Those who follow the news are not superior but complicit Ceux qui se tiennent au courant de l’actualité ne sont pas supérieurs mais complices Not to worry, soon enough you will not be able to turn your machines off Pas… Read More ›
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By climate change our coffee beans find themselves threatened
A sonnet for my nephew Dan and his younger generation By climate change our coffee beans find themselves threatened – The heat’s too oppressive; there’s no drying season. Thank God for new technology, for our innovations – The engines… Read More ›
Phlegm misting the heart
{ Chers francophones : Apaise et ouvre les trous de l’esprit — un brouillon pour une traduction — se trouve en bas. } Overhearing someone use the word “courage.” “Something has to happen,” they told themselves. Youth, eager to… Read More ›
The Secret Life of Bureaucrats
We are no longer so inclined to fire people because of the color of their skin or who they may be having sex with, and we count this as progress and find other ways of getting rid of people who… Read More ›
The Professor of Ignorance Condemns the Airplane
On 25 October 2014 Dixon Place presented a staged reading of this dialogue. From the script CYNTHIA: You know, thanks to the Internet — information technology — since I started working at the magazine, almost half of my colleagues have been laid off…. Read More ›
Certum est, quia impossibile
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 May 2012 The formula for “action thrillers,” James Bond movies hardly least of all, includes the hero rushing from one calamitous situation to the next, trusting to his gadgets, quick-thinking, cool-headedness and luck to bring him through… Read More ›
