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O, WOMEN, kneeling by your altar rails long hence, When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer, And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the violet air And covers away the smoke of myrrh and frankincense; Bend Read More …
Bar on the West Coast of South Africa In a hole in the wall bar on the west coast of South Africa, a man is found with a poem inked in flesh… ‘The Roker’s Song’ In a hole in the Read More …
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame… The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he’s circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into Read More …
Winter When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When Blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the Read More …
The Perfect High There once was a boy named Gimmesome Roy. He was nothing like me or you. ’Cause laying back and getting high was all he cared to do. As a kid, he sat in the cellar, sniffing airplane Read More …
Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Read More …
Mountains of corn cobs waiting for being transformed into pipes. The cobs are stored for two years. Aging makes the cobs harder and dryer. The Missouri Meerschaum Pipe Co The Old Cob Pipe Why do I stick to the Read More …
Grow Yer Own Stone – Alexander Sumach, 1974 book cover Grow Yer Own Stone Canada was much like the U.S. during the 70’s with high penalties for small cannabis infractions. In 1974 Author Alexander Sumach published a book proposing a Read More …
The End of King Cotton “Behold me dangling up and down, In a Hemp tie ‘stead of a cotton crown. Neither my leg bail nor cotton bale Could save me from the coffin’s nail- And here I swing, in Read More …
Zouave with flag, c.1861 Civil War Postal Cover (printed picture on envelopes for decoration) “Jeff Davis boasts that “cotton’s king,” Upon his throne so rotten- But he’ll soon find, amid his swing, That Hemp is king of cotton.” Read More …