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ONE RPM by Peter Nolan Smith

July 29, 2023 – 10:33 am

PUBLISHED IN ELK 2006 February’s blizzards buried New York City with two-foot drifts and people conversed about Global Warming as a distant threat in comparison to Iraq. America was gearing up to war and nothing could stop the process, because the President was acting like a pit bull too stubborn to spit out the bone […]

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KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 2 By Peter Nolan Smith

September 2, 2021 – 5:41 pm

Two NYPD homicide detectives stood in front of the Vent du Sol. Uniformed officers kept the curious behind the yellow tape. Dead men attract spectators. The rubberneckers weren’t looking for the victim to come back to life, but waited to see if anything else out of the ordinary happened on this quiet Upper East Side […]

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AUGUST 15, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY

August 15, 2021 – 12:34 pm

I spotted Alice in a Greek dinner on 2nd Avenue. I sneaked inside and snatched her pocketbook. Her arm bent and she caught the straps inside her elbow. She has become more city than I imagined and swore, “You asshole.” I rubbed my hand. I had hurt my fingers on my attempted joke and sat […]

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I’m With Angela Davis Too

April 16, 2021 – 2:35 am

Angela Davis was the cover girl for the Black Panthers. She was and remains a true revolutionary. Now more than ever. But she was never alone. They fed the people. They spoke about freedom. They fought the pigs. RESIST. In the words of Bobby Sands IRA MP for Belfast – “Our revenge will be the […]

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Tupac Wants To Know Why

June 1, 2020 – 10:55 pm

“We (Black People) built this country and get none of the benefits! Why?” – Tupac Shakur Tupac, because capitalists are in the business of creating wealth. Back in the 20s and 30s the country was on a brink of a revolution and the government forced business to change their labor policies. The struggle through the […]

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