upon reading a critical reviewcharles bukowski ( Read more... )

FROM AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD ( Read more... )

I Am in Need of MusicElizabeth Bishop ( Read more... )

HALF-HANGED MARY
Margaret Atwood

7 p.m.Rumour was loose in the air ( Read more... )

The Second Comingby W.B. Yeats ( Read more... )

Song of the Redwood Tree
by Walt Whitman

( A California song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; )

寝られない
この遅く夜
多くに成る
もう早かったのは
朝に無く成った。

The Japanese waka is the early precursor to the popular and well-known haiku: like the haiku it uses the 5-7-5 syllabic pattern for the first three lines, however unlike the haiku it has subsequent lines depending on the poem's subcategory: the chouka, which ended up being very long poems, used a 5-7-5-7-5 etc. ( Read more... )

"If I ever turn evil, the first act I will do is cut off your thumbs."
- My friend's roommate when my friend took a break from playing WoW by playing her PS2.

I have Psalm 23 in German. Music rulesThank God they didn't get their act together and toss salt all over the place to make the most unnatural-looking sidewalks again; as it stands outside ( Read more... )

crack of the day: In California, it is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.

more crack: The T'ang Dynasty Empress Wu Hu passed a special law concerning oral sex. She felt that a woman pleasuring a man represented the supremacy of the male over the female. Therefore, she insisted all ( Read more... )

shimmering dust motes
reaching for yellowed pages
the spring students sneeze

"We want this people to be peace-loving but at the same time courageous. And you must, for that reason, be both peace-loving... You must be both peace-loving and strong ( Read more... )