Waving the False-Flag

“There was an exodus of birds in the trees ’cause they didn’t know we were only pretending and the people all looked up and looked pleased and the birds flew around like the whole world was ending.” -Ani DiFranco, “Independence…

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Postcards of the Hanging

Yes, I received your letter yesterday about the time the doorknob broke. When you asked me how I was doing was that some kind of joke? Late afternoon rushing down the steps for the train whose destination I can only…

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Did I Miss a Memo?

No one came in to San Francisco today. The train felt almost post-apocalyptic. Of course not a real apocalypse. How could the trains still be running after a real apocalypse? And there would be no others aboard rather than the…

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