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Mike White

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Poems & fiction. Language & literature instructor. Dad/Husband. One poem daily in 2026. AI-poiesis/semiosis

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What Remains Is Work (Preludes on the North Shore) Winter poems. Records of attention, maintenance, refusal, posture. Good work repeats. Sometimes if nothing looks different, it’s because of fidelity, not failure.

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Winter poems.

Records of attention, maintenance, refusal, posture.

Good work repeats. Sometimes if nothing looks different,
it’s because of fidelity, not failure.

In Canada, harm comes in a cardigan. “Just checking in” is a knife in velvet. Tone is the permit. Process is the weapon. How many local orgs run on whispered harm and weaponized niceness? And we act shocked when nothing gets built...

Canada has a serious interpersonal pathology problem and almost nobody names it because the packaging is so “nice.” Here, you can deliver the most divisive, gaslighty, reputation-destroying nonsense in a calm, caring, motherly tone. Temperature 3/10. Soft voice. Gentle wording.…



“I always thought they were fabulous monsters!” said the Unicorn. “Is it alive?” … Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: “Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!” “Well, now that we have seen…


We’re still deep in winter. Spring is on the way. But I don’t think the next election breaks the way many conservatives want. Poilievre’s Davos response was unusually substantive. Now the test: can the wider CPC ecosystem stay at that altitude… or will it snap back to talking…

We’re deep in winter, but I can already start to smell a spring election in the air



Confucius himself said: "I transmit, but I do not originate."


“The Melian Dialogue isn’t endorsing a timeless law… it’s showing Athens at peak imperial hubris.”

The Strong Will Suffer What They Must hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong-w…



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Qui sitit, bibet — “He who thirsts will drink.”

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