EVERYTHING'S JAKE

Some words between friends

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Drinking Tips

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Drinking tip #1 When you’re drunk you don’t need friends. Drinking tip #2 When your friends are drunk and you’re sober, ditch them. ...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

Writing

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Writing I'm always writing.  24 hours a day I got my antenna up waiting to hear from the muse. Most of the time the signal is weak, ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

The 60s

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1960s I took acid 5 times, cocaine twice, meth too often to remember, pot about 5 times a week for 6 years, vodka/beer/tequila ju...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Milan Kundera Returns to America

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Breaking News:  Milan Kundera, the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, returns to America Milan Kundera took the bus from Pra...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

Sermon on God and Politics

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I went to a politicians forum here organized by the young democrats and young republicans and listened to 16 politicians, dems and repubs, ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Found Poem

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The Found Book: You pick up a book of poetry on the floor of your study, and you wonder where it came from. There’s nothing you remember...
Monday, July 25, 2016

USELESS WRITING = ART + GENOCIDE

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John Guzlowski
I was born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, and came with my parents Jan and Tekla and my sister Donna to the United States as Displaced Persons in 1951. My Polish Catholic parents had been slave laborers in Nazi Germany. Growing up in the immigrant and DP neighborhoods around Humboldt Park in Chicago, I met Jewish hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians. My poems try to remember them and their voices. These poems have appeared in my chapbook Language of Mules and in both editions of Charles Fishman’s anthology of American poets on the Holocaust, Blood to Remember. Since retiring from teaching American Literature in 2005, I've written two new books about my parents. My new poems about them appear in my books Echoes of Tattered Tongues (Aquila Polonica, 2017) and True Confessions (Darkhouse Books, 2019).
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