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All this contradictory newsobviously spewsdigitized perplexities of truth:
clattering electrons andcross-eyed geesesparkly and smartly sneezingliberal this, conservative that;
flying smack-dabbit into windowstranslucent glass wallstransparently hiding all.
Facts splatter and smatter intodigitized quacksof shattered glass.
Meaningless terabytesand featherless wingsremain.
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About the writer
John Unger. John Unger teaches English for Academic Purposes and English composition at Georgia Gwinnett College, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA. Before he was in higher education, John was in the U.S. Navy for four years and worked for fifteen seasons on coastal and deep-sea commercial fishing vessels in the Northern Pacific, Gulf of Alaska, and Bering Sea. He has published creative non-fiction in Hippocampus magazine and the Human Touch, poetry in Aberration Labyrinth and The Human Touch, and applied linguistic papers in English Scholarship Beyond Borders, the Journal of Language and Literacy Education, and the Journal of College Reading and Learning.
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