The Re-Con

The Re-Con

Count me out if being an American perpetuates the racist traditions of exterminating and displacing Native Americans; interning Japanese-Americans; enslaving, lynching, and murdering African Americans; and deporting Mexican, Central American, and South American asylum-seekers

By Randy Koch | September 27, 2020

dt proclaims that he loves the uneducated, and Americans, unable to recognize an insult revel in his and their own ignorance

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The Disappearance

By Randy Koch | August 6, 2020

“Or maybe I’m the one who’s disappeared.”

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The death of a pig

By Randy Koch | July 14, 2020

Even when money is tight, markets are unreliable, and government is incompetent, ranchers and farmers can feed themselves

The Re-Con

Drawing out the long rope of history that swings from the black limbs

By Randy Koch | June 5, 2020

“The powers that be are not just…”

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The Coronavirus: fear, faith, and reminders from home

By Randy Koch | May 19, 2020

God helps those who know themselves for what we are

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The Quick and the Dead: before breathing became dangerous

By Randy Koch | April 6, 2020

COVID-19: the new arbiter for life or death

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And It Was So: through history walls rose from distortions of truth and justice

By Randy Koch | December 30, 2019

Stop this one: rise

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Orion Rising

By Randy Koch | August 28, 2019

In the southeastern sky, the Hunter forever pursuing Lepus, the Hare

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Corrections, detention — euphemisms to reassure the un-incarcerated that what the authorities do behind the walls and concertina wire is moral, ethical, humane, and necessary

By Randy Koch | July 20, 2019

Attica massacre of September 1971: 11 employees, 32 inmates

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Accounting for Pagans

By Randy Koch | June 27, 2019

Taking the stairways of words and numbers to find those that count and retain meaning through time