Day: April 3, 2023

The Book Club is the new Salon (If I have anything to say about it)

The Book Club is the new Salon (If I have anything to say about it)

In my sophomore year of college, I took an English course with a young, fiery-tongued professor; who used the class as a…place to vent his worldly frustrations, as well as an incubator for the future.  We traipsed through books that could also be journalistic variations on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.  No Logo comes to mind, highlighting the plight of sweatshop and factory work.  

GIVEN UP

Itriedtobreathe.And I    triedTo fight                        the wayMy lungs don’t             seem to want toWork. They don’t          seem to care thatEvery breath is              hard to evenBreathe. Every              time I inhale itIt only hurts more.         So, should I giveUp, like my lungs          Have clearly givenUp on        me?

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