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Continue readingA life dedicated to service to the great good, whereby personal gain, career ambitions, glam, bling and all that glitters seducing our vanity from the bottomless pit of the capitalist, exploitive world we inhabit is worthy of respect. Social media with its free and vast potential to reach the masses may feel like the platform for such service. To some born into the Era of the Internet, it seems to be the very definition of…
Continue readingThere are endless platforms on social media to rant, to ‘hate on,’ to think you are calling out those who you think you know better than. Heaven knows, I am on both ends of that privilege that the internet has afforded these times. I am 66 years old this year of the Baby Boomer gen. I identified as a Xicana/Chicana. I identified as a feminist. I am the daughter of factory workers in Chicago. We…
Continue readingAside from staying healthy and in a good mental state in “These Times?” I am nearly done with a new collection of poems, MY BOOK OF THE DEAD. A few have appeared in. small publications. There are about a half dozen at this time in Spanish which will be included with translation. There is also prose ruminating in my cabezahead. There was much to think about in the address I was asked to give…
Continue readingI I will publish here my remarks at the luncheon today. I hope they will inspire you. Stay tuned!
Continue reading(The poet on her 66th birthday, Manhattan) Two Men and Me I left Bukowski again, went back to Bolaño, Both men bad to their women. Me, like the rest, couldn’t get enough. Both smoked and drank themselves to death. They liked it rough, said that was how they got their best writing done. One winter we all ended up in hell, ran into each other at a café. (REVISION: bar, public bath…FILL IN THE BLANK). Chuck wanted to…
Continue readingIMG_1140 Living in times I thought I would have only read in dystopic novels, times I saw coming and perhaps, like others, rubbed my eyes and convinced myself it was a dark hallucination– Instead of starting the new book about writing I planned in the fall of 2016, I went silent. Or near-silent. There were thought-out rants and even videos posted on FB, that were quickly published elsewhere. I started stories. I kept up with…
Continue readingAnnouncement Given the corruption on Facebook in the last national election AND the announcement that they will be sponsoring the candidacy of the GOP campaign for 2020 I am returning here to blog. This year I will be fazing out of FB as a protest. The power of the 1% has the majority of the world population dancing to their tune. We do it out of convenience, to keep our comforts, to serve our…
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