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Blueprint for the Presumed Restoration of the Trump Regime
Plans are afoot to turn the clock back to the nineteenth century with a radical overhaul of the executive branch of government that breaks up the…
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Incident at Chapin High
The photo on the Washington Post home page of a teacher standing at the entrance to Chapin High School drew my eye to the headline: Her students…
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Fall Term 2023
Greetings at the beginning of the fall term. Days and evenings grow cooler, sunlight softer. Soon leaves will turn color and fall lazily to the ground…
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In These Baffling Times
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Out of Tune with My Time, Out of Time with the Tune
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Gregory Corso and the Belief in Poetry
On my seventy-first birthday I treated myself to some bookstore browsing at Powell’s City of Books. There on an upper shelf in the poetry section The…
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Opening Night of Debate Season
After reflection and some back and forth at the Portable Bohemia editorial desk, I declined to watch Wednesday’s Republican debate live because the…
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The Center Delusion: Reflections and Deflections; and, Debate Season Opens
No Labels and the Center Delusion was intended as a polemic directed at the No Labels project and its appropriation of a fanciful center as raison…
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What Does It Mean? (a poem)
Sometime back in the 1980s, after reading some of my poems, my friend Sue asked, “But what it does it mean?” I was not thinking in terms of a response…
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What Fresh Nonsense Is This?
That zany vaudeville troupe at the Florida Department of Education is at it again. The antics would be a fount of merriment if the stakes were not so…
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Out of Tune with My Time, Out of Time with the Tune
For some time I have thought that a pronounced estrangement from the culture around me might have something to do with the situation on the poetry…
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Tuesday's Indictment: A Positive Development but...
It appears that everyone and his, her, or their brother or other significant relative has weighed in on the coup indictment, so I will keep my comments…
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David Matthews Portable Bohemia
David Matthews Portable Bohemia
commentary on politics and current affairs as conscience and honest indignation dictate spiced with adventures of intellect and spirit
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