Jem

A Quest To Italicize A Period Does Not Need Anyone’s Approval

Topock 66 Bar on Route 66, Mohave County along Colorado River
Topock AZ. iphone 12 Pro iColorama app

a quest

to italicize

a period does

not need anyone’s

approval anymore

than it requires

rude comments

about wasting time

in the middle of our

2nd plague…

— Caconrad from poem From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Hour”

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    Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. — Audre Lorde
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    The Christ in you doesn’t die — it resurrects. — Joseph Campbell
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  • Frighten Me Into The Present
    Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present… That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral. — Jack Gilbert from poem I Imagine the Gods
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