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Good things I saw out of the bus window recently:
a little girl sitting on her front lawn watching the cars go by, a giant english mastiff reclining by her side like a lion ( Read more... ) -
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MOS DEF -
love poem
You remind me
define me
incline me.
If you died I'd.
- Lemn Sissay -
Wept.
We shall not lie on our backs at the Red Castle and watch the vultures wheeling over the valley where they had killed the grandson of Genghiz. We will not read Babur's Memoirs in his garden at Istalif and see the blind man smelling his way around the rose bushes. Or sit in the peace of Islam with the beggars of Gazar Gagh. We will not stand on the ( Read more... ) -
Howlin
SODAAAAAAAAAAAA
Also: Didn't realise how indifferent I'd been feeling about animated music vids lately until I saw this one done by Anthony F. Scheppherd (for The Blockheads).
For some reason it reminds me of old Sesame Street stuff (Very Good Thing, obviously). -
Langston Hughes I
Africa, Langston Hughes
Sleepy giant,
You've been resting awhile.
Now I see the thunder
And the lightning
In your smile.
Now I see
The storm clouds
In your waking eyes:
The thunder,
The wonder,
And the young
Surprise.
Your every step reveals
The new stride
In your thighs. -
Don't tell me what to do.
James Pope had mentioned that he had to write a commencement address for delivery at Emory University. Alone one evening in Sap Harbor, Steinbeck amused himself by dashing off a letter to Pope and a commencement address for him to deliver.
" ... if you work very hard and are lucky and have a good tax-man, then when you are fifty, if your heart ( Read more... )
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