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Journal Entry – Poetry – November 11, 1978 – East Village

November 10, 2024 – 3:52 pm

Kenya, the River Platte, Flanders Vienna, Istanbul, Berlin Versus Moscow, London, and Paris 1914 to 1918 An assassination in Sarajevo to the Treaty of Versailles World War I Machine guns, trenches, blood Airplanes, Zeppelins, blood Gas, barbed wire, blood Death in a thousand fields Verdun Gallipoli Tannenburg Emperors’ armies Nations’ will Men’s blood Victory and […]

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11-11-11-11-18

November 10, 2024 – 7:37 am

The Great War of 1914-1918 ended on the 11th minute of the 11th hour or the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. My grandfather and grandmother were in France, serving as doctor and nurse with the Royal Canadian Medical Expedition. They returned to Maine with German helmets, bayonets, zeppelin debris, and medals as […]

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The Fall of Berlin Wall 1989 – 2009

October 22, 2024 – 8:37 am

“Ich bin en Berliner.” These words were spoken by JFK before the grim barrier in 1961. I have stood at the wall in 1982. Its shabby concrete was graffiti-splattered on the Western side. The other side was a no-man’s land of mines, dogs, and guard towers. I had crossed over to East Berlin via Checkpoint […]

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Oct. 7 2024 – A Year Later

October 7, 2024 – 9:57 am

1900 Palestine was a province of the Ottoman Empire. The Arab armies liberated the Middle East with the British Army, but the provinces were divided by two English Arab experts. Straight lines drawn in the deserts. Peace ruled the lands, but the West had plans for the Levant. 1937 Nakba when the British defeated the […]

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Pre-Yom Kippur 2024

October 2, 2024 – 10:43 pm

I am not Jewish, despite having been circumcised at birth at Boston Lying-In. The doctors were Yankees. My birth certificate even denotes my having been mutilated in accordance with the Anglo-Saxon upper class beleiving that boys masturbated less without a foreskin. Idiots. We were told that this barbaric custom was for hygiene. Poof! Religious fanatics […]

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