Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

it will become clearer
like a used bookstore run by nuns
     in a grove of redwoods
I looked in the mirror
& couldn’t speak the language
I was able to find a waiting room
filled with blue butterflies from Mexico
I was so happy I started flying
     over the protests on a rickety bridge
a computer genius says
     there is no difference. crisp dry bacon
     kind [...]

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I know something about good songs. One was recorded about me in 1963. Maybe you’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve heard of me. My friends call me Jack. Back then I was known as Little Jackie. Back then millions of people were interested in my frolicking in the autumn mist [...]

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En Dikt Inne Minne Av
Ingmar Bergman
As I do what I do,
What I do
Pulls me through
From the present into
The future as this word
Flows from the edge
Of contained ink into
The surface of
The becoming page
Satisfying the urge
To mean something
Which I both choose
And which also hides
Unknown in the verge.

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a huge crowd stood around David
instamatics & single reflexes flashing
‘look at the veins on his hand’
everyone had come to see it, to say it
       to pay homage to this work of genius
it gave them faith in mankind
the experience was almost religious
-no one mentioned he was well-hung
the crowd was in awe
they saw what they came to see
their [...]

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Speechless when there’s
nothing to say.
Golden silence
for listening
to the meaning
in the message
the medium
for acquiring
wisdom with age.

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A Christmas Story by s.n. jacobson

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Running Laps in My Head by milta ortiz

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WINNERS versus WHINERS by charles frederickson

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GEE-WHIZARDRY by charles fredierickson

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what’s the point of using an arachnid any how by q.r. hand jr.

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I saw my friend Greg a.k.a. The Big Gun at a backyard barbeque during this past summer. We talked about old times, as people who have known each other since childhood tend to do, and at one point he mentioned one of those late-night, solve-the-world’s-problems conversations we had during our early twenties. Back [...]

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So easy to remember and so hard to forget. Lyrics that might conjure up memories of Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan or maybe Billie Holiday. Memories perhaps of them in particular or more precisely of them singing the introductory lyrics to this piece. No, in particular, this is a memory of the [...]

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With the change of seasons comes the beginning of cold and flu season. Preventing and limiting the duration of colds and flu is a household art that has broad social application especially when it comes to taking antibiotics to get rid of a cold.
Antibiotics are only effective against bacterial infections and as recently as three [...]

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Sala Thai
807 1st St., Benicia
707 745-4331
Stepping into Sala Thai’s doorway is like slipping into another world. The main room is narrow, long, and windowless. There are hints of smaller rooms to the back, and a corner to remove shoes. The long dark room is decorated with Thai crafts, carvings and material. [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week will start on Wednesday when Jupiter, the planet of growth and expansion at 23° Scorpio will square Saturn, the planet of restriction at 23° Leo. The energy expressed from this square of Jupiter with Saturn will make for a day full of restlessness [...]

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