In these poems only the nearest and most verifiable fact seems real: brand names (Saab and Honda, Blue Cross, Haldol and Klonopin) place names, proper names and nicknames (Manchester, Seattle, Jane, Caroline), the names for silly phenomena (Dallas Cowgirl) and for tragic phenomena (blood oxygen-number, brain-stem breathing).
He likened the consequences to the "tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic," the 1968 race riots in America.
'That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic, but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect.
The tragic consequence of this phenomenon is that the leaders of many athletic departments often make decisions based on revenue rather than education.
Margaret Mary Vojtko, a Duquesne University professor who died in abject poverty in 2013 (she had taken to sleeping in her office because she couldn't pay her utilities) became a tragic symbol of this phenomenon.
It's left to Mignini, the prosecutor of the case, to hint at the tragic cost of this viral phenomenon of a story.
"This is a very tragic incident which is an unprecedented phenomenon, never seen in the past history of Pakistan," the spokesman, Khawaja Imran Raza, said.
Thinking globally, the MC turns his withering gaze on the tragic excesses of the contemporary Madchester phenomenon: "Extasy [sic] / Acid / PCP / Crack / Can leave you cold and breathless / Laying on yo' back".
Not coincidentally, it is near the home of Carlos Gardelthe legendary crooner who first made the tango song an international phenomenon, but died young in true, tragic tango style ina plane crash in 1935.
