Ames Progressive

After buying some overpriced, imported soap on the ped mall and joining an anti-war march I’d happened across, I sit in a coffee shop, read Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist (an old recommendation from JC), satisfy my ever-growing need for caffeine and await E’s arrival.
I call B, my last Iowa City contact who hasn’t moved to [...]

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I read with great interest a Tribune article about the effort to add needed programs at our state prisons, which would help rehabilitate citizens: jail diversion, drug courts, mental health programs. California has an alternative system in place which has saved the state billions of dollars, as well as saved families, children, and communities.
I was [...]

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In a sea of polo-clad Midwestern boys and carefully made-up sorority girls, Troy Cairo isn’t hard to miss. A brooding artist attached to his iPod by day and a pink sunglasses and white suit clad DJ by night, Cairo, better known as DJ Kinky Kyro, is a regular fixture at the Bali Satay House on [...]

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when space eats the sun,
we will try to make sense of our hero: ourselves.
i am going to clone myself and then kill and eat the clone.
i will kill my hero with my eyes open the whole time.
and i know
that where there are holes in the ground,
water will fill when it falls.
an open hand, the same [...]

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