A friend of mine released a great micro-chapbook of poetry and it’s available as a free download over at Maverick Duck Press.
Jay Sturner’s Shadows and Sparks can be found right here.
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Graffiti in Berlin, Germany, 2007
Sprayed stencil and tags.
IIIIIIIIII, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Source: Nyx Erinyes on Facebook
Photo credit: CrazyPhunk, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
“The conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty.”
“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. None of these things can be done alone.
“But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”
— from James Baldwin’s “The Creative Process,” 1962
Source: The Marginalian
Photo collage from the “Bulletin of the Normal School for Women, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April, 1920”
“The Normal School for Women” later became Mary Washington College. There is a pernicious rumor going around that it was subsequently named “The University of Mary Washington,” but we all know that couldn’t be right.
Anyway, you can view and enlarge this image here at Wikimedia Commons.
“It’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it.”
Source: the “Good Words” page on Facebook
Getting back to my roots.
If you’ve ever played with G. I. Joes outside as a kid, then, every once in a while, you’ll still notice an “environment” in which it would be cool to set them up. This, for example, looks to me like a nicely defensible position.
New York City, 1935
“Coca-Cola came to town.”
Coca-Cola came to town.
Pepsi-Cola shot him down.
Dr Pepper fixed him up.
Now they all drink 7-Up.
— I remember this childhood rhyme from standing at the bus stop in the early 1980’s. (I was pretty amused when Mikey Wagner rattled it off one cold morning.) There are a number of variations to it, including one that is apparently unique to Britain.
I usually avoid soda entirely — my dentist had a couple of things to say about how bad it is for the teeth. (It’s not the sugar; it’s the drink’s acidic effects on enamel.) But tonight I indulged in a Dr Pepper anyway. Hey, it’s my favorite, and Roanoke is the Dr Pepper Capital of the world.
Oh, by the way, I only learned tonight from the article linked above that the beverage is correctly spelled “Dr Pepper,” with the period left off of the “Dr” part of the name. Weird world.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 
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