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My poem “The Reshaping of Clay” is included in the latest issue of The Big Windows Review.

My poem “The Reshaping of Clay” is included in the latest issue of The Big Windows Review.

My poem ���The Reshaping of Clay��� is included in the latest issue of The Big Windows Review.

My poem ���The Reshaping of Clay��� is included in the latest issue of The Big Windows Review.

Hope is an Act

The Bookstore at the Fredericksburg Campus of Germanna Community College now has copies of my new book for purchase by anyone. You do not have to be a student.

The Bookstore at the Fredericksburg Campus of Germanna Community College now has copies of my new book for purchase by anyone. You do not have to be a student.

Received inventory of my new book, Geographies of the Dead today.

Received inventory of my new book, Geographies of the Dead today.

Email me at davidanthonysam@gmail.com to arrange to purchase your personalized and signed copy for $23 (shipping anywhere in the U.S. included).

Our daughter Michelle Mitchell Fairley also designed my new bookmarks

Our daughter Michelle Mitchell Fairley also designed my new bookmarks

Our daughter Michelle Mitchell Fairley designed my new business cards.

Our daughter, Michelle Mitchell Fairley, designed my new business cards.

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My newest poetry collection, Geographies of the Dead, is now available in Kindle as well as paperback.

My newest poetry collection, Geographies of the Dead, is now available in Kindle as well as paperback. Go HERE.

Teach us

On waking up in the wrong country

Life is hard. We lose sometimes. We lose what we love. We lose friends, time, jobs, hope, faith.

Life is not fair. Winners don���t always deserve to win. Losers often do not deserve to lose.

We love those who don���t always love us.

We want the idea of fairness. But we also want to win even if we don���t deserve it.

We want love even if we don���t give it. And if we give it, we can���t control what is done with it. And we resent that.

So we seek the Leader who will fix everything. Great leaders inspire us to work together for it. But we often want the illusion of a Great Leader instead.

The one who promises us everything with no price to pay, no work to be done. The Easy Way. The scapegoat to stone. Without responsibilty for having thrown.

It���s hard to ge a grown up. Easier to have the illusion of adulthood while giving away our power to the one with all the easy answers.

And so we vote the easy way, against our best interests.

And, perhaps, we wake up. But it is easier to keep sleeping.