Likely my best work to date. I won't mince words, rape inspired this poem and thusly it is described, however vaguely, in the first paragraph. I'm past it at this point and have no issue with direct dialogue concerning sexual assault, frankly the only thing that pisses me off at this point is peoples tendency to tiptoe through the tulips on the ( Read more... )

I came across these two short verses scrawled drunkenly within a moleskin I bought and filled during my years in the Arab world. I've no recollection of writing either one, AlhamduliAllah, although I do remember when my writing and my world-views were so simplistic. Considering how much of my time in Middle-East was spent drunk and maudlin(or high ( Read more... )