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Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts

...(  L A. Times  - A cogent and accurate commentary by Member - johntomas )



  You recycle a common but baseless accusation that NPR and PBS have become “left-leaning,” when in re...

A Writer's Reach

...The pale blue lines on which I write 
stretch to infinity, 
and hint of a distant, misty line 
where heaven touches sea. 

The reach of sight, the eye's extreme, 
as far as the mind can go, 
i...

An Editor Grills a Cub Reporter

...
“You got the goldfish interview, as asked?”
“I did, sir, but he lacked the wherewithal
to answer me coherently, I fear.”
“What’s that supposed to mean? The fishing section
is looking pretty thi...

Act Of Defiance

...All at once I  absquatulated,
in hindsight now I know why. 
The craziness simply escalated,
I no longer held the desire to try. 

The pellucid message in silence
is a fierce strong-arm motivato...

Hurt The Same

...Stuttering heaves of prickling breaths
the wind I swallowed is laughing at me
or is it the oxygen it boasts that mocks the lungs that crave
ammunition, cogent, to birth veristic life?

Whatever ...

Streets Of Solitude

...

In the resonant noise of continual commotion,
as the voice of hysteria feels quietened  
by the tender touch of consummate calmness, 
the serene sheath of sentiments sinks slow 
with uniquely...

A significantly Pointless Teacup

...My late mother got it from a thrift shop 40 years ago -
a fine China teacup and saucer,
it might be worth something,
you never know with fine China teacups.
It could be an antique or just some ch...

Cogent and the Diligent Gentlemen

...The emblem on the pendant
was new to all of the professors
they sorted every detail
from end to end
they sampled and examined
until were lofted dumbfounded.
a miracle: something that
made all ...

Anomie

...
When social upheaval brews chaos of nihilism,
Forfeiting moral values, embracing skepticism;
Instability ensues, clamoring in emptiness,
Believing world is futile, life is meaningless,
As broke...

Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading

...Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading...

out loud.

As a hypothetical argument 
yours truly doth not aim
to be unfortunate recipient
of misguided, misjudged, and mislaid bla...

It Started With a Blank Canvas

...
How endearing the innocence of life was,
When blissfully it started, with a blank canvas,
Cherishing in mother’s love and warmth,
Happy as can be, cuddled in loving arms,
Flaunting vigor of ado...

a poem inspired by glitchore that will age poorly probably

...Fingertips click a
desperate breakbeat
as eyes glaze over
in blue light baptism
please overwhelm me

Binary jungle,
you glowing cesspit
through the clipping
curtain echoes a choir
of post-p...

The final frontier post consciousness

...The final frontier – post consciousness

as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent,
lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent 
nonestablishmentarian.

The following disquisition initially des...

For They Speak With Thunder

...I stand barefoot eyes open sometimes closed but as I stare into the grey abyss that deluges rain and its oh divine potent power. It is cogent that we are mere cells of a bigger picture in the eyes of...

Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations

...Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass kil...

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