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Eden
Somewhere in Eden, after all this time,does there still stand, abandoned, likea ruined city, gates sealed with grisly nails,the luckless garden?Is sultry day still followed thereby sultry dusk, sultry night,where on the … -
Armful of Dry Twigs
Armful of dry twigsI bring to the fireOn the busy street.I can't see the stake,don't know who isbeing burnt alive or why.There's just the blaze and the glowbehind the rapturous crowd.-- Novica Tadic, from Poetry 4/07 -
Foreknowledge
I think he planned it, sort of, from the start;whether he knew they'd choose the fruit or nothe scattered hints around the garden, what to doin case they got themselves kicked out. A shirtof fur around the lamb. The st… -
reckon I asked for it
I've been tagged back:Three ThingsThree Things That Scare Me:1. Academe-speak.2. Bills.3. Shopping Malls.Three People Who Make Me Laugh:1. Matt Stone.2. Trey Parker.3. Myself.Three Things I Love:1. Good coffee.2. Peanut … -
Jerusalem, 1981
In the Muslim quarter, I bought a slice of halvah handing the merchant a ten-pound note for one pound's worth of halvah. The merchant refused to give me change until I could tell him when the conflict had begun. 1967, … -
Quotatives in English
In standard informal English, we frequently use an indirect quotative to report other people's speech:She said that she was sleepy.She said she was sleepy.In standard formal English, we may use a direct quotative:She sai… -
My Summer Reading
American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to CoastAmerican English: Dialects and VariationThe Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to EthnographyThe Social Stratification of English in New York Citycall … -
bah, I'm it
Three ThingsThree Things That Scare Me:1. Traffic2. Heroin3. post-graduation plansThree People Who Make Me Laugh:1. Myself2. Ellen3. SonjaThree Things I Love:1. Language2. Potatoes3. Sitting on the front porch at one in … -
quick poll
without doing any googling or what-have-you, please respond.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (aka Alexander Solzhenitsyn)a) I know exactly who this person is.b) Name rings a bell; I've a vague idea who he might be.c) Name rings a … -
For Worse or For Worser
April 22, 2007 Stiff upper lip, everybody... So, I guess we have to offer up today's For Better Or For Worse for your contemplation (click for full size): This cartoon evoked a wide range of reactions … -
VA Tech
"The gunman . . . was looking for his girlfriend."Lord have mercy on us all. -
Advent
El Nino slips across latitudes, rises dripping from the oceanFrom seafloor mud, El Nino brings up the secrets of childhoodEl Nino crawls in the manger, time runs outEl Nino rocks himself dry on the edge of a continentPra… -
flowers flowers flowers
The midnight scent of night-blossoming jasmine, friends, is worth the late hours. -
Bad Priorities
Annoyance #1The front page of the Gainesville Sun has a big splash about the guy who said "nappy-headed hoes." And there's only a little corner-item with a photo of Vonnegut. Priorities?Annoyance #2The caption to said … -
selected quotations
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.1922 - 2007quotations below stolen from a listserv The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings, not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems. ==1952… -
God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."For Christmas of 1997 my father gave me Cats Cradle and Hocus Pocus. In Kenya a decade ago it was not easy to come by books-- you never went into the few existi… -
media
I am perhaps the only person in my country to have watched Ethiopian Idol but never American Idol. -
Clearly, I have my priorities all wrong
Zombie Christians Mah zambah amarh mah nabrazzaz."the church's practice of killing and devouring humans is deemed heretical by other Christians" -
Kweli
Kristo amefufuka. -
diarists
Samuel Pepys has a weblog. -
The Second Death of Lazarus
Folklore relates he was afterward rarely known to smile.Since then, I can only see the world as through blue, transparent water.I recall more after the event, when I felt like a thatched guest in my ownthatched home. Ev… -
GOD IS DEAD
and we have killed him.Μνήσθητί μουΚύριε ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳσου -
Magdalene
IIPeople clean their homes before the feast.Stepping from the bustle of the streetI go down before Thee on my kneesAnd anoint with myrrh Thy holy feet.Groping round, I cannot find the shoesFor the tears that well up with… -
Magdalene
I.As soon as night descends, we meet.Remorse my memories releases,The demons of my past compete,And draw and tear my heart to pieces,Sin, vice and madness and deceit,When I was slave of men's capricesAnd when my dwelling… -
great... to be...
So... how about them Florida Gators? I'm not sure that dancing in the streets will ever really get old, no matter how many times we do it.Amusing sights last night included signs reading:OSU rhymes with gay!My grandmo… -
The Second Death of Lazarus
Folklore relates he was afterward rarely known to smile. Since then, I can only see the world as through blue, transparent water. I recall more after the event, when I felt like a thatched guest in my own thatched h… -
Bad Days
When Passion Week started and JesusCame down to the city, that dayHosannahs burst out at his entryAnd palm leaves were strewn in his way.But days grow more stern and more stormy.No love can man's hardness unbend;Their br… -
soft as butter
I've been on the waiting list for a while and finally got a plot at the neighborhood community garden. It's a lovely eccentric place and its soil is soft as butter. Self-declared Organic Garden, which is fine by me. I…
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