February 2012
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“my brother … had a distracting habit, most of his adult life, of...”
– from Seymour, An Introduction
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“At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially...”
– John Keats
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Drunken man beheads mother
TARLAC, Tarlac — A 36-year old man, believed to be under the influence of liquor, beheaded his mother in Concepcion town. Police said the “spirit of bilog” (bottled gin) had pushed Pablo Javier to kill his mother Conchita, 70.
However, Javier’s neighbors said it could have been the asong ulol (mad dog), which the suspect had for pulutan (appetizer snack), that drove...
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“My muse is not a horse.”
– from a letter to MTV
by Nick Cave
Watchno jitterbugging
Where does this tenderness come from?
Where does this tenderness come from?
These are not the—first curls I
have stroked slowly—and lips I
have known are—darker than yours
as stars rise often and go out again
(where does this tenderness come from?)
so many eyes have risen and died out
in front of these eyes of mine.
and yet no such song have
I heard in the darkness of night before,
(where does this tenderness come from?):
here,...
My father is lazarus,
ventriloquist. I am
his mute.
Dummy.
— Dionisio Velasco
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“I’m tired of thinking.
I long to taste the world with a kiss.”
– from Dreaming of Hair
by Li-Young Lee
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Peepers
(after Blue Velvet)
Dark shadow
slats line my face. O
to get an eye full
of you, baby, your wan onion skin
and shiver
of suspended grace.
My stuttered breath and yours saw
back and forth in the raw yellow light.
When you don the dun-colored
fright wig the show will commence.
Don’t look, baby, don’t
look in the closet
else you expose me.
Our passion faults along the...
January 2012
9 posts
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Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire,
To be no one’s sleep under so many
Lids.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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December 2011
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October 2011
6 posts
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Imelda Marcos files bill honoring Muammar Gadhafi →
mosquitopress:
Former First Lady and current Ilocos Sur Representative Imelda Marcos has filed a bill at the House of Representatives, seeking to honor the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.
Gadhafi was killed today in a gun battle between his loyalists and Libyan revolutionaries.
“Colonel Gadhafi…
“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously… Writing, knowing in part...”
– Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The immigrant artist at work (via ahnka)
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September 2011
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August 2011
5 posts
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“if you don’t have much soul left and you know it, you still got soul.”
– by Charles Bukowski
from the short story “A Dollar and Twenty Cents” in the collection Tales of Ordinary Madness