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‘Checking the Property’

July 3, 2015 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Poetry Leave a Comment

For the Fourth of July, Independence Day, here’s a poem from the nation’s capital. I wrote this prose poem after a family trip to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2004. There were John Kerry-for-President signs in the windows. GOP posters for “W,” too. Barack Obama was a figure on…

‘Checking the Property’

January 15, 2012 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell, Poetry, Election 2012 Leave a Comment

With Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. being remembered tomorrow in a special way across the nation, I went back to a prose poem written after a family visit to Washington, D.C., in the early summer of 2004, another presidential election year. We were months away from seeing Barack Obama make news with a…