Trump – Specks and Fragments

All posts tagged: Trump

Apropos Nostalgia for Modern-Day Progressives (ring the bells that still can ring) (the dove is never free) (the signs were sent) (i heard that)

November 12, 2016

when memes were posters you bought at the record store using a diverse array of thumb tacks to pin it to your wall Maybe I should stop there, but I can’t. we have lost one of the great poet musicians of any time: Leonard Cohen. As the beginning of the video shows, he knew at least he was loved. And he would say as we all should be loved. And “Anthem” so pertinent now and unfortunately […]

Post-Election Adjustments

November 11, 2016

by Elusive Trope

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My Flash Fiction

Informed of morale plummeting, with its corresponding decrease in productivity and increase in theft of office supplies, the Director of the Agency convened an ad hoc task force to address how best to combat this trend. During that first meeting, after the lethargic participants spent an hour spinning their wheels, the new hire spoke up for the first time. We could paint this place..you know, cheerful puts-a-smile-on-your-face colors. Three Line Tales – Week Forty-One

The Second Coming

October 19, 2016

by Elusive Trope

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Art / Politics

Having endured the last of the three debates, I offer Yeats. to whom I apologize for the alteration of the last line. He was a prophet. Like Rilke. Like Woolf. Like Orwell. Like Dickinson. We just didn’t listen. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of […]

Opening of the One-Act Play “Trump’s Last Voice File”

October 11, 2016

by Elusive Trope

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Uncategorized

Just an opinion: Donald Trump is a vile and vulgar representatives of the human race. When the urge to write something about his bid for the Oval Office, there is so much I want to spew about how he has taken a credible, legitimized seat at the adult’s table. Yet there are plenty of folks out there writing about the same notions and doing it better than I could. Yet the urge to write something […]

Dispatch from the Trenches: Give Me a Sign

October 7, 2016

by Elusive Trope

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My Life / My Photography / Quote

The structurality of structure…has always been neutralized or reduced by a process of giving it a center or a referring it to a point of presence, a fixed origin. The function of this center is not only to orient, balance, and organised the structure…but above all to make sure that the organizing principle of the structure would limit…the play of the structure. ….It was necessary to begin thinking that there was no center, that […]