Author: barry.belmont
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Donald Trump’s Hat
Beginning on page 52 of Harry Hurt III’s Lost Tycoon we are told of an “afternoon in late October” of 1989 when Donald Trump (of whom you may have heard) was taken via limousine to 45 East Eighty-fifth Street in New York City [1], then “the address of the Reed Center for plastic surgery”, to…
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You work in a coal mine
And you show up every day you’re scheduled you work hard, mining coal for the company with the means you have at your disposal And you contribute a portion to the company profits And they award you a wage for that …
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Minidoka
President Gerald R. Ford, on the bicentennial of the United States’ founding, terminated Executive Order 9066 originally signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 establishing ten “relocation centers” for Nikkei living in America, calling upon the American people to promise “we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to…
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Lubec, Maine, U.S.A.
At the easternmost part of the United States mainland sits a lighthouse whose lens transforms its surroundings in a catadioptric spectrum 83 feet above sea level. At the end of this remote rainbow in this remote land–– The “actual” easternmost part of the country changes with tides, erosion, accretion, environmental degradation, the accumulation of effluvia,…
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Again and Again
You will find yourself Reaching out into that starry starry night In that darkness between those voids You will learn something very true You don’t matter And all the things you thought you knew Are stories that we tell ourselves So why not love and share a few? It doesn’t matter how hard you try…
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Washington, D.C.,
a year afterThe year, 2021. The week, exactly one year after the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. as President of the United States of America. The week before he was inaugurated comprises, by the published record, the largest mass death event (from a single cause) in United States history thus far, with approximately 4,170 – 4,406…