Dear Dirty America

Fiction & Poetry

The Survival Meal

JOHN BENNETT (reprinted from The Book of Shards)A little man lives in my head. He gives orders. He overrides considerations. He doesn’t take no for an answer. Right now he

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Anthem For Humanity

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Humanity! Humanity! Spiral thru the cosmic sea! Hues like stones & pottery, stunning truth & flattery! Some are drunk with

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125 Dollars A Year

DOUG DRAIME Your situation may not be ideal, but it could be worse If I can’t make a living at my art, am I selling my soul by working at

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At A Counter On A Cloudy Morning

    At A Counter On A Cloudy Morning

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) -for John Bennett I wake, cold. I don’t remember any dream. The ground’s frosty. I sit at a counter, drinking coffee.

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That Changes the Odds

ERIC CHAET   (excerpt from the preface of 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Justice. Kindness. Sanity. Toward these ends habilitation, fitness,

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Success After All

ERIC CHAET (please visit 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems for more) To fail in life, in competition for honors, wealth, power,

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Internal Exile

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) It’s not necessary in America to arrest those who would

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In The Crazy Thick Of It

ERIC CHAET(originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems)Psychopaths with charming cover storiesdominate our species-wide polis & economy—tho mainly we

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Being Smart

ERIC CHAET photo by: Digital Dream Society (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Many people I meet consider

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Venus of Willendorf: Who’s Our Symbol of Fertility?

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles In 1908 a man named Josef Veram discovered a statuette of a what seemed to be a female with enormous breasts, a pregnant belly, and

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