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Jul 10, 2008 02:13



Oh, home.
Home!
Да, я приехала домой;
Sí, estoy en Singapur;
对,家就是家, 就是家, 就是家.

Re: Egypt, Spain, and China - what can I say? (INSERT A+++ ADJECTIVES); photos will be posted once I get my act together. I want to say so much about my recent travels, but I feel very much at lost with language these few days, as if I’m missing words that I can’t quite pinpoint. It goes beyond my non-fluent Spanish and Russian and permeates into my direct understanding and translation of the world which I’ve deductively reduced to a weird amalgamate of English-Chinese-Hainanese-Singlish. It is a combination unsavoury and rather crude in nature; I am not so much embarrassed of this linguistic mishmash, but rather, frustrated at not feeling able to fully express myself fully, in typical full obnoxious force.

It occurred to me that I’ve not read poetry (like, really read poetry, breathed poetry, the way one nourishes a young garden or nurses a loved one back to health) in a matter of years. Years! Imagine that. Once upon a time I lived on free verse and stanzas; now it’s all simply dust in my blood. Carver, Cummings, et al lie morose and lifeless on my bookshelf, waiting to give sight to a new human being. It’s possibly time for me to reach a tentative hand up to the volumes and pull down some passionate, heady old friends for some linguistic therapy.

Soooo much to do between now and the start of school once again... It’s unfortunate that this summer won’t last forever. But then again, I love winter so much more.
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