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I Believe… [Too Much Absence]
Don Hall
I Believe… [Too Much Absence]
Don Hall

...that some absence makes the heart grow fonder; too much absence makes the heart forget.

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Don Hall
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BUGHOUSE!
Nov 18
BUGHOUSE!

It’s BACK! Chicago’s most entertaining debate show—Six debaters, three topics, the art of the dialectic!

Five bucks at the door (Cash or Venmo)

Haymarket Pub & Brewery, 737 W. Randolph (the corner of Randolph & Halsted)

 

In the Springtime of My Dystopia
Elizabeth Harper, Poetry Elizabeth Harper Elizabeth Harper, Poetry Elizabeth Harper

In the Springtime of My Dystopia

There were signs. There were warnings.
We were too in love to pay much attention.
It was merely some background noise,
some clatter, inconvenient clutter.
What were those politicians droning on about?
Overly made-up talk show hosts harping on about
nonsense, trivialities, invented crises.
Grown men wearing the flag like a toga
or burning it in acts of performance art largesse.

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