In Appreciation of THE SINGING JOURNALIST

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Look outside the window


There's a woman being grabbed


They've dragged her to the bushes


And now she's being stabbed
 

Maybe we should call the cops


And try to stop the pain


But Monopoly is so much fun


I'd hate to blow the game
 

And I'm sure
It wouldn't interest anybody


Outside of a small circle of friends

Phil Ochs

Forty years ago on April 9, 1976,
Phil Ochs silenced one of America’s sharpest,
wittiest, angriest, most melodious voices
by killing himself.
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Footnotes
For more on Phil Ochs, click  here. 

For historical reasons, it behooves me
to provide a link to  Love Me, I'm a Liberal.

We apologize to the source of the Phil Ochs essay.

Their journalism is extraordinarily perceptive
but their name is too  post-9/11 for our tastes.

The source  is the skeletal remains of  NEWSWEEK Magazine. 

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