Jack Lindeman
Posts by Jack Lindeman
REMEMBERING JACK LEWIS
When I think of you even as a scrawny kid in Londonderry razzing the British in a street rally there is always the crown of the sun a few inches…
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SONS OF GOD
The tide of history is on the side of the oppressed. The oppressor is nearly always either knocked clean out of the picture or battered to the point where he…
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE
The original impetus for the French Revolution came not from the proletarians or starving unemployed but from the wealthiest one per cent of the nation’s aristocracy who feared losing their…
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EPA
The disintegration is real. We step back but everything happens anyway, the flash floods distending so rapidly they can never be accused of political motives, and then the traffic grows…
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OUR ANCESTORS WERE WORMS
Yes, six hundred million years ago our ancestors were worms. Thus, we can relish among ourselves the inexplicably amazing evolution we have achieved since those distant pre-historic times. But then…
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OCCUPY USA
I cannot listen to the thousand thousands. Their in-unison roar invades my Eustachian tubes like barbarian hordes, their sense of honor rattles the bones of bygone heroes with ludicrous laughter…
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PROGRESS IS (?) A COMFORTABLE DISEASE
Stephen Hawking (author of A Brief History of Time) a few weeks ago advised his fellow earth-dwellers to begin probing the sky for another planet with livable conditions much like…
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At His Graveside in East Berlin
I say you were a beast of burden touched in your brain by the most unequivocal hardships, rock bottoms and abrasive insects with stingers as lethal as the points of…
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WITHOUT HATRED
Virginia Woolf was not above envying those writers whose work she held in esteem and whose lives were somewhat less respectable than her own.
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SCENIC
While the wind grows bold I try to imagine myself shivering in some other place I have not gone to yet ***************
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