Category Archives: brooklyn

Gut Gemacht Berliners

March 22, 2024 – 2:13 am

A white flag has symbolized a call for truce or surrender since the Eastern Han dynasty Any combatants under this flag considered themselves safe from attack, although at the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, women, and children under the protection of a nearby fort were slaughtered by drunken US Calvary despite […]

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Myrtle Street Sunset Haiku

February 18, 2024 – 9:34 am

4:03 The sun drops behind a building Not sunset yet. Soon

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Billion Dollar Man

February 8, 2024 – 1:07 am

Published on 5/2/2010 I don’t own a television. My laptop provided most of the programming necessary for entertainment, although the online screen resembles that of an airline economy-class movie presentation. The only gap on my computer has been sporting events and I fill that absence by heading down to Frank’s Bar on Fulton Avenue. Last […]

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God’s Army So What

February 4, 2024 – 10:14 am

Last week a couple of dozen SUVs and pickups departed from Virginia for Texas to protest against the relentless waves of migrants overwhelming the southern borders. Their numbers have grown to a few hundred for a gathering of God’s Army in the small Rio Grande town of Quemado -population 162- were the words “Join the […]

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Sub Arctic Cold – Clinton Hill 2004

January 20, 2024 – 11:41 am

-10 Centigrade On Myrtle Avenue Me Warm within winter wear Old Sol 93 million miles away Solar waves on my face It’s real wintah Snow on the ground. Ice on the sidewalk A deep chill in the air. Cold No The sun warm on my face. Happy. Yes. I might not be ready For the […]

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