By Edgar Clinton, Jr. The living dead are spread through many a tribe You’ve seen them friend I’ve been them Even half alive Is a lot Convinced as we are of what we are not Living the lie Believing the cover Story that’s kept us (As much as may be allowed) Alive Embracing the part [...]

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From Gene’s Notebook …eating at our favorite veggie restaurant, La Naranja, on First Street, south of Morelos, in Matamoros, we’re eating and talking, and two men at the table tell us that their electrical-component companies are closing in Matamoros and are moving to China; the men, as engineers, have a chance to go to China [...]

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by Gene Novogrodsky The shop owners and the salesgirls Stand under the overhang, out of the rain. The owners hand tens and twenties, And the girls take them, putting their plastic Bags on the sidewalk: week’s wages to hand; Discounts-given clothes …. The girls, in twos, threes and fours, Walk down the sidewalk, some umbrellas [...]

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