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about people who are not facing the here and now, but have to be there and then on cell phones and ipods

Poets: the new novelists

The Internet is rewiring our brains, according to Nicholas Carr’s July/August 2008 Atlantic Monthly article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”—I agree with Carr. Carr’s thesis is that hypertext links, like the one in the previous sentence, which give us instant … Continue reading

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hesi—

There are dreams I could conjure in these lines— walk on Mars kiss a willing stranger wear a diamond drive a Maserati cut a throat— but blood dictates another course: And so I will not kiss you Princess nor bind … Continue reading

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trial balloon

And it came to pass that the Emperor of the land of cAnAdA did so decree that there should be built at the top of the Golden Mountain an wondrous huge sack of leather that should contain the warm winds … Continue reading

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