Monthly Archives: May 2018

The Lady Stag Boosters…

Posted on May 31, 2018 by JMN

The Lady Stag Boosters were gonna bring the molded salads for the Stadium Fund money raiser; the Antlerette moms would do the casseroles. Mustang Mart would donate sweet tea. Things looked hunky dory until Hollie Jean Burmeister told Rose Ellen … Continue reading →

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The System

Posted on May 28, 2018 by JMN

This is the SYSTEM the FATHERS built. These are the COURTS that rule in the SYSTEM the FATHERS built. These are the JUDGES who bench the COURTS that rule in the SYSTEM the FATHERS built. This is the PREZ who … Continue reading →

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Best Wishes, Rita Dove

Posted on May 27, 2018 by JMN

Well, my mama didn’t raise a bean counter. I have better things to do — like trying to sit down and write a good poem, for example. (Rita Dove) I have high hopes for the sitting- Down part of your enterprise. … Continue reading →

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Purloining from Poe

Posted on May 27, 2018 by JMN

“You might have spared yourself this trouble,” said Dupin. “D***, I presume, is not altogether a fool, and, if not, must have anticipated these waylayings, as a matter of course.” “Not altogether a fool,” said G***, “But then he’s a … Continue reading →

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PLOG

Posted on May 27, 2018 by JMN

PLOG – Poetry Log (Started 25 April 2011) These are the flags: Code Mauve, Code Beige, Code Gray. Code Mauve: I can understand the poem’s language and can make sense of what the language describes or asserts. This can produce … Continue reading →

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“Go ahead, make my tea”

Posted on May 27, 2018 by JMN

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They Spy With Their Little Eye

Posted on May 25, 2018 by JMN

The exoplanet Kepler-twenty-two-B Has temperatures designed for you and me. (“What is an exoplanet?” you might say. It’s one outside our system, far away.) Pools of liquid water could exist there, So life just might be able to subsist there. … Continue reading →

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The creepiness of the creepy

Posted on May 24, 2018 by JMN

We become benumbed and resigned to it. Around 2011, it dawned on me that things I mentioned in personal emails, and the objects of my searches, would crop up in online advertisements. First I was mystified, then stupefied. My online … Continue reading →

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“William James…”

Posted on May 23, 2018 by JMN

“William James described consciousness as the “alternation of flights and perchings,” suggesting that we tend to overvalue the “perchings,” the nouns or the primary verbs in a sentence that steal the spotlight from the little words, like ‘in,’ ‘and,’ ‘but,’ … Continue reading →

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“To be invisible…”

Posted on May 23, 2018 by JMN

“To be invisible is to be forgotten… To be a symbol, and an effective symbol, you must be vividly and often seen.” (Walter Bagehot, quoted by Gary Younge in The Guardian.) What propels me, a mildly reticent recluse, to put … Continue reading →

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