The voting districts are rigged so that choice is illusory The people live on credit, with interest rates—usury When they attempt to unite in defense of their interests They are vilified and fired, blacklisted—communists The young men of the… Read More ›
{click for pdf} Another week of news of stealing: retired cops and firefighters, with the help of an ex-FBI agent, stealing from Social Security; JP Morgan Chase again caught more or less stealing; Frontline giving a look at the institutionalized… Read More ›
Revised September 2013 from Sequence 5 text, January 2004 [click for pdf] Sick, I went with my son, then two years old, to the drugstore in the village where we had a weekend house. It so happened that this… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 September 2013 [click for pdf] Thanksgiving Day several years ago, my son and I had been ice skating at the rink in Central Park and were now walking to Lincoln Center to see a performance of… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 April 2013 I’m stealin’, stealin’, pretty mama Don’t you tell on me I’m stealin’ back to my Same old used to be — American folk song first recorded by the Memphis Jug Band, 1928 May you not… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 January 2013 (1) I had worked out at a Y, not my regular Y, and I was taking my watch and wallet out of a locked box on the wall. A man I did not know, a… Read More ›
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 October 2012 In another lifetime I will solicit complaint letters that people have written to airlines, banks, hospitals, electronics companies, landlords, . . . I’ll make a book. Not of letters that have “worked” or that haven’t;… Read More ›
