Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
Scroll through and read the best of new poetry from all corners of the world: THANK GOD FOR PEARL, by Dennis De Rose https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-thank-god-for-pearl-by-dennis-de-rose/ SUPER GEEZERS, by Bob Grant https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-super-geezers-by-bob-grant/ PARENTAL LAMENT, by Mike Reed https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-parental-lament-by-mike-reed/ THE TUNNEL PERFORMANCE SOCIETY, by Bob Eager https://festivalforpoetry.com/2018/03/09/read-poetry-the-tunnel-performance-society-by-bob-eager/ STILL SHE RISES, by Deepika Janiyani…
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Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese
Originally posted on Twenty Four Frames:
Every serious film lover sees a film that once in awhile affects you so deeply that it changes your life. You look at the screen and you say to yourself, yes this is what it is all about, this is why I love movies; this is why I sit…
Thieves Like Us, A Novel by Edward Anderson; Depression Era; Inspired by the exploits of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
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Thieves Like Us, A Novel by Edward Anderson; Depression Era; Based on the Exploits of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Part Three “And then damn Bonnie and Clyde ran through there. Weren’t safe for no one. Bunch of mad dogs…” Pretty Boy Floyd Clyde could barely walk. Bonnie couldn’t at all. They’d been ambushed and shot through the legs while rendezvousing with family members on the side of a back road. Blood gushed from the […]
Thieves Like Us, A Novel by Edward Anderson; Depression Era; Inspired By The Exploits Of Bonnie Parker And Clyde Barrow
Conclusion My babysitter, Betty, God rest her soul, hardly ever got to eat chocolate when she was a child. There were several reasons for this, namely: (1) it was the Depression; (2) she was poor; and (3) she was Black. It was such a rare occurrence, in fact, that she’d tasted chocolate only once before–when […]
The Vanishing 1988; a film directed by George Sluizer; Dutch
God forbid that it ever happens to one of us: a loved one leaves, never to return. There is no dreaded call from the hospital or the police. There is nothing. He just doesn’t come home for dinner. She never shows up for work. They seemingly vanish; into thin air as it were. How could […]