 17, 2011
A poem in progress re. http://autos.aol.com/article/new-york-city-accident-insurance-fraud/
April 16, 2011
That’s not the story. That’s not even the story—The man you call a Fraud wasn’t thinking at the time about the insurance money he could collect when he Swerved to the side of the Bronx freeway at rush hour and ran out to help the truck driver who’d jack-knifed his haul. He wasn’t thinking about [...]
Wailing Women [media essay]
July 23, 2010
Short media essay on depictions of “wailing women,” or women in grief.
Versus
October 23, 2009
Olympics, border conflicts, and thoughts on man versus man.
