John N Varnell

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Straight Jacket No One Sees

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jan 12, 2012, 5:34 am
A timeshare vacation in an outpatient clinic,
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Leningrad's Sister City And Her Cuban Sandwiches

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jan 4, 2012, 4:27 am
It began not so innocently with voyeuristic tendencies.
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A Pending Eviction

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jan 2, 2012, 5:46 am
Cocteau Twins , Kandi Kane & vodka,
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Quiet Blue Nothing

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jan 2, 2012, 5:06 am
Blue Flame at its edges. Blue. My favorite color; My favorite music.
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Beware The Spinning Suns

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jan 2, 2012, 4:48 am
They emanate from big beautiful brown eyes. Innocent eyes that have seen too much, and want answers. Eyes that beg to relax during sleep. He has my eyes.
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Hammer Of The Gods

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jan 1, 2012, 5:56 am
As it drifted off course, something was built. A routine that kept me alive.
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It's in the Eyes

John N Varnell posted an article on - Oct 29, 2011, 1:01 am
A vital part of the Good Men Project is to model the behavior we espouse and discuss here, safe within the confines of our “Project.” It is all smoke and mirrors or bullshit if we don’t.
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Who Are The Ninety – Nine Percent ?

John N Varnell posted an article on - Oct 23, 2011, 10:30 pm
I continued work during treatment while fighting incredible and sometimes debilitating side effects. A few weeks before I completed treatment. I was laid off. Insurance was canceled and access to Doctors stopped. Treatment never completed. No followup medically done.
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A Day of #Occupy WallStreet and SlutWalk- By Rachel Rabbit White And The Good Men Project

John N Varnell posted an article on - Oct 8, 2011, 8:48 pm
Rachel Rabbit White believes that both protests are fighting a similar evil; of the same generation. “A generation who want better. And who are out doing something to get it.”
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A Prison Poem From a Youthful Offender – Day One In 18 x 80

John N Varnell posted an article on - Oct 4, 2011, 1:40 am
A Description Of Day One In an 18 x 80 Foot Dormitory For A Youthful Offender in 1980 – A Broadside Poem By Jack Varnell -
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Wolves at Bay: A Poem About a Partner's Abuse

John N Varnell posted an article on - Oct 1, 2011, 3:15 am
I loved you enough to not understand. I could not fully relate or sympathize. I did not really want to, even if I could have. Whatever he, -or they, did with you, -or to you, will die with you, though it lives, churning in you now.
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Occupy Wall Street: Is It Really Happening? from Amy King

John N Varnell posted an article on - Sep 29, 2011, 6:08 pm
So you say you are a poet?....A writer? ...A fucking revolutionary ? Prove it. Occupy Wall Street: Is It Really Happening? from Amy King ** AND JUST WHAT IS IT? MEDIA BLACKOUT? YOU TELL ME. ** * Join the Poetry@WallStreet on Facebook - * Poets Occupy Wall Street and Next Phil...
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100 Thousand Poets for Change

John N Varnell posted an article on - Sep 19, 2011, 3:23 am
The Good Men Project seeks to open up the discussion about what it means to be a man in the 21st century. We think Michael Rothenberg, and the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Movement, are a pretty good example of what that means.
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Pyramids Hiding Gold

John N Varnell posted an article on - Sep 14, 2011, 4:06 am
There was no spin. No angle then. They had no press secretaries, ad agencies, or need for image consultants.
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Why 'Carry on With Your Daily Lives' Doesn't Make Sense to Me

John N Varnell posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 1:52 pm
Jack Varnell wonders, “Has our kick the ass of the world, Billy Bad ass, macho attitude contributed in some way to where we are now?”
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"The Curse of the Reformed Liar" at The Good Men Project

John N Varnell posted an article on - Sep 7, 2011, 4:19 pm
"The Curse of the Reformed Liar" at The Good Men Project
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Lexicon Of The Orphanage Represented at Escape Into Life

John N Varnell posted an article on - Aug 31, 2011, 1:24 pm
If you have your finger to the pulse of the on-line poetry scene you may already be familiar with poet Jack Varnell. It is also possible you are familiar with the works of The Emotional Orphan. What you might not know is that Jack Varnell is The Emotional Orphan.
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Pig Feet

John N Varnell posted an article on - Aug 28, 2011, 5:22 am
...unheard sound of stitches ripping offered another shot at the same old thing...
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Putting the Dog To Sleep Tonight — Scott Wannberg

John N Varnell posted an article on - Aug 20, 2011, 10:44 pm
Putting the Dog To Sleep Tonight -- Scott Wannberg
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Touch Poet Series #14

John N Varnell posted an article on - Aug 14, 2011, 5:09 am
Not every Daddy liv'd honor.
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A Goodreads Review of "Flatrock"

