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Active Shooter

An original poem. Bar the doorsEveryone under your desksBe stillQuiet nowQuiet Hide where? Where tanks rolland bombs falland fields burnand flies gather? Hide under desks? There’s no school leftno hospitalno homenowhere to hide where pipes run dryand shelves are bare,where bodies are maimedand children starve Don’t call it genocide,someone might notice Quiet childrenPleasePlease be quiet…

Philosophical

The Empire Strikes Back

I started writing this in response to the news that the Republicans will have a majority in the House of Representatives. So, it’s a clean sweep: the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and of course the ongoing 6-3 revanchist majority on the Supreme Court. Come January, the Republicans will be able to start implementing their…

Cymraeg

Yr Awen

An original poem, in Welsh. O wâl y berth, bob nos o dan y sêr, yn llawn nerth, draw ar hyd y llwybrau cudd, daw ysbryd hynod, teg ar orchwyl pêr a ddysgwyd ar y cof ers llawer dydd.  Mor swil ei wedd, oes oesoedd dan ei draed,  mae’r ysbryd yn ymroi ei hun i’w…

Poetry

Sun Tzu

An original poem, in collaboration with an anonymous friend. he tells herabout this book he ordered”The Art of War,by some Chinese guy”like it’s somethingobscuresomethingshe’d never have heard of he paidtwelve dollars shipping sohow to tell himshe has at leastone copyalready

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Hi. I’m Rob.
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I’m Rob. I have a lot of interests: the Welsh language, poetry, tabletop games, speculative fiction, spaceflight, translation, hiking, travel, architecture, economics, sustainability, science, philosophy. This blog is where I think out loud.

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