For Rini Price (3/9/1941 to 10/19/2019)
Five Poems from “DEATH SELF,” A Collaboration Between Rini Price and V.B. Price
The Tragedy of Trumpian America: The Wrong Man at Exactly the Wrong Time
Trump’s dirty water rule affects over a quarter million New Mexicans.
Climate Change Victims of the Future Focus on Failure of Leadership Today
Greta Thunberg and her peers take action to save the planet while leaders fail to act.
ASCLEPIUS
A poem by V.B. Price For those of us who, unlike the God of Medicine, do not see death as a failure but an open door. Perfectcomforter, cleandoctorcalling our dreamsto heal us,our unchainedtrustto end our pain,immortalitywas your onetransgression:Not your own vice, but the sinof arrogance in the serviceof compassion:Zeuscrushed youfor it. Death,the only escape— to […]
Death with Dignity in a Culture Like Ours That Values Misery Over Mercy
The ultimate decision about ending of one’s life should honor an individual’s free will.
Nuclear Waste Storage: A Con Job on Impoverished New Mexico
Will New Mexicans rise up against two bogus nuclear re-definitions?
The Last Gasps of the Old World Order in Brazil as NM Shows How the New World Starts
As the precious Amazon burns due to extremist authoritarianism, New Mexico shows signs of a saner new order.