The Real Struggle

By Gabriela Anaya Valdepeña
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They say, when one is beheaded,
the brain, for a few seconds,
can perceive its loss.
The mind thinks, untroubled by its limbs.
Not like dreaming, when
you run, you skip, you fly, you lie
in your coffin and stare at yourself,
then wake, limbs innocent but fatigued.

Forget class and religion. The real struggle
is between those who dream and those
who would not be troubled by them;
between those who would go to the guillotine
before they would burn a book, and those
who love the smell of burning pages.

A dreamer’s bones grow brittle, like everyone else
but their minds never ossify.
Dreamers care for the sheep
Discarded after the sleepy count;
do those snoozers think
they vanish like unwanted pounds?
When someone thins,
the air grows fatter.
That is the law of things.

Winter is Here

A snowflake has fallen
a fly dies
The leaves are brown
on forlorn trees
A child's mitten lays,
frozen and forgotten.

TV antennas on roofs
in buildings dilapitated.
my city is gray
the streets empty,
except for the elderly
who clean after their pets.

As I lay down,
the coffin closes,
my life is forgotten
my dreams gone.
Long did I labor,
only dogs bawl.

By: Can't remember who wrote this
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The Clock of the Years

Every man
is his own clock
Tic toc

he may rise
by the sun
and go to sleep
with the stars
Tic toc

but if he
take stock
and come to knock
at fate’s door
he may find
that he himself
has sprung the lock
against himself.

Useless
to knock
now, the door
will not open—
save only
at the shock
of love,
to deliver him
from that block,
unlock,
his heart and
set it beating again:

Tic toc
Tic toc
tic toc!

by William Carlos Williams
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An Alternative Theory on the Causes of the Russian Revolution

Before reading this posting, I ask you, the reader, to get a good bottle of Russian vodka, e. g., Stolichnaya, Staraya Moskva or any other brand. If you can’t find Russian vodka, go domestic. The important thing is to have a bottle of vodka with you before you read on.

Take a healthy slug of vodka to get you started. Now read on
This month marks the 96th Anniversary of the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution--which occurred in November 1917.

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However, the October 25, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution occurred on November 7, 1917 as the Russians, true to fashion, used the Julian calendar which was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar – which most other nations used. Confused? Read on

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The common view of the causes of the Russian Revolution holds that it occurred as a result of the misery of World War 1, disaffection in the army, the corruption and incompetence of the Tsar and his government, Rasputin, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, etc.

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After much research, consultation of obscure Slavonic treatises and just plain pondering, I have concluded that this view is incorrect.

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My theory is that the Russian Revolution did not occur from those causes at all. I have tested and re-tested this theory over many a glass of vodka and it always seem to make sense in the end.

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Rather, I posit that the real cause of the Russian Revolution was the realization by the Russian peasants that the Tsar and the Czar were one in the same person.

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