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Year in Review: Poe Statue

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They have a new Poe statue in Boston. He is not up on a pedestal. We'll it's modern times isn't it? He looks like a muppet. It's come to this. Welcome back to frog ponderous. At street level he can fulfill final purpose. To have his picture taken with people just off a tourist trolley people who have heard of him. And Edward Everett Hale, in peace, on  his  pedestal, in  the Public Garden , chuckles to Poe's everlasting dread .... Read the rest of the Poem   Poe's Heartfelt Lunge toward Ulame

First Sunday Poetry Reading Dec 7 1941 - You took my watch

You took my watch You took my watch You took my phone &  rent check first dear You took a walk & dint come back you put me under the bus here. In the dream upon a roof shattered the hopes to safely get down.                           - Jack Vaughan, 2014

Going Back with Garth to the Basement Pink

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I sing the cabbage electric- The factory, cybernetic

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@JackIVaughan: Silk corn husk Ruby corn beads Sprout from the earth Send message to heaven http://t.co/S496B3m8QT Reading Player Piano. And remembering the factory cybernetic. When I worked the Paste Wax line at Johnson's, we placed the lids on the cans (two of us) by hand. It could well have been the oldest line in the old factory. With so much cybernation around, it seemed primitive - something that could be automated. And I would look at the other lines (the Jubilee line with its ear shattering glass jostling was adjacent) and wonder how. Earl, the engineer, I remember him now in crew cut, white short sleeve shirt, tie, glasses and pocket protector, would come by and eye the process as well. When I worked the line. The day Pedro did not come back from lunch. To come. When I worked the line: they would pump-in Muzak. Then by syndicated radio. Once a week, in some alternating pattern related to pay day: "Whstle While you Work." One day, another s...