A CERTAIN LOGIC
1. Nothing is certain.
2. Except paradox.
∴ Accept
paradox.
~Scott Parker
driftwood
becoming a part
of
the mystery
~Joanna
Ashwell
seize the day
a flea in the bed
of
each lodger
~Joanna Ashwell
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The goal of social media
is to make friends and then
slowly
over time
turn them into enemies.
When everyone hates you
you win
and
get to die.
~Noah Berlatsky
She used words I hadn't seen or heard
since
taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test
~Patrick Sweeney
Instead of offering me another beer,
the
pain-in-ass history buff is pontificating about the
short lifespan of democracies
~Patrick Sweeney
I'm
the old man who can't stop coughing on the Amtrak to Pittsburgh
~Patrick Sweeney
I'm old enough to remember being warned about quicksand
and
the third rail of fascism
~Patrick Sweeney
Former deep thinkers on trains are texting,
and
compulsively checking their messages....
~Patrick Sweeney
unexpected obit
pulling the trigger
too
soon
~Stephanie Zepherelli
On
Listening to Son House Sing Death Letter Blues
my sadness pales even knowing
that it won't seem
like even a hundred
on the burial grounds
and I probably won't
even be notified
knowing that it's
really me I mourn for
the stark lyric beauty
hits
me and I almost cry
~dan smith
hey, bully
together we’ll out-bully
you
~Roberta Beach Jacobson
this too shall pass —
a refugee's last words
before
deportation
~Debarati Sen
parents'
gravestone photos
each looks away from the other
forever
~Maya
Daneva
Saint
Alan
Prayers
answered.
Universe
polices
Itself
every
century
or
so.
~Chad Parenteau
fallen
between the fallen makeshift crosses
~Maya Daneva
emotions
spark thunderstorms zigs and zags distant but close
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
bowing
before binary gods our nemesis
~Stephanie Zepherelli
coffee
and rent reality screaming
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
the
fianchettoed chess player
~Ron Scully
Opalescent
strange rain outside the lines
~Sarah Mahina Calvello
The
precious remark of absurdity develops wings the wind stops blowing, a
thought is
torn to shreds
~John Vlachos
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