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I was supposed to put this on another page, but it is not working out the way I planned.  It is moving to the front page of this blog. "Suicide's Note" by Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. I love, love, love, Langston Hughes.  I miss him too, although I don't see how a person can miss someone they've never met, and yet it's true.  I slept with him too you know.  Earlier this year I spilled pop on  The Best of Simple,  put the book under my mattress to flatten the warp, and forgot about it for six months.  So in a manner of speaking we have been in the bed together.  Wide Awake Jake won't like this. So let's look at Hughes' brief, brilliant, and pithy poem.  How should the title be interpreted?  My first thought was the poem was written by a person who killed him or herself and left behind a note as an explanation.  Suicide is usually a consequence of depression and depression is exhausti...

Auspiciously, a few years back, I found a well written, darkly humorous compilation of short stories titled Witches Brew and edited by Yvonne Jocks.  The book contains the work of  Yeats, Ursula Le Guin,  Emily Bronte, Shirley Jackson, Louise Erdich, Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, and Anton Chekov, to name a few.  It is divided into three sections: The Wicked Witch, Witchcraft as Empowerment, and The Nature Witch. As I am reading, I see some of myself in those intensely sly and seriously clear eyed characters. Cackle cackle! I know this is off the subject, but some things have gotten so tight around me that I would vote for Christine O'Donnell if she were a good enough witch and I lived in her district.  This world could use some righteous magic.  "I Am Not a Witch..." (psychologytoday.com)  Too bad. What might be be acceptable fun is rereading some good old horror stories such as Bram Stoker's Dracula or Mary Shelly's Frank...