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From the archive: ‘Endless Entries’ 2015
Endless EntriesPhotos and words by Samuel Webster For The Collective/Renegade Collective Magazine featuring The National Archive of Diaries
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Thoughts: Flirtation
Most days, my flirtation for you is as my aspiration for all things beautiful…
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Poem: All Those Words
A poem about art, poetry and life in a new place thinly disguised as a poem about snow.
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Dopo “Un Bès” (Progetto Ligabue)
Scritto in risposto ad “Un Bès – Antonio Ligabue” di Mario Perrotta / Progetto Ligabue Sansepolcro, Arezzo. 4 Aprile 2014.
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POEM: Listening to Billy Collins at a Bramantino Exhibition
Listening to Billy Collins at a Bramantino Exhibition (Milano 2012) It is in the sense of pace, the low tone and subtle, comforting pauses, which brings to mind the word “slowdom” and then finds it eradicated for its nearness to the word boredom which does not apply. But it is a turtle’s pace of voice, seeming to suck air out of the room so there are only words left for us to breathe upon. But I feel he would forgive the…
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A Valentine’s Card For You
“I love you too, it’s just that I left your Valentine’s card in my other coat…”
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Salvatore Ferragamo: Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Salvatore Ferragamo’s first pair of shoes probably weren’t actually his. With thirteen siblings, it’s likely Salvatore would have been gifted a pair from another now too grown to fit them.
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Remove Religion from Public Debate
The religion debate, when it is directly about religious practices, needs to happen, but for issues of ethics or legality, the debate needs to occur in the spheres of human rights and legislative process.
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POEM: Ode to Today’s Spam Artist
I thought, at first, that we might have been colleagues, or simply friends, by the way you penned your missive – as if you knew me from somewhere
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The Bracelet Men
THE BRACELET MEN Milan, Italy The bracelet men have begun to filter in, their dark complexion traversing the milquetoast tourist crowd, one drop at a time. Their exchange begins with a handshake and ends with an open palm, and the fact that they return confirms its great success. Of course, there is more than one kind of success, and successes have this way of bumping into one another: a bump which, between two strangers, happens like a mid-air collision, and…
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Not sexist, just thoughtless (A response to Annabel Crabb)
Annabel Crabb’s article “Men: all thumbs and no subtext” is arguably a sexist portrayal of all successful men.
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It’s Hard to be a Man
We are Kings, we are warriors, we are figureheads and we are immovable. We are men and we will not change.
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