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The Crest

    The Crest

ERIC CHAET originally published at SO-CALLED POEMS High above this or that autumn’s canopies of leaves & fruits the highest steeples, minarets, & transmission towers & rockets poised for launching beyond

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Neither Proud Nor Ashamed

    Neither Proud Nor Ashamed

ERIC CHAET (originally published at So-Called Poems) Being a poet, engineer, physician or farmer, grocer, builder plumber, electrician, programmer reporter, editor, professor, historian star performer, clerk, or artisan or judge

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Who Is Fittest?

    Who Is Fittest?

ERIC CHAET (first published at 100 So-Called Poems) Who is fittest? most capable?   Who sees, in a fragment of aggregate, all mass & forces— electromagnetic, phases, momentum, torque, transformation?  

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Remembering Doug Draime

    Remembering Doug Draime

I learned the other day through John Bennett’s email list that writer Doug Draime had passed away. He was 72 years old. His wife Carol wrote: Dear John, I am

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Donald O’Donovan’s Night Train Tunnels Through the Belly of the Great American Beast

    Donald O’Donovan’s Night Train Tunnels Through the Belly of the Great American Beast

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Within the first few weeks after I’d moved to Los Angeles, I was sitting outside

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In the Prophetic Essence of Visionary Courage, John Bennett Challenges & Incites with the Birth of Road Rage

    In the Prophetic Essence of Visionary Courage, John Bennett Challenges & Incites with the Birth of Road Rage

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles One of my favorite things to do these days is make a strong cup of

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Expressionless In Front of the Cathode-Ray Tube, Rather Than In A Rapt Audience

    Expressionless In Front of the Cathode-Ray Tube, Rather Than In A Rapt Audience

I’m not above splashing long Kurt Vonnegut passages on this blog when I see fit.I started reading Timequake on a whim. Like

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Where Is Our Whizbang Miracle?

    Where Is Our Whizbang Miracle?

I’ve been reading Vonnegut’s Timequake, and a few passages have intrigued me. Vonnegut reminisces about his favorite plays (that passage

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Do You Think They Show Every Newly Elected President the Zapruder Film?

    Do You Think They Show Every Newly Elected President the Zapruder Film?

Comedian Bill Hicks pondered on stage often about John F Kennedy’s assassination. “Do you think they show every subsequent president

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Book Review: Children of the Sun & Earth by John Bennett

    Book Review: Children of the Sun & Earth by John Bennett

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE (to find this and other John Bennett novels, visit Hcolom Press) In John Bennett’s novel, Children of the Sun & Earth, an intelligent, steady-nerved young man and

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