Downstate Bill Johnstone I certainly do not want

I certainly do not want to remember all the times when we wrote to each other and burned our words: we were surveyed twenty-four hours a day for the last five years that I lived in my country and everything we said was recorded by microphones set up around the house

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Mike Figgis

One of those rights is freedom of speech

Iman Mersal: Poem The Clot

Downstate Bill Johnstone I certainly do not wantThe poems in Downstate recount journeys from David Gardiner's native Chicago and Polish neighborhoods of his childhood, to the Southern territories of his distant American past, to the contemporary Ireland where he has lived over the past twenty years. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: "The truth is, that, every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors. Human blood, in