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The Great Leap Forward

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) During the Great Leap Forward Yang Jisheng’s father starved to death— he says in his recent book that it seemed

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To President Obama

ERIC CHAET President Obama speaks at ANOCA I don’t believe you are a tyrant like Hitler, Stalin, Caligula, Franco, or Bashar Assad & I voted for you preferring that you

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This So-Called Writing

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Holbein the younger’s Erasmus This so-called writing that we do & reading & speaking, too the alphabet & all the

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The United States of Air: The Fear of Fat Camps

J.M. PORUP (get your free copy of this book here) Now the SS were the best of the best, the thinnest of the thin. We called them the Unpinchables. As in,

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Life Is A Boston Tea Party

JOHN BENNETT (reprinted from The Birth of Road Rage — find the book here) At MIT where Einstein used to be

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Old Grey Hat

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) I found this battered old grey hat on a street

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It’s A Cyrano De Bergerac World

JOHN BENNETT (reprinted from The Birth of Road Rage — find the book here) It’s a Cyrano De Bergerac world.

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The United States of Air: "Let’s Put America On A Diet!"

J.M. PORUP (get your free copy of this book here, or read another excerpt here) The Prophet campaigned on the slogan

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We Get Used To

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) We get used to the strangest things to birth &

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Interview: JM Porup Talks About the Global War on Fat & the Glorious Empire of Air

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Imagine the US being taken over by a zealous fundamentalist who announces a War on Fat. He calls himself the Prophet and orders all food destroyed. His

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