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The winter of my discontent; a poem in progress 1

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Thursday, October 6, 2011

Preceding: Starbucks @CentralSquare 3:40am @myKitchen They won’t go away. They can’t go away, they’re part of the parade. H is for homeless, a state of mind; and also for unhoused, no roof to sleep under. Hospital begins with H, too. I is for illness, invisible; not ill, but illness. You see a green light, then [...]

The winter of my discontent; a poem in progress

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Starbucks @CentralSquare Watching the morning go-to-work parade. Cars, trucks, buses and bikes. Could be a circus, though not quite a midway. But it is a midway, through. A is for away. B is for bus. C is for cute girl, getting on the bus that takes her away to the circus, or maybe a midway. [...]

Counterbalancing fear and control, with ease

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Thursday, September 22, 2011

Thinking out loud

Story, decisions, systems of influence

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Thursday, September 22, 2011

Thinking out loud

Midnight in the War on Terror

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Saturday, July 23, 2011

We have heard so many times words like, “he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.” Martin Luther King Jr writes in The Strength to Love, “The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” The story of [...]