HeyJaredSilly Games to Save the World
Politics, Philosophy, Poetry, and Silly Games - new ways to wonder WTF just happened
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Can I write a poem please? (opens the original)
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Why not NOT write poems? (opens the original)
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‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach…’Is one of the most disgusting and misguided proverbs still flogging its useless wares around the modern psyche. I’d like to upend it in a way I hope is of interest. I am a very capable teacher of writing poetry. I’m about to begin a new term with redoubled confidence and wonder, but I don’t write poems these days, haven’t for ages, don’t know when I will. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jppq!,f_auto,q_auto:goo
EPISODE NINE: ‘There-there, lord of the world...’ (opens the original)
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Previously on Glyn…Because I want to start my book and tell you everything I feel, I feel I can tell you nothing till I do, you’re mostly writers, you know what I mean, you can’t spill it out the sides, so I’m posting miscellaneously and trying to keep you in the boat, bear with me if you will…My book will be called Making Better - with the stress on either word - it will also be called New Hope for the Self, the Kind and the World… I actually mean all this.<h3 style="tex
EPISODE EIGHT: ‘Lake Ontario is the Mestor Water...’ (opens the original)
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Previously on After Troy… In all innocence, the kindly Greek Talthybius had escorted Andromache to see her little son Astyanax in the ‘children’s camp’. He’s about to find out why… Mestor calls his island Mestor, and his infant sons New Mestor and Small Mestor… He calls the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mestor and Lake Ontario the Mestor Water… He is besotted with Cassandra, who knows that his eyes are go
EPISODE SEVEN: ‘What lights the heavens lights the world...’ (opens the original)
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Previously on After Troy…Polyxena, a girl the Greeks are about to slaughter to appease the ghost of Achilles, reminds Agamemnon of his daughter Iphigenia, a girl who was slaughtered to appease oh for fucks sake grow up…Anyway Polyxena’s happy to die, so at least someone’s happy… Kratos, a bit of a shit, brings in Mestor, a total shit, to mess with the sleeping women…<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-i
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