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BY Michael Finley

Dear friends: mid-June I have been writing using some weblog software called Xanga, instead of posting formal essays at this location. Why not click on the link and visit the blog? It feels friendlier, folksier, and less "on stage" to me. It's more like you've settled down with a cool drink under some quality ceiling fans and are just visiting on a lazy afternoon. Thanks a bunch - Mike

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A Sadness in Autopia

The Perfect Anti-War Poem

Pissed Off Poet

The Triumph of Memory

I Have a Theory

Evil Is As Evil Does

Basement Toilet

Nincompoops

The Last Turkey

Good Intentions

Who Are You?

What the World Needs Now

Springsteen for President

Anton's Syndrome

Army Corps of Engineers

Politics and Personality

Katherine Kersten

Go Deep (November 23, 2002)

Take Michael's Child (November 22, 2002)

Army Corps of Engineers (November 18, 2002)

Yavneh (November 14, 2002

What would Jesus Drive? (November 14, 2002)

Talking John Birch Society Blues (November 11, 2002)

The Fritz Song (November 3, 2002)

Humor Memes (November 2, 2002)

Envy (Garrison Keillor) 

Hidden Falls (October 31, 2002)

Teams & Terror (October 18, 2002)

Finding Work After 50
(September 11, 2002)

Burntside
(August 9, 2002)

Paula Kelly
(August 4, 2002)

But the city beckoned
(July 29, 2002)

On the Cod
(July 23, 2002)

The Rains Came
(June 21, 2002)

Meatballs
(June 27, 2002)

Hiatus
(June 17, 2002)

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