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“Shit-Life Syndrome” (Oxycontin Blues)

Curtis Price

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The drug crisis is hard to ignore in the South – and not just in the rural areas. People keel over waiting for buses or lie slouched and zoned out in cars, as if some zombie-inducing ...

This Mongrel Nation

Curtis Price

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โ€œAmerican culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite. It is, regardless of all the hysterical protestations of those who would have it otherwise, incontestable mulatto . . .Indeed, for all ...

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Ghana vibes: first trip to Accra

Salim Washington

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My preparation began before even landing in Accra it would seem. It was interesting as I went via Namibia Air and stopped in Windhoek and Lagos before reaching my destination. In Johannesburg the Ghanaians on the ...

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Letter from Italy

Ferruccio Gambino

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Thanks for sending me the latest issue of “Hard Crackers.โ€ It is an excellent issue. It has confirmed my view that we need a similar publication in Southern Europe and particularly in this country. TV news ...

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Black Panthers

The Ex-Panther

Curtis Price

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When I lived in Baltimore and went to events sponsored by the anarchist bookstore, often Iโ€™d notice the presence of one or two ex-Panthers, stray corks bobbing in an ocean of youthful whiteness. They stayed to ...

Ardmore, Tennessee: โ€œDonโ€™t Like Your Rights Taken Away? Donโ€™t Take Away Someone Elseโ€™s!!!โ€

Curtis Price

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Driving from Huntsville to southern Tennessee, the Huntsville exurbs soon dissolve into rolling corn fields alternated with soybean patches and then the lanes shrink into just two. This stretch of north Alabama and south Tennessee is ...

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Poems

Dexter Herda

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Bedroom Window Musty gray dawn trespasses into the noon hour; And one looks like the other from this side of my bedroom window. Weather stained pawn malingers from stale to sour; And one smells like the ...

Thinking about Papa Heinz

Luis Brennan

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Ketchup makes bad fake blood Because it doesnโ€™t stir the right Kind of horror or nervousness. Itโ€™s too sweet looking and gooey. The red it all wrong and dried it Doesnโ€™t leave that flat rust stain ...

On Reading Kenneth Fearingโ€™s โ€œThe Hospitalโ€

Curtis Price

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โ€œIโ€™ll never get used to this hospital smell of antiseptic, not even after all the times I visited Alice in Bellevue. Itโ€™s the smell of the grave. Think of something without that smell. Think of something ...

Pennsylvania Sheriff Warns: Accept No Imitation

Noel Ignatiev

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Earlier this month a mysterious call came through to Dr. Mark Crucianiโ€™s office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The caller identified himself as a sheriffโ€™s deputy from Lackawanna County and informed Cruciani that he had missed a court ...