Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Idiosyncrasies of how I pick poems to share with people on their birthdays

"A succession of quick, unrelated scenes": F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" (1920)

The complementarity of accountability and affordability

Demanding accountability as "doing something for the American people"

"Rockabill Booby in the Wave Trough": Blue waves from "Finnegans Wake" (1939)

The "real shithole" in Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" (2016) and Donald Trump's 2018 statement about "shithole countries"