This week, Carlos (https://www.blurb.com/user/packers79) and I (https://poetsandmuses.com/Imogen-arate/) discuss our respective poems, "Suffer Garden Bliss" and "Skipping the Path," and mass consumption.

You can also follow Carlos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009818411738

Find Carlos's books at:1. Whimsical Nihilism www.blurb.com/b/8779148-whimsical-nihilism2. Harshing the Mellow www.blurb.com/b/7642938-harshing…ow-by-carlos-colon3. A Forceable Peace www.blurb.com/b/5198644-a-forceable-peace

Poets and other Artists who inspired Carlos: #AllenGinsberg, #EECummings, #AnneSexton, #JuanFelipeHerrera, #JimMorrison, #PhilipLamantia, #SylviaPlath, #SaulWilliams, #BobKaufman, #EugeneBRedmond

Photo of Carlos Colon by Deborah Colon

Links to topics we discussed:1. Reneging on citizenship promises for non-citizen military personnelwww.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019…-possibility/ and www.npr.org/2018/07/09/62677344…romised-citizenship2. Water test for witcheswww.history.com/news/7-bizarre-witch-trial-tests and blog.law.uconn.edu/blog/salem-witch-trials#3. Allen Ginsberg’s Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamberwww.goodreads.com/en/book/show/364…hat-deathchamber4. Teenager sleeping habitsmdpsychfoundation.org/article-explai…re-night-owls/

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