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The Forgotten Drug War: Dorothy Sullivan, Informant (Chicago, 1941)
“There was not the least sign of social disorder in 1942”
—Daniel Patrick Moynihan, speaking at the 100 Years of Heroin Conference, Yale University, 1998
Dorothy Sullivan was an informant for the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. On Tuesday, January 22, 1942, she was scheduled to testify in federal court in support of the government’s case against two men charged with heroin sales. She never made it to court. Instead, she fell, screaming and on fire, from eighth floor of a South Dearborn office building. Passers-by described looking up when they heard screams, and seeing what looked like a “flaming bundle of rags” plunging to the street. Dorothy Sullivan was killed instantly when she hit the ground, just one of an uncounted number of narcotics informants to meet a violent end over the course of the war on drugs. Their stories are rarely told.
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from Issue #8: Poetry by Floyd Salas
Photo (CC) G&R @ Flickr
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My Brother
He was bent in the shadow
of the same father
wore the same anvil of ignorance
like a hexer’s charm
round his neck
But he glowed like a dark sun
while I was shrouded
black and white
and dusk grey
where the skin showed
Grey is the truer color
I wear it like a dark shroud
White is seen at dark
when only the lamp has eyes
But black catches the light more
like windshields in July heat
and hot tar on a wide street
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New Year’s Eve
The moon goes down in the crowd’s eyes
by half
sinking into the sunken lid
The black night cups the crowd’s horror
It will spill it back again
in the cold day
when vacant eyesockets hold yellow pools
of stale rainwater
and face powder
streaks its white masks
Pinpoint the spot
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This Asteroid Will Come Eerily Close to Earth on Halloween
A recently-discovered asteroid named 2015 TB145 will come within 1.3 lunar distances of Earth on Oct. 31, 2015. (Illustration by J. Major.)
Yes, it’s true: a rather not-so-tiny near-Earth asteroid SKULL-SHAPED ZOMBIE COMET (see below) 2015 TB145 will make a relatively close pass by our dear planet Earth on October 31, aka Halloween — the day when certain beliefs profess that the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest, allowing spiritual and even physical interaction to occur between both.
Of course there is no scientific evidence that the latter is at all true but it makes for good scary stories around the light of a campfire. And as the first-world campfires of today are the stark lights of computer monitors and smartphone screens, some are trying to weave scary stories about the passing of this asteroid as well. Should you be afraid? Certainly not. (But there is a cautionary tale to be told.)
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The Drama, The Suspense, The Thrill of a Wildebeest Crossing
Seeing the Sorrow Anew: Recapturing the Reality of Suffering Through Srebrenica
FOSSA COMUNE
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