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Do you think it’s morally good to go to work, regardless of what it is? Do you malign people who don’t, for any reason? Do you believe the rich earned it, or that the cops are just misunderstood, no matter who they hurt? Do you prize cruelty’s inertia, defending every new malice with blithe superiority? […]

I’ve never had to praise you because of what you create. You hold this weird spot in my heart that I can’t shake. Sometimes I think you’d be so easy to love, but I fear you’d be afraid of it..I can’t help but feel no matter what, we always reconnect. Life can be scary and […]

About 8am on Wednesday March 5 I was riding south along the river near the fountain at Tom McCall Waterfront park while you were riding north on an electric scooter. I’m still hurt pretty badly, but you seemed ok right away. However, your scooter suffered at least a broken left handlebar. We went our separate […]

Let us rise, as the mighty current of love and hope, united against the forces of violence and anger, which seek to shatter our spirit and fragment our communities. We stand as a testament to the strength that comes from peace—a strength that is born of the refusal to yield to destructive impulses that are […]

The trouble with America is that, somewhere along the way, its people murdered whatever joy they could and should have had. Despite the bounty the land provided in great measure, they carped endlessly and craved the time of a Camelot that never was. Despite the benefits of a geography that protected them from foreign encroachment, […]

I’m not doing that bad. Just feeling kind of hollowed out. My kid’s dad lost his job due to the tariffs. Just one notch closer and it looks like one of them already hit us. All I do is work. Feels like I barely get a day off, just an extra couple lunch breaks. Gonna […]

How the fuck is any officer who beat and pepper sprayed journalists and legal observers not in prison much less still on the force. Five years on these violent criminals should just now be getting released into parole and halfway houses. Cops are bullies. All of them. They may, I stress may, be reasonable people […]

I walk past the Vern, and the alleyway door is conspicuously covered in human feces. Dysentery is on the rise, not because people don’t wash their ass so much as because they are prevented from doing so, for want of shelter, for want of the means of hygiene that the mechanisms of profit and privation […]

Let us raise our glasses high in a jubilant toast to the illustrious editors and the inspiring contributors of the I Anonymous section at the Portland Mercury! Hooray for these guardians of insight, whose subtle artistry and whispered wisdom reveal far more than meets the eye. With a knowing smile and an impeccable flair for […]