John N Varnell posted an article on - Aug 8, 2011, 3:37 am
If you love poetry you need to read this book. If you wrote off poetry, you need to read this book. If you don't know anything about poetry, you need to read this book. There are lessons to be learned, and an emotional roller coaster waiting to be ridden in its pages.
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The Naysayers

John N Varnell posted an article on - Aug 5, 2011, 5:56 am
I hate the way the world is. I hate the cheaters prospering. The liars being seen as the way.
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I Wish I'd Learned To Dance

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 30, 2011, 4:44 am
No dropped slippers or pumpkin chariots. Simply gone.
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It Will All Be Alright…

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 28, 2011, 8:34 pm
A sour demeanor barely concealed by a well practiced smile, gives me away every time.
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I Feel, I Would

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 28, 2011, 1:48 am
I feel More than I am used to I watch and you move Like I want to...
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Survivors Guilt -and "other questions"

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 25, 2011, 6:17 pm
I am filled with the fact that I am not dead.
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My Blues Truth

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 24, 2011, 4:06 am
Painters and Poets present my life to me beautiful - tragic – comedy.
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Wormwood, Poppy, And Nightshade Go Postal

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 15, 2011, 3:04 am
Seek out ultimate sin in Sinless City. Or go away quietly. There is nothing left for you Where the flat-lands meet the mountains.
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Silencio = Muerte

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 12, 2011, 10:31 pm
Unseen evidence, False truths take their comfort and grow.
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The Invisible Man

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 8, 2011, 1:18 am
I close my eyes. It hurts to see so clearly Finally I sleep. The invisible man remains, never to be seen again.
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Same Old Testament

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 5, 2011, 3:24 am
So what shall I do? Sleep in the belly of a whale?
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Shards

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 5, 2011, 2:42 am
Shards of silver plastic...
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sep·sis

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jul 1, 2011, 3:08 pm
pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins
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Secret Lies of Success

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 30, 2011, 4:52 am
Secrets and lies coded into these words. Never explain them. Blood from my fingertips against plastic Print screen... that's how they got here.
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A Blurb About "The Lexicon Of The Orphanage" by U.K. Poet-Author, Fran Lock

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 28, 2011, 6:33 am
In this way the collection vigorously eschews the navel-gazing all too familiar to modern poetry. It exalts, most of all, in communication, in establishing a connection between the writer and the reader and shocking the latter from their passive art-imbibing complacency.
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The Lexicon Of The Orphanage

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 23, 2011, 6:22 pm
A collection of contemporary broadside poems. Focused on paying homage to the age old printing tradition of broadsides as art and literature.
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Filia: A Life Saved

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 19, 2011, 4:19 pm
Heaven is much wiser than I, or you would be here.
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From Fetal Position to False Labor

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 19, 2011, 2:58 am
I left the fetal position. Changed my mind.
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Frame of Reference

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 18, 2011, 5:21 am
the face behind the shards shines through. shattered, slivered faces...
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Three Muses (Edema, Ascites and Anasarca)

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 17, 2011, 1:37 am
Effusion of fluid into the extracellular space makes it hard to breathe.
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Protected: test

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 15, 2011, 3:13 am
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Authorial

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 12, 2011, 5:20 am
Which is mightier? the pen the sword, or pistol?
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Daily at Starbucks

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 10, 2011, 1:37 am
No need for words, their boring report, because the news was good. Expertly crafted for, and dually purposed to wash brains.
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Threadbare

John N Varnell posted an article on - Jun 10, 2011, 1:26 am
I don't hear only what I want. I only hear the other voices.
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Barn-Alpharetta, Ga

John N Varnell posted an article on - May 30, 2011, 5:12 pm
houses always folding back in to the land, belying their henge composition, their ancient bog-anatomy
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Coppery Red, White, and Blue

John N Varnell posted an article on - May 30, 2011, 12:40 pm
He Stood there. Statuesque. Framed in the doorway.
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Flatrock by Fran Lock | Little Episodes

John N Varnell posted an article on - May 28, 2011, 3:43 am
Dont be stupid…buy this book…It will make up for your silly obsession with the Royal Wedding.   Flatrock by Fran Lock | Little Episodes. ‘Fran Lock uses words as tools, or sometimes weapons, to aid her personal journey of inner exploration: a brutal but str...
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New Tumblr Photos…emotionalorphan

John N Varnell posted an article on - May 28, 2011, 3:07 am
New Tumblr Photos...emotionalorphan
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Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died : The Record : NPR

John N Varnell posted an article on - May 28, 2011, 12:58 am
Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died : The Record : NPR.   Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the...
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What do you want in life ?

John N Varnell posted an article on - May 27, 2011, 5:51 am
"What do you want in life ?" I asked in the moonlight.
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