Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there.

First, a ran­dom thought:
“Nations have recently been led to bor­row bil­lions for war; no nation has ever bor­rowed largely for edu­ca­tion. Prob­a­bly, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civ­i­liza­tion. We must make our choice; we can­not have both.” Abra­ham ( Read more... )

How to Live
-Charles Harper Webb
From Amplified Dog

“I don’t know how to live.”
                    -Sharon Olds

Eat lots of steak and salmon and Thai curry and mu shu
pork and fresh green beans and baked potatoes
and fresh strawberries with vanilla ice cream.
Kick-box three days a week. Stay strong and lean.
Go fly-fishing every chance ( Read more... )

Hard Rain
-Tony Hoagland
From Hard Rain: A Chapbook

After I heard It’s a Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
played softly by an accordion quartet
through the ceiling speakers at the Springdale Shopping Mall,
I understood there’s nothing
we can’t pluck the stinger from,

nothing we can’t turn into a soft drink flavor or a t-shirt.
Even serenity can become ( Read more... )