Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society
~Michael Harrington

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
~Michael Harrington

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.
~Michael Harrington

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Posted from the Grove:

Ping Pong Concerto w/ NY Philharmonic   (1:39)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/arts/music/ping-pong-new-york-philharmonic-lunar-new-year-gala.html

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Stale in the Icebox:

http://wordgrove.com/icebox.jpg

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Interactive Map with Heart (broken and otherwise)
NYC Edition:   https://cryinginpublic.com/
Compliments: Rusty’s Electric Dream #167

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Prewritten for Thurs 03.01 (6:00pm PT/9 ET)
Season: spring, Prompt: loop

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@Writers Platform:

 Glass Table:

 

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Prewritten: credit card

~Piffin:  “Tchotchke”

Solitary moonbeam
Rainy night Aspercreme
Hoping for a cameo
In someone else’s wet dream
Credit card nosebleed
Sidewalk strewn mustard seed
Weighing down the things we want
With things we didn’t need
Some people reach greatness
The rest—we die unknown
Alone
In small, cluttered rooms

 

thoreau: no credit card required

snow day

she finishes the home-knit
____(thick warm) (for me)
sweater, just in time

for our evening
____dog walk

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~BarTalk: Party

Cash no credit, card them
Free drinks first round
Gyrate, pump the sound up
Intoxicate, then round up
SexPot gets them wound up

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Impromptu: Season: winter, Prompt: visitor

~Piffin:

NYC winter
She used a red umbrella
What a damn tourist

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~Greymane:

Icy tourist bleeds
The frozen breath that Winter needs
Silence never feeds

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~Matttt: Transportation & Winter…

Traveling and tourist? What?

I’m stuck in this fucking taxi, and there’s no heat.
It’s god-damned cold in here.

Frozen, in taxi
The passenger shivering
Will it e’r be warm

I found a way to the taxi
in this town aside the Black Sea
It was freezing in there

If you think its all warm in the cab
You should really double down on the tab
You might just conclude
That the mood is too skewed
And that it’s far better to just confab.

And that’s the tooth

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~thoreau:

blooming too early
as the cold rain turns to snow –
poor white daffodil

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two nearly white dogs
bounding around the snowbanks –
dancing brown patches!

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~BarTalk: 5-7-5 x 2

Jack Frost, visitor
flat ice for a calling card
outside the ER

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indoor visitors
ice outside warm beaver home
pups late season drop

 

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