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Mental Disorder
A collection of written material and images
All work copyright Crawdad Nelson unless specified otherwise
Massacre in America: A way of life
Anyone surprised at the frequency and severity of massacre in modern American history doesn’t know much older American history. Since the...
The Submarine Races
There might be half a dozen cars tucked in the holes and hideouts provided by love’s anarchy on racing slicks and loose dirt dug out of...
Camp One
Forty Years Out The fog rolled in again and rolled out fatter; last night camped outside town there was an owl in a tree above the...
The World's Biggest Idiots, or Should I Say Smallest?
The central contradiction of the Confederacy—that the freedom of some depended upon the captivity of others—was the South’s inheritance...
Untitled
I sink on the tide past heaving irrigation pumps, under bridges loud with afternoon business and pleasure, every twenty minutes a pickup...
Oak Park Wildlife
Fast Food Chain Bon Faire market, about a quarter to nine, I’m standing in the cool wind handling the gas pump and a hawk loops over,...
Glass Beach Remembered
How many broken down cars got rolled over--how many old rugs-- how much paint, lying in the rocks until it burned, or got shoved a little...
Names Will Never Hurt Me but Green Plums Sure as Hell Did
Or, How To Win and Still Lose Or, Why You Should Have Your Beautiful Plan to Replace Obamcare Finished Before Winning The Election Or,...
Spotted Towhee
#owhee #towhee #river
Incantation
By crows tilting delta breezes, and ancient waterways composed of old stone, deep in the ground; by wild chicory blooming through...
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