July 10, 2017
I remember hawking the Philadelphia Bulletin on boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J. when Son of Sam was captured. It was August of 1977 and I was 10 years old. I should have been scared that summer, reading each day about how he had killed six people and wounded seven and left letters for police […]
She was ditzy in that way he was learning
the really smart girls could be,
as if thoughts and notions were knocking
the pictures off the walls of her mind
in an internal tussle.
But how smart was he,
here on the toilet lid with a beer bottle
between his legs and an ice cube
pressed against his ear lobe
as she […]
Now is not the time for squirming,
unless of course some angry guy on TV
says we should squirm if we really love America.
*
Now is not the time to duck,
unless of course some drive-time radio
panic artist tells us to get under the table.
[…]
Harp
The bar is dim and not crowded. Grayish white soot is tracked across the white tile floor. It coats my black shoes and the bottoms of my pant legs. Noel, the bartender with the brogue, sets a pint of Harp in front of me. I tip it back, the cool lager sluicing away the soot that coats my throat. “Crazy day,” Noel says, both asking and telling.
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That’s what you get if you win a round the Samoan said after my right cross glanced off his cheek and his response shifted my nose from the center of my face to somewhere near my right ear.
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It took about a week for the Polish nun who ruled supreme over my 2nd grade class to notice I had stopped praying aloud like my classmates who dutifully repeated the Our Father and Hail Mary spelled out on the chalk board.
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A POLITICAL-action committee set up to help Gov. Corbett win re-election received nearly $1 million from a billionaire casino investor who was barred from making political contributions in Pennsylvania.
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BY CHRIS BRENNAN
THE MORE Gov. Corbett talks, it seems, the closer Democrats get to defeating him next year.
Corbett, a governor with a gift for gaffes, talked a politically bad situation into a much bigger problem yesterday during a television interview in Harrisburg.
Corbett then had to apologize for his remark – comparing same-sex marriage to brother-sister […]
By CHRIS BRENNAN
STATE SEN. Mike Stack sounds close to announcing a run for governor in the 2014 Democratic primary election.
The four-term senator from Northeast Philly and his family could also be close to a multimillion-dollar jackpot if developer Steve Wynn wins a license to build a casino on the banks of the Delaware River in […]
