NVN Wednesday: LETZTE GENERATION
by David Chorlton
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A scream circumnavigates the world. Is anybody listening when the police arrive to sweep away those for whom the last resort is blocking traffic to impress upon their fellow citizens the planet is on life support and the drivers only have a mile to go before the ground opens up and swallows them. Does anybody care? Call it Freedom; say Democracy until it hurts; write to the highest authority and the mail comes back as undeliverable. The future’s not the future anymore. And yet it is still beautiful when a day begins with a mountain spreading its wings and the sun breaking into song.
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David Chorlton lives in Phoenix where he writes and occasionally paints watercolors. While his writing is usually poetry, his newest book is a true life account of a murder story from 1960s Vienna (where he lived for several years) in which one of his cousins was wrongly convicted: The Long White Glove published by New Meridian Arts.
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Editor’s Note: Listen to David talk about his new book on the Word podcast (about 10 minutes in) from WJZZ.