Monthly Archives: March 2024

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL OF PASSAICH by Peter Nolan Smith

March 27, 2024 – 9:11 am

When Cecil B. DeMille released THE TEN COMMANDMENTS in 1956 and it was an immediate box office success, earning the cinematic retelling of Exodus over $180 million dollars. In 1962 Paramount Pictures re-released the film for screenings at drive-ins across the nation and my father loaded my five brothers and sisters into our Ford station […]

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Happy Purim

March 24, 2024 – 9:18 am

Five years ago I wandered through West 47th Street looking for a job. No one was interested in hiring a goy on Purim and my Hassidic friends cajoled me into having a drink with them. “Whiskey is kosher.” They poured a good measure of Scotch into a glass. “Shalom.” I clinked glass with the religious […]

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Drinking With Golem 2020

March 23, 2024 – 5:04 pm

Facing the New Year. 2020 I may be moving to Paris A poetry career, Unless I get a teaching job in Nunavut An Arctic Capitol. I possess No commercial sell-out Bad grammar Even worst typing skill achieving defectum sin laude Or failure without praise Leading to exile from a room without scent of females Like […]

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A Wet March Saturday

March 23, 2024 – 4:58 pm

Saturday March 23 Snow up north of Albany Slush on Warren Street In Hudson And the hard rain Done in Brooklyn Fingertips feel like winter Toes warm in good boots The streets shed of people Awaiting Tomorrow’s Warm Palm Sunday.

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December 16, 1978 – East Village – Journal

March 23, 2024 – 8:59 am

A Pleasant Paradise 1963 Snipers murdered JFK 1968 A sniper kills Malcolm Luther King. Gunmen assassinate Malcolm X and RFK Out leaders dying before their time Before their replacements Richard Nixon betrayed the USA But kept coming back The Messiah of the Silent Majority Why did you live? When so many others died. Almost sixty […]

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