Photo: Billie Holiday, with her Chihuahuas.

Photographer unknown—TinEye found three matches, none with attribution.

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Poem: Fall

 By Jack Brummet

The problems arise when falling

Becomes not falling,

Or, the uncontrolled landing problem.
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Poem: Mission Statement

By Jack Brummet

You don't need to see
A discounted cash flow analysis.

You only need to know
If the right people are in your pocket,

And, if not, whom should be bought off,
Scared off, or bumped off?
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Drawing: Faces #939 - smudged

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Tendrils

By Jack Brummet

When a tree is chopped down

Volunteer shoots sprout

From the roots,

Sending out tendrils of life 

In an urgent last gasp

— A genetic S.O.S.— 

Like what they say 

Happens 

When you hang a man.

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Drawing: Faces No. 938 - sections

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces No. 934

By Jack Brummet

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Drawing: Faces No. 937

By Jack Brummet

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Poem: Potential

By Jack Brummet

In your chest beats

The heart of a Good Samaritan

Who never quite got off

The starting blocks

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Poem: Resurrection

By Jack Brummet

He was ready to live again

Even if living just meant running

To keep ahead of the ghosts.

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Painting: Hurricane

By Jack Brummet

[Acrylic, pencil, and pen and ink on primed stretched canvas, 3' x 4' n a barn wood frame]

click to enlarge

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The topless photo removed from Chelsea Handler's Instagram Account

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

In a bit of not really controversial news today, Instagram removed a photo of Chelsea Handler (parodying Vladimir Putin on horseback) from her Instagram (http://instagram.com/chelseahandler) page.  This is the photo:

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