All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

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The Piker Press features “Turning 41”

Hey, gang! I’m honored today to see The Piker Press publish another poem of mine — “Turning 41.” I wrote this poem last year!! Thanks as always to Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at this wonderful online lit mag.

“Turning 41,” by Eric Robert Nolan

[Update: okay … I wrote this poem many years ago, not last year, because 41 was a while back. Whatever.]



“Night Scene,” Matthew Barnes

I cannot determine the date of Barnes’ work here.  Alternate Internet sources date it at 1932 (or later?) — yet a version of it apparently appeared  in the 1905 book Architect and Engineer (Architect and Engineer, Inc.).  I’m guessing that Barnes completed multiple versions of the same work.

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Cover to “Catwoman” #69, Adam Hughes, 2007

DC Comics.

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Consider the source.

If you give any credence to Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud (or, indeed, ANY claims the man makes) let’s put them in the context of his track record in telling the truth. I’m linking here to The Washington Post’s compiled list of 26,548 false or misleading claims since he took office.

The list was last updated on October 22, so there are more that two full months of steady accusations that have not been subjected to verification.  (Trump’s Twitter feed currently reads like that of a rabid, reality-impaired Don Quixote.) 

Fake news, you say?  Bias?  Take a look at the list.  It’s easy to understand, it’s meticulously detailed and it has links to back itself up.   It … looks pretty real to me.

This is the great truth teller in whom you have placed your trust — the man you’ve chosen to believe instead of The Supreme Court, all the lower courts, election officials, election workers, new reporters and even his own Attorney General.

It makes you think, doesn’t it?



 

“Happy New Year!” Franz von Stuck, 1888

From “Die Gartenlaube” (“The Garden Arbor”).

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Seriously, don’t call.

I think it would be better for both of us if we made a clean break, 2020.

I went ahead and boxed up your things.




(Sea what I did there?)