Category Archives: Mild-mannered opinion

disposable

Digging in an old chest in the attic I came upon some items of a bygone era: a dozen linen handkerchiefs a straight razor with soap mug and brush a bag of carefully folded dust rags a clothing brush. I … Continue reading

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perspective

We are too clean the engaged appendix erupts because it is under-worked by our too clean world This explains how someone living in a mud hut can go a lifetime without medicare Who would have thought all those years ago … Continue reading

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thud—thoughts on a found poem

Cornwall Ontario Canada A city with a world of possibilities Un monde de possibilités <The city’s newly minted motto The full open bellows of the earth have sung, and now all poets may repose in sleep; for experts have the … Continue reading

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