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    The Ghost Of Empathy
    The Ghost Of Empathy
    The Ghost Of Empathy
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    The Ghost Of Empathy

    By Joseph B. Raimond

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    The tenth and final installment of Joseph B. Raimond's series of books featuring "Western Haiku".
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateApr 1, 2019
    ISBN9783749457779
    The Ghost Of Empathy
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    Joseph B. Raimond

    Born in 1962 in Omaha Nebraska in the United States, Joseph B. Raimond was the son of a US Air Force officer. After living in such diverse places as Laon France, three different places in Virginia, Denver Colorado, Dayton Ohio, Darmstadt Germany, and finally Los Angeles California, Joseph B. Raimond moved to San Francisco California where he studied art, with an emphasis on ceramics. After completing his Bachelors degree in 1985, he moved to the Fuerth Germany area, where he has lived ever since, refusing to ever move again! He completed his Masters degree in the spring of 2009 in Humanities, focusing on the interaction between various forms of art and expression. He built a house in the year 2000, complete with a painting atelier and recording studio, where he is able to work on his painting, writing and recording projects. Besides many exhibitions óf his paintings in Paris, San Francisco, Munich, Koeln, Berlin and his hometown area of Fuerth, Germany, he has under the collective name Doc Woer Mirran published almost two hundred recordings of his audio art and music. He has also written more than thirty books, most of which feature his punk-rock inspired form of writing. Pulling no punches, everyone and anyone can become a target of his politically inspired poetry, his favorite victims often including republican and other right-wing politicians, television evangelists, reality shows, lame pop icons and arrogant jazz guitarists.

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      The Ghost Of Empathy - Joseph B. Raimond

      MIRRAN THOUGHT

      These pieces were written from 2014 to 2016 in Berlin, Paris, London, Munich, Darmstadt, Prague, Koblenz, Köln, Luxembourg, Rimini, San Marino, Cecina, Florence, Heidelberg, Manchester, Barcelona, Dublin and Adine.

      As always, in loving memory of Frank Abendroth and Tom Murphy.

      Dedicated to Oliver Sacks

      For my beautiful Conny

      Cover art The Ghost Of Empathy by Joseph B. Raimond, watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper, 2018.

      This is DWM release Nr. 169

      Table of Contents

      Berlin

      Paris

      Munich

      London

      Darmstadt

      Prague

      Köln

      Luxembourg

      Koblenz

      Uelzen

      Rimini

      San Marino

      Cecina

      Florence

      Adine

      San Diego

      Heidelberg

      Gardone Riviera

      Manchester

      Dublin

      Barcelona

      Berlin

      Even the strength

      Of the perpetual big city gray

      Can’t dim the light you give

      The February buds

      Might still be destined

      For a frosty death

      The miles that race past

      Are stopped like from a magnet

      By my longing for you

      Big city dusk

      Gray turns to black

      Alcohol brings colour

      Reminiscing, trading old stories

      Like old war veterans

      Backstage importance

      Loud, louder, loudest

      A contest of pain

      The most ringing ears wins

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