E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

On Governor Nixon’s Advice             Ferguson is the Great Society writ large                        Roger L. Simon   Despite the bitter news we woke up to    I am determined to maintain my faith that hate shall subside and peace will prevail. Be reasonable. That's all folks have to do:    Stay calm, let America heal. (So saith this white boy, joking when a man should howl.)                                             25 xi 14 new poem by Zachary Bos

Zachary Bos Thinking of Tomorrow in a Drowsy State                                for JMD The past drains from the present – Daniel Hoffman I really mean to say instead is, come back – Denise Riley Lonely from the beginning of time until now! – Ezra Pound * * Tomorrow first thing I’m going to look straight into your sleepy eyes and urge you to make something out of the day.  Get up , I’ll say.  Shake off the dust . Get a grip of your apprehensive, self-impeding self. Scrape the green bilge out of your eye corners. You’ve got to get to it!  It’s time to let yourself be a person with full needs and urges, to be that person who wonders in your beautiful original way. I know you dream a lot about going back to that moment that ...