Monthly Archives: January 2016

Lenin’s Wife

Posted on January 31, 2016 by toritto

Everyone knows of Lenin.  His body is still on display in the great Kremlin square, once known as Red Square, for those with a bit of ghoulishness in their souls to see.  His name and statues have been taken down … Continue reading →

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Into Exile

Posted on January 30, 2016 by toritto

I walk the old streets and realize they tore down the Endicott Theater to put up a savings bank in the same space where Poppa and I saw “Blood and Sand”. And Fat Tony’s Luncheonette where we’d stroll for a … Continue reading →

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Forsaken

Posted on January 29, 2016 by toritto

Sit not in your darkened room alone and brooding feeling forsaken by the Fates the sounds of the living rising from the streets. Mourn not uselessly your luck that’s failing now; your plans, your hopes all gone awry. Instead prepare … Continue reading →

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Flint and Small Government

Posted on January 28, 2016 by toritto

I read an interesting quote a few days ago. “Flint is a conservative’s idea of smaller government”. Boy does that resonate. “The city, after years of cutbacks, was placed under a state appointed emergency manager in 2011 who had the … Continue reading →

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An Italian City in Africa

Posted on January 26, 2016 by toritto

There is a dreamscape city in Africa. A time warp city where you walk in 1930’s Italy, where the buildings are in the “modernist” future style befitting the capital of the new Fascist Italian Empire in Africa. It is still there … Continue reading →

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Fascism and America’s Ruling Elites

Posted on January 25, 2016 by toritto

  A Repost Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler … Continue reading →

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Eight Days Till Iowa

Posted on January 24, 2016 by toritto

Well in eight days the voting begins in Iowa and the Sunday news talk shows feature the Donald and Bernie (not together!) putting their talking points out there for our consumption. The Donald is back on top over Ted Cruz … Continue reading →

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Describing Her in Words

Posted on January 23, 2016 by toritto

Half of her is woman ripe like an apple the other half impossible to describe. . Words escape me I have none I kiss her eyes her hands her lips. . She is fire yet I cannot keep from the flame She is flowing holy water and I thirst at her gushing … Continue reading →

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Sex on the Square

Posted on January 21, 2016 by toritto

Sex on the Square So what do you think your old, decrepit retired parents are doing in Florida? Waiting to die? Frogs waiting to croak? Your mom or dad, alone, lonely, sitting with her head on the kitchen table? Poor … Continue reading →

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Mom Would Have Been 93

Posted on January 20, 2016 by toritto

Mom, me with the glasses and my two brothers.  The baby is already gone My mother Mary would have been 93 years old this week. She is gone longer than she was here – she will be gone 50 years on … Continue reading →

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