THE SURVEYOR'S REPORT
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
a belated Pi Day (3.14) poem by Karen Greenbaum-Maya It's a cruel people. Barbarians, they keep dead trees among the struggling living, ...
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
starvation
starvation
CHRONICLES
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Judith Terzi They are taking something away in America. They have stolen all the cows in South Sudan. They are hawking their egos on mino...
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Starbucks
Starbucks
BLOOD, COFFEE, AND A COVERED LIFE
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Jill Crainshaw Daily Signe Cartoon 03/14/17 The old hymn from my childhood pounds out a heat-beating rhythm in my head. “There is power, ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
wiretapping
wiretapping
SONG OF 45
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Alejandro Escudé I listen for the listener in my darkened airplane of a home, stars cycle within me, the sun blazes as if it rose for me...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
waves
waves
MIGRATIONS #1
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Judith Partin Nielsen Shifting Perception, painting by Jay Alders ...
Monday, March 13, 2017
White House
White House
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Thomas R. Smith Late afternoon sun on snow. Intense flare concentrated in the west, skimming cold shadows pooling below the dam. On the p...
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sisyphus
Sisyphus
ON THE PRACTICE OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by David Feela The clocks, advanced one hour, will not save us, not from the imaginations of oblivious children exhausted in the moist dark ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017
war
war
EXAMPLE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Salvador Díaz Mirón from his 1901 collection Lascas [ Stone Chippings ]; translation by Julie Steiner Iraqi children giggle at the bod...
Friday, March 10, 2017
Saturn rocket
Saturn rocket
DEM(ENT)OCRACY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Jon Wesick In retrospect, her symptoms were obvious. When American democracy mooned her neighbor, the sheriff didn’t press charges. Who c...
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
work
work
MOTHER-DAUGHTER
Sean Lenon
2:37 AM
by Mary McEwen My mother was successful. She grew up in a small valley town In Evergreen Colorado, Born to an Italian father and Scottish mo...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
truth
truth
SLEEP AFTER A T***P SPEECH
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Ben Kline What are facts if they lack truth in telling? He was the bad lover I left five weeks and sixty two months before the March hai...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
wiretapping
wiretapping
A FRIEND BREAKS HIS RENAISSANCE SWORD ON A PAPAYA
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Kristina England Any fruit can hide the fierceness of its rinds. We should never believe the weapon invincible. Record low temperatures t...
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time
THE NEXT DAY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by James Grabill So it’s the next day and we’re still alive on the planet where we’ve thrived beyond overflow capacity and immersed ourselve...
Monday, March 6, 2017
tomb
tomb
ORGASMO DE NEGOCIOS
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Ashton Jaymz Cartoon by Jeff Darcy White hoods give way to smiling white faces Trim suits, white shirts, smooth in all the right places P...
war
war
DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Howard Winn where lies have become dogma and law breakers rise to the top for no good reason except they kiss the feet of he who has lied...
Sunday, March 5, 2017
wood
wood
TODAY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Laura Rodley For you, my grandchildren, I am saving pine needles in the forest. For you, my grandchildren I am hanging up my clothes, sav...
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
treadmill
treadmill
DON'T GET SICK IN AMERICA
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Alan Walowitz Despite not being a doctor, I give him my best advice: AARP, I tell him. Always, At all costs, Remain Perpendicular. My o...
Friday, March 3, 2017
rights
rights
TO SAVE THE COUNTRY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Brenda J. Gannam ACLU People Power with sincere apologies and enormous gratitude to paul simon the problem’s not all inside the beltway, ...
Thursday, March 2, 2017
war
war
SEED CORN MUST NOT BE GROUND
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Pamela Wynn Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground : A mother protecting her children, lithograph by Käthe Kollwitz, 1942. Image source: Spartacus ...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
undeserving
undeserving
TERRIFIED
Sean Lenon
4:00 AM
by Marsha Owens Image adapted from Scott Brundage Illustration . Who are you? roared the Cyclops. I’m terrified , I whispered back. And wel...
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poetry
GRAVE DIGGER
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Carolyn Gregory He digs his own grave, throwing in the bones of other dead men first— a femur and skull from a couple of immigrants climb...
Vietnam War
Vietnam War
IMMIGRANT
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Alan Catlin Does it matter? Now, here, today That they were grunts in Vietnam, her father, uncles, cousins and that she the niece, daught...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
words
words
TWO POEMS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Michael H. Brownstein Image source: Odyssey ONE MONTH AND WE ARE ALREADY EXHAUSTED The eighteen wheeler tortoise stepped, jerked, fell ba...
Monday, February 27, 2017
ship of fools
ship of fools
THE SHIP OF FOOLS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Darrell Petska In Plato's Republic a ship of fools sailed— can you see one now, just rounding the bend? Already the ship lists heavi...
Sunday, February 26, 2017
shotgun
shotgun
SELECTIVE MEMORY AS FUTURE TOPIC FOR AN ELEGY
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Lyndi Bell O'Laughlin The “good old days” induce a thin, waxy coating on the outermost cells of the lining of the throat, carry a sub...
uranium
uranium
WHAT T***P WAS REALLY SAYING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Kathleen A. Lawrence Image by DonkeyHotey a word collage from T***p’s 2/15/17 press conference I’m not ranting and ravi...
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Saturday, February 25, 2017
warm weather
warm weather
FALSE SPRING (OR NOT)
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Joan Colby Giraffes at the Brookfield (IL) Zoo enjoyed the unseasonably warm, spring-like weather on Saturday. — WLS , February 18, 2017....
poetry
poetry
THREE EGRETS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Buff Whitman-Bradley As we stand outside the bank Holding signs To protest profiteering From the ravaging of our environment Three egrets...
Friday, February 24, 2017
witch trials
witch trials
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Nancy Iannucci Bridget Bishop’s tavern was a bump on a buggy ride from Salem Village to Salem Town
where the menfolk congregated like h...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
BORDER/NO BORDER
Sean Lenon
3:00 AM
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle A woman traveling alone with her infant, seeming to understand that she will be arrested, walks toward Canadian pol...
truth
truth
ACCOUNTABLE
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
Jim Hanson is a retired Senior Researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale where he worked and taught in community development. H...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
valentine
valentine
FOR LAWRENCE KING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Danielle Shorr It is valentines day again Larry is putting on his black boots zipping them up smoothly, he knows a thing or two about co...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
ruggesd individualism
ruggesd individualism
THE NEW AMERICA: BRING YOUR OWN DEATH
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by George Salamon "As states have faced challenges to carrying out executions by lethal injections, various work-arounds and alternati...
Monday, February 20, 2017
women
women
MY QUESTIONS FOR ANY WOMAN WHO HAS ESCAPED FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Sean Lenon
2:00 AM
by Sister Lou Ella Hickman Advertising campaigtn by Greg Wong for Restore NYC - Awareness for Sex-Trafficked Survivors In honor of Restore...
