random juxtaposition poems
Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
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epicaricacy
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
random juxtaposition poem #2
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The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
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Today’s social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest: the comforting belief that if you can get enough people into the streets from diverse demographics, largely unified behind a clear message, then our representatives will be forced to heed the crowd’s wishes. (Micah White, on the Women's March, January 19, 2017)
random juxtaposition poem #4
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I see the destructive early 1970s Urban Renewal in Iowa City (while devastating to the city’s cultural identity and historic feel) as more of a precipitating event in the dissolution of the group of writers and artists in the core of the “actualist” movement. More important was the fact that Iowa City was a small pond, with a limited job market (especially for writers and artists), so, eventually, people had to look elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Iowa Writers Workshop, which under George Starbuck’s direction, had attracted a diverse group of creative radicals in the late 1960s, had recoiled in horror at the cultural flowering (and become much more conservative). So there were fewer actualist-minded new students (or teachers) coming to Iowa City — at the same time that some of us were growing up and moving away, for all those reasons that young people everywhere do exactly that. (George Mattingly, comment on the article Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement, by Adam Burke, in little village mag, Jan 9, 2015).
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n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
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n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
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n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
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Dig up pleasure
evil from evil
randition #2
the environment, or actions
is that trace of a next action
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first they remain
in them within
randition #3
Take the middle
create deviance
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the most enduring myths
comfort you can heed
randition #4
truth is not awareness
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the destructive group of writers
and artists in Starbuck’s
randition #5
an old Indian
in Norway
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the historic was a small pond
young people everywhere
randition #6
rehearsals not rehearsals
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misfortune a form of joy
randition #7
between the trace
by the same
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Today’s contemporary
American wishes
randition #8
Take deviance
practice
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Iron within
power within