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On something more recent,
I find that I still have to paraphrase the wise priest:
"I really don't know what it is about Filipino culture.
Why is it that we can't confront the person we have a problem with?
Why do we always have to bring in the cavalry?
Friends, parents, teachers, the Department . . . lawyers . . . the Catholic Church . . .
Can't you just talk to the ( Read more... ) -
Dream #3
19 April 1905
It is a cold morning in November and the first snow has fallen. A man in a long leather coat stands on his fourth-floor balcony on Kramgasse overlooking the Zähringer Fountain and the white street below. To the east, he can see the fragile steeple of St. Vincent's Cathedral, to the west, the curved roof of the Zytgloggeturm. But the ( Read more... ) -
She Would Rather be Irrelevant
I don't suppose I'll get excused from my final academic requirements just because I may have brain tumors. I felt two painful lumps on my head this evening, while shampooing my hair. One on the area behind my right ear, just below the hairline. The other on the back of my neck, again just below the hairline. (Do tumors hate