But then Tommy James & the Shondells did it first. Still I find a certain charm in Lene's interpretation.

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80s avant-garde German Divas. Individually they're an aquired taste, but together, they created this more mainstream anti-vivisectionist anthem.

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Says a 102  year old Okinawan when asked what it feels like to hold her great-great-great granddaughter this TEDTalk - Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+

isn’t rare.  Polish

any nugget and it gleams.

The light reflects, throws jewels

at your eyes, blinds you to the tossing

arm.

Covet things that eat shine:  the scratched

finish, the tree bark-textures that speed bump the

touch, slow caresses down, make careening eyes

stop.

Who can only glance at Mother Theresa

and not ( Read more... )

ODE TO EURYTHMICSO Annie and Dave, in the Willow Condominiums ( Read more... )

There's a cacophony in the poetry publishing world. A din of verse, both feeble and mighty, vying for smaller and smaller parcels of literary journal real estate. I've pouted about it for some years, cursed the unfairness, resented the rejections, and remained under-published. I've feared the mystical editors with their various rules of engagement ( Read more... )

Expiration Date
by Mark Russell Brown

The one that I remember best says
he likes the pose I cop while
he rallies himself in the bathroom

and rebounds to find me naked, stretched
along the bed, hands behind my head,
pantomiming beautiful.

And in the dim blue stutter of his rented porn,
we are fooled. He doffs only his shirt
before he ( Read more... )