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The difficulty of truly communicating

    Talkers Sometimes you send a message and it travels along as if passed to an intention-ed recipient by a code, Or it reaches a synapses in the transport system; sits stagnant in some back mail room, or stuck among a server’s bits and bytes. How difficult it seems to vocalize the sounds. Write, or […]

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A Dime for My Thoughts

The Mercury dime is a ten-cent coin struck by the United States Mint from 1916 to 1945. Designed by Adolph Weinman and also referred to as the Winged Liberty Head dime, it gained its common name as the obverse depiction of a young Liberty, identifiable by her winged Phrygian cap, was confused with the Roman god Mercury. Weinman is believed to have used Elsie Stevens, the wife […]

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Ghosts—-modern technology

Ghosts Modern technology allowsthe capturing of momentsfrom the outside in. Video& audio actions seized,then flattened in pixelsand .wav files: 1’s & 0’s. While posing uneasily for onequick pic, Mother stands in herwrinkled Muumuu promptlymuttering,“Oh, stow that damn camera.” Through diagonal TV images, you…Voyeur, perhaps even Gravedigger, nowreliving moments gone like lost breaths. You pause the […]

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