Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November, “People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.” The gunpowder Treason and Plot; Let me ask you, do you believe in that sentence? Do you support the idea that governments should be afraid of their people, not people afraid of their governments? Well then, congrats, you are a revolutionary; for the revolution starts with the ideas of who we should be, and not the acceptance of who we are.  I see no...

Firstly, I'd like to start off this letter to you by saying that this is me, Clint C. Haugen, not ‘The Writer’ or ‘The Fighter’. This isn't Owen, or Paul, or Aslan (You'll see some day). This is just me. No gimmicks. No poetry. No imagery. No philosophy. And no psychology. ‘The Voice' some of y'all claim to hear is absent from this. This is me to you, human to human. No art. No self-deprivation. No poop jokes. I’m not pretending to be Hemingway here; or Holdon; or Bukowski; or Fitzy; or even...

Deja vu A mirage of a memory A not so distant history A strange moment Life is funny, isn’t it? There’s an irony to it I remember her from my past life A dream in a dream in a dream It seems That these day dreams Influence what I believe And what I believe Changes what I see A memory of a memory of a memory  Of the man I used to be The day Or time Or season Or place Fades  It shifts It morphs And blends together in the mind Is today new? Or is today deja vu? Is it the same time and place But...