Anna B
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Writer, recovered lawyer.
Anna B
The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop
... See moreThis is the best poem on war I think I have ever read.
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of th
... See more- The questions of apostrophe placement regarding Harris and Walz are far from the most debated use of the punctuation mark, Mr. McCalden said. (That would be using orange’s instead of oranges.) But the discourse comes at a pivotal time for apostrophes: Thursday, Aug. 15, is International Apostrophe Day.
from Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier. by Ben Hickey
- The Associated Press Stylebook, widely considered to be the gold standard among news organizations, is clear on its rule for the possessive of singular proper names ending in S — only an apostrophe is needed (Harris’), though there are always exceptions. The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting... See more
from Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier. by Ben Hickey
- “Anyone who tells you there are universal rules to how to add an apostrophe ending in S is either wrong or lying,” Jeffrey Barg, a grammar columnist, said. “You can’t be wrong as long as you’re consistent.”
from Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier. by Ben Hickey
- Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!from Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
This poem kept me going during the insanity of the Trump years.
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Voltaire
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See morefrom Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit