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Talking about the hard edges
Unlearning "well actually."
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Joel Byron Barker
His Name is (still) Dave
Small town life, if you can keep it
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Leo Schuman
1

August 2024

Staying and leaving:
Tim, JD, and Me sitting on a tailgate drinking coffee
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Joel Byron Barker
1
Cultural Welfare Queens
Who makes your meaning?
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Leo Schuman
3
All that is common is cheap
The relative weight of tears wept for a dead crow versus a dead eagle.
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Joel Byron Barker
Towards Revolution
Revolutions bronze people into characters. They become heroes and villains bonded to their time, their chapter, their revolution.
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Joel Byron Barker

July 2024

Bump Stock
"You got me jerkin' back and forth" - Devo
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Leo Schuman
1
Other Than Correct, Obvious, and Good; being a person is complicated
On Ivy Brashear's essay “The Appalachia I Know is Very Much Alive”
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Joel Byron Barker
In Our Time of Violence
Publishing out of our normal time. I need to talk about why Leo and I put in this effort.
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Joel Byron Barker
Boom-Boom
Does the Fourth of July still mean anything? What is that?
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Leo Schuman
1
All Nevers Are Is
The unsolved question of why we do stuff.
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Joel Byron Barker

June 2024

Don't Call it a Divide.
It is not the urban-rural divide; it is our interchange.
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Joel Byron Barker
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