I’d build myself a city A big, quiet town, A city to call my own With an uptown and no down. Peopled by people Who don’t live in their heads, No one lives too high; All with homes and beds. It’ll be low tech, Nothing quite on time. Lots of coffee breaks No crime. Build …
A welcome to new ThisCantBeHappening! readers
Hello to all of you who are visiting this site after learning that TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff just won one of this year’s Izzy Awards for Excellence in Alternative Journalism — as well as those of you who may have just stumbled upon the site. ThisCantBeHappening! was founded in 2010, initially by Dave and three …
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Patriarchy — how it ends
The kings, They come in caravans to die And they bring with them their servants. And their jewels stay with them When they are buried One hundred years apart In the back yard. And their graves Fall down And are removed For paving stones And the road that the kings arrived on Is called Kings …
The Storyteller
Right before intermission, After a long story about a land Where people sold their dreams To a company that made movies Out of their dreams that the people Spent all their money to watch, He began to tell a scary story. We were all too scared to move. His words alarmed us. Our hair stood …
The mock interview
Now that you have found your way through the labyrinth What don’t you understand? You may ask anything you want. If it is in my program I will be happy to answer, Tilting my head slightly and smiling. But first: How much do you want this job on a scale of 1 to 100? On …
What you might do
Two ravens are eating corn In the snow, in the medicine circle. They are jet-black Against a field of pure white. Looking out over this cold landscape You would never know it is March. You might make some tea, Place another log on the fire. You might gradually return to your thoughts. You might be …
Quiet as a banana
Bananas are famously yellow but they are also very quiet. Sometimes they are so quiet that I forget they are there until they turn black. Equally quiet is a chair but a chair is more still than quiet when it isn’t being sat in, so still in its form you have to wonder if it …
Appeal of order for PA Supreme Court rehearing should be dropped
6700-Name Petition Delivered to Philly DA Krasner Calling for Fair Appeal for Mumia
The organization Roots Action has delivered a petition signed by 6700 people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, across the country and around the world, to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, demanding that Mumia Abu-Jamal be allowed to re-argue his original appeal of his conviction to the state’s highest court. The petition, which can still have names added, …
Greylock Mountain
Stop, stop! I shouted. Someone in my waking dream was shining a light on me. I shuffled downstairs to make some coffee, to feed the cats, to stoke the fire. This song is making me sad. This song. . . this song, listen. . . I’m a poet. And you? I’m a worrier. What worries …
Like reading Mary Oliver
Reading the late Mary Oliver, I have a bookmark marking a favorite poem. It used to be a long piece of brown paper, The handle of a paper bag. I read a few more poems And then a few more, marking the ones I like With the brown paper bookmark. The bookmark gets shorter and …