Dear Dirty America

Fiction & Poetry

How I’ll Make My Way

ERIC CHAET How I’ll make my way, I can’t say— but I’ll make my way, until my way is made. I don’t know what I can trade that the deceivers

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Let’s Look At America Without Expectations

ERIC CHAET (a so-called poem) Let’s look at America without expectations without always being shocked that it’s not like we were taught in elementary school that it’s not like so

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Maintenance

ERIC CHAET “Andromeda IV (PGC 2544) dwarf galaxy by Hubble space telescope. Star to the left is TYC 2801-551-1 with apparent magnitude 10.3” (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called

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Obscure Romans

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Which of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire when Rome was at war with the world & ruled by a

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No One Listens to Poetry

Jack Spicer: This ocean, humiliating in its disguises Tougher than anything. No one listens to poetry.    The ocean Does

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Disaggregation

DISAGGREGATION by Eric Chaet (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems)Aggregates are piled up all around me & across every path

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Beauty Will Save the World

DONALD O’DONOVAN Los Angeles (excerpt from O’Donovan’s novel Night Train) I went to the blood bank on Florence. They pay forty-five

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To Just Sit, Awhile

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900) To just sit, awhile. I dream of making my coffee as

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Humanity

ERIC CHAET Credit: Vergel Bradford (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Where has humanity come from? Where is

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Traffic Starts Rumbling

ERIC CHAET Credit: U.S. Dept. of Transportation (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Traffic starts rumbling outside my window before dawn first a train sounding its horn over &

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