* if you ask for directions, some people might take your hand and accompany you to the destination point, and kiss you on both cheeks. you might end up with their phone numbers in your cell ( Read more... )

I'm walking the narrow street from Termini railway station to San Lorenzo district, heavily populated by students and young people.  It's late night and the street is hardly lit. The neighbourhood is not the nicest place in Rome. All around the railway building quite a few homeless people have already made their beds and gone to sleep.

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I didn't say anything for many minutes, and we continued the slow walk toward the faculty club, Stockdale limping and arc-swinging his stiff leg that had never fully recovered from repeated torture. Finally, after about a hundred meters of silence, I asked, "Who didn't make it out?"
"Oh, that's easy," he said. "The optimists."
"The optimists? I ( Read more... )

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take the leaf of a tree
trace its exact shape

the outside edges
and inner lines
memorize the way it is fastened to the twig

(and how the twig arches from the branch)

how it springs forth in April
how it is panoplied in July

by late August
crumple it in your hand
so that you smell its end-of-summer sadness

chew its woody stem
listen to its autumn rattle

watch it ( Read more... )

The Lives of Others is a must see.

Curiosity
may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.

Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, ( Read more... )

"Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime."


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