December 2011
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Poetry Friday
The Poet’s Duty
If the poet’s supposed to be able to encapsulate
the feeling that starts in the pads of your toes
and rolls up to your mouth at the same speed
in which she curls her hair around one finger
while she waits for you to knot
your tie and then slip her arm through yours
so that this feeling floats out your pores and into her lungs,
only to be returned as if...
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“She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over...”
– JD Salinger (via noremaac)
What's Your Damage?: If I Were a Middle Class... →
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melknee:
By TOURÉ via TIME MAGAZINE
If I were a middle class white guy writing on Forbes.com about being a poor Black kid I’d be clueless. I’d be so clueless that I wouldn’t realize that I’m clueless, so I would not know that I should really, really step away from my expensive computer and not…
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honorrolltooutofcontrol:
thinkin’ bout...
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
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Stylus →
I don’t have a fresh piece for Poetry Friday because I’m lazy and unambitious, but I did recently discover that BC’s literary magazine, Stylus, has published their Spring 2011 issue online. Check out yours truly here on pages 35 and 116. The editorial board was kind enough to select “Leaving It Behind” and “Reasonable Doubt” for inclusion.
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Things I Hate That You Might Not Enjoy Either
Transition Lenses that Change with Light
You look stupid. Get Lasik or rock the Mike Neary - distance glasses over your eyes, shades on your head and reading glasses somewhere you can’t find (presumably also on the top of your head).
When you get to the bottom of a bag of chips and they’re too small to dip.
I need to talk to someone in the industry about developing chips that are...
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The Symbolism Survey →
Jack Kerouac, Ayn Rand, John Updike and others respond to a 16-year-old’s survey about symbolism.
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