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Welcome to The Asthenosphere.
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Self-Improvement - Tony Hoagland
Just before she flew off like a swan ( Read more... ) -
Letter of Recommendation - Yehuda Amichai
On summer nights I sleep naked ( Read more... ) -
How the Philippine government plans to keep Filipinos illiterate
(Or: Twilight carries the chronic, incurable Idiocy virus)
From "The Great Book Blockade of 2009" by Robin Hemley:
Over coffee one afternoon, a book-industry professional (whom I can't identify) told me that for the past two months virtually no imported books had entered the country, in part because of the success of one book, Twilight by Stephenie ( Read more... ) -
Ode to Joy
Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meeeeeeeeeep meep-meep...
(Or: Beaker performs "Ode to Joy" by Ludwig van Beethoven.) -
Earthly Love - Louise Glück
Conventions of the time ( Read more... ) -
The Munich Mannequins - Sylvia Plath
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children ( Read more... ) -
Wanting to Die - Anne Sexton
Since you ask, most days I cannot remember ( Read more... ) -
"He said, I'll turn you round like a treadmill" - Rumi
He said, I'll turn you round like a treadmill,
I'll make your head spin,
I'll turn your life into ruins.
I said, Well then, I'll find someone else.
He said, Who?--
If you find someone else,
I'll make it even worse for you.
(Translated by Jonathan Star)
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