Author: Matt
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Reading Poets and Writers
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Jane and I were perusing the most recent issue. I was looking for contests to enter with my latest book. Jane was reading selected poets. I scanned an article by a pontificating ass. We soon agreed that the poetry was dreadful; I composed a poem at the moment which reflected…
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I Am More Than Convinced
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Watching Obama orate, speechifying with flair and gospel tinged repetition, I see the suckers lining up. What has he really done that prepares him for the presidency or, for that matter, what has Hillary done that prepares her for that office. By the time one runs for the presidency, the…
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Some Observations that Go Unobserved.
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It is almost 5 AM and inhibitions are loosened, time to fulminate. In 1972 Nixon won handedly over George McGovern, a real war hero, a man, as time has proven, of not inconsiderable integrity. I had grown up with Tricky Dicky during the Fifties, and I was just stunned that…
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Day-Lewis Redux
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“There Will Be Blood” has proven a vexing movie for me; my simple test for almost anything literary or cinematic is that it moves me on many different levels, somehow touches my soul. I have concluded that the film is great but like “Citizen Kane” has a coldness to it,…