Probably unreliable memories of Christmas past

 

Now that Christmas 2014 is becoming a memory, we have time to reflect on Christmases past (prompted, we must confess, by the delightful disclosures of Steerforth in his blog http://ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com.au/

Bad Marx for Karl

Dear Herr Doktor:

You are already 10 months behind with the manuscript of Das Kapital, which you have agreed to write for us. If we do not receive the manuscript within 6 months, we shall be obliged to commission another to do this work.

Letter to Karl Marx from his Leipzig publisher

George Plimpton The Writer’s Chapbook Viking 1989 134

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Sunday poem

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This poem first appeared in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts                                                      http://matterpress.com/journal/2014/10/13/3-poems/#more-3303

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