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- AND SO PASSES A WOMAN’S LIFE IN TURKEY (21 October 2014)
- Bury My Heart At Heartbreak
- "Adil" means "just" in Arabic (18 July 2012)
- THERE WILL BE NO ICE CREAM IN DAMASCUS THIS LOVELY EVENING (14 June 2013)
- IN ISTANBUL A DOORMAN DIES (31 January 2014)
- İSTANBUL'DA BİR APARTMAN GÖREVLİSİ ÖLÜR (31 Ocak 2014)
- "Terrorist Pietá"
- NOTHING BUT MARGARET (9 May 2014)
- August 6, 1945 (6 August 2012)
- BREATHLESS IN AMERICA (5 December 2013)
- JFK DIES FOR THESE SINS (27 December 2013)
- Short Fiction
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Music
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Poetry
- TO THE IRANIAN KIDS BUSTED ON EXCESSIVE HAPPINESS CHARGE BY TEHRAN’S KORANIC KOPS (22 May 2014)
- AMERICA
- Joe the Biden Eats the Bison (21/01/2013)
- A poem by Etheridge Knight
- Apprehension in the Bronx Botanical Garden
- A Shine on the Quay at Üsküdar
- Like Kerim
- Pandemonium
- Pines
- Starry Night
- Senseless, Remembering
- That Russian Woman in the Caffé Taci
- The Cliffhouse on San Francisco Bay
- Traitor
- World Series Obsequies
- On Sports
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On Peace
- A WAR ON WARMONGERS, A “JEFFERSONIAN” REBELLION (April 4, 2016)
- WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SOCIALIST by Chris Hedges (21 September 2015)
- THE YOUNG EURO CLASSIC PEACE ORCHESTRA
- Toxic Legacy of US Assault on Fallujah ‘Worse than Hiroshima’ 15 October 2014
- Criminal Complaint: International Criminal Court, 6 October 2014
- What I'd Like to See on Front Pages of Newspapers (By Noam Chomsky)
- THE NOBEL OBAMA (2 September 2013)
- My Vote For President: 2012
- American Democracy
- Democratic Socialism
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On West Point
- OBAMA VISITS WEST POINT THEN LIES, CHEATS AND STEALS (6 June 2014)
- West Point Graduates Organize Against The War - 21 April 2006
- Good Neighbor Senator Sessions Walls Out Mexico . . . and Robert Frost - 19 May 2006
- Now Is The Time - 12 May 2006
- Cadet Bush at West Point: Screw that chin in, beanhead! - 1 June 2006
- Guantánamo: The Subject Was Linens- 15 June 2006
- Impeach the President of the United States - 7 October 2006
- Election Eve Daze--Hanging in There Together - 6 November 2006
- Peace Award Remarks - 12 November 2006 - Syracuse, New York
- George W. MacBush–Serial Murderer - 15 December 2006
- Abolish It! - 9 Feb 2007
- WEST POINT TO HONOR DISHONORABLE GEORGE W. BUSH >
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On America
- BRONX GIRL OUSTS 10-TERM DEMOCRAT POLITICAL BOSS!
- The United States of America: Land of internment camps
- THIS IS AMERICA!
- MY DISGUST AND DESPAIR ABOUT TRUMP'S SCHEME TO DESTROY THE V.A.
- MY LETTER TO SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER , 3 February 2017
- DONALD DEMENTIA
- Service Academy Graduates Against the War
- U.S. Service Academy Graduates Oppose Bombing Syria (5 September 2013)
- NO WAY OUT YOU NO GOOD PSEUDO-AMERICAN NEOCON NUDNIK APPARATCHIKS! CATCH ME IF YOU DARE!
- WILLIE MAYS FOR PRESIDENT! (SEPTEMBER 24, 2016)
- COUNT ME OUT, BERNIE! NO MORE $3 CONTRIBUTIONS! March 2, 2016
- The atrocities of ISIS and the US wars of sociocide (26 August 2015)
- WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (25 August 2015)
- KILLING RAGHEADS FOR JESUS (By Chris Hedges) (26 January 2015)
- The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
- THOMAS PAINE, OUR CONTEMPORARY (27 May 2014)
- JAMES SALTER
- BEFORE A SUMMER SUN >
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- The CIA and the Media
- The End Of Democracy As We Knew It (Bernd Hamm)
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- Kidnapped (17/8/2012)
POETRY IN MUSIC
YOU'RE NEARER
Time is a healer
but it cannot heal my heart
my mind says I've forgotten you
and then I feel my heart.
The miles lie between us,
but your fingers touch my own.
You're nearer far away from me,
for you're too much my own.
You're nearer
than my head is to my pillow.
Nearer
than the wind is to the willow.
Dearer
than the rain is to the earth below.
Precious as the sun to the things that grow.
You're nearer
than the ivy to the wall is.
Nearer
than the winter to the fall is.
Leave me,
but when you're away you'll know
You're nearer
for I love you so.
but it cannot heal my heart
my mind says I've forgotten you
and then I feel my heart.
The miles lie between us,
but your fingers touch my own.
You're nearer far away from me,
for you're too much my own.
You're nearer
than my head is to my pillow.
Nearer
than the wind is to the willow.
Dearer
than the rain is to the earth below.
Precious as the sun to the things that grow.
You're nearer
than the ivy to the wall is.
Nearer
than the winter to the fall is.
Leave me,
but when you're away you'll know
You're nearer
for I love you so.
You're Nearer
Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
Music: Richard Rodgers
From the 1940 film version of the Broadway musical TOO MANY GIRLS.
Play opened at the Imperial Theatre, New York City
October 18, 1939
Director: George Abbott
Music: Richard Rodgers
From the 1940 film version of the Broadway musical TOO MANY GIRLS.
Play opened at the Imperial Theatre, New York City
October 18, 1939
Director: George Abbott
OH, ONE MORE THING…
LIKE GOOD MUSIC? MAD ABOUT GOOD BOOKS?
CAN'T GET YOUR FILL?
THEN SUPPORT AN ARTIST (me).
AND BUY A GOOD BOOK (mine).
YOU'RE NEARER THAN YOU THINK.
CLICK BELOW!
YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES.
LIKE GOOD MUSIC? MAD ABOUT GOOD BOOKS?
CAN'T GET YOUR FILL?
THEN SUPPORT AN ARTIST (me).
AND BUY A GOOD BOOK (mine).
YOU'RE NEARER THAN YOU THINK.
CLICK BELOW!
YOU WON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES.
Remembering Joe Wojcik
Leave me,
but when you're away you'll know
You're nearer
for I love you so.
but when you're away you'll know
You're nearer
for I love you so.