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Kim Addonizio replied back!

In my head, I am already married and having kids sex with her. We have a cottage in the Andes. You should visit.

Bring wine, all you buggers.

./w
            

This day, 2003 July, Ravish Dewangan, a close friend and a dependable comrade on many a treks died in Amherst, Massachusetts. Gone swimming in a pond, he went into the danger zone and drowned. He made his peace with the world. His body was recovered a few hours later ( Read more... )

I haven't spoken to anyone with photographs in over 2 years now. Too often, this place has all been about words, and nothing more. Well, like they say, every bad thing comes to an end and here I am without any more words, willing to sit on the sidelines while the photographs do the talking.

I have settled down to the office-way of life. Work ( Read more... )

I have lost a telephone
with your smell in it

I am living beside the radio
all the stations at once
but I pick out a Polish lullaby.
I pick it out of the static
it fades I wait I keep the beat
it comes back almost asleep

Did you take the telephone
knowing I'd sniff it immoderately?
maybe heat up the plastic
to get all the crumbs of your breath

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You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
(for I know silence)
you would say
This is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me

- Leonard Cohen

./w

While your moist garden groans under
the weight of last nights snow
my earth is warm with bodies burnt,
buried this year past.

./w

ps: It has been a difficult new year party this time. Please donate whatever you can for the benefit of those who have lost not just their families, but entire histories gathered over hundreds of years. Leave a comment  3