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BOOMER

BOOMER  — a found poem What is a found poem – “A found poem is a poem created by taking words, phrases, and sentences from existing texts (like newspapers, books, signs, or websites) and rearranging them to form a new poetic work, essentially creating a literary collage that gives the original words new meaning. This method,…

Going Straight

An excerpt from the nonfiction book “Misdemeanor Outlaw” (Blue Heron Book Works, 2017) Every outlaw capable of emotion has visions of going straight. Even if the fear of being caught or guilt over the damage his behavior has done to others doesn’t motivate the desire into action, the need to feel normal in a way…

A Teaching Moment

A Teaching Moment Note: This is an excerpt from a longer work entitled The End of an Era and that book chronicles my life in the early 1970’s after I returned from Vietnam, spent a final three years at college, and took a job with the Department of Social Services of New York City. The…

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