Scott Bates finds less than altruistic motives behind charitable acts but note that they end up in the right place anyway.
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Homage to My Father, a Reader
Friday Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of my father’s death. To remember him, I share one of his poems about reading. My father read to my brothers and me virtually every night when we were growing up, passing along a passion that became our own. In “The Retiring Candle,” he imagines an introverted candle retreating […]
What Our Libraries Reveal about Us
Merging my library with my father’s have given me a new appreciation for him.
In Support of Today’s Anti-NRA Marchers
In support of today’s march against the NRA and in support of sensible gun control, I post a powerful anti-NRA poem by Scott Bates.
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NRA Uber Alles
Scott Bates “unloads” on the NRA in a poem which never goes out of date.
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A Herculean Task: Purging Old Files
I’ve spent the last couple of days going through my father’s files (and throwing most of them away). I feel like Heracles cleaning out the Augean stables, as described by Seamus Heaney.
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Curling Up with a Good Book
This Scott Bates is a testimony to the solitary joy of reading.
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The Epiphany from a Camel’s Point of View
In a very engaging poem, Scott Bates tells the story of the Epiphany from the point of view of the came of one of the Wise Men.
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