This past October I read about a woman being raped at a Zimbabwean “youth national camp” and I had a suspicious feeling that something terribly wrong was going down. I just now the other day googled “Zimbabwe youth camp.” I feel awful that it has taken me so long to learn about something so profoundly wrong. Here are the first five hits that ( Read more... )

I am having quite a lovely lazy Seattle day. On the way home from breakfast with z, bank/postoffice/catfood/etc I had a magical encounter with a dear friend's roommate who I had only hung out with a couple of times. On the street corner in our neighborhood catfood in hand we chatted for nearly an hour. She recalled offhand how just recently she ( Read more... )

this is me after my first ten days in israel, which is also after two days in l.a., after two graduations, after a visit from my family, after a family trip to victoria, after the 50 foot wave concert, after seeing the pixies in portland, after some beautiful hikes, and maybe, just maybe, this about catches me up ( Read more... )

I have always found it mockingly ironic that as I write about the lack of class discourse in society and the classist structure that this institutional silence supports -- the embedded Microsoft dictionary has no spelling for the word ‘classist’.

Twenty-two, Lake ( Read more... )

Julia is fucking beautiful!

I am really strongly ambivalent about all this paper-writing.

Please make it go away.

what did she say?
/i didnt mean to be harsh or nothin/
as she spat out the abuse, my share
her oldest daughter quite jealous,
just like the rest of us
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Your Seduction Style: Ideal Lover


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/how am i going to make this right/

kitten, that was mommy's artwork

"but look at him,
sagging over the railing"

whose mommy's kitten has a big butt?

"ha, ha. he gets up and goes over
to his pile of jacket and shirt.

"those kittens are the favoritest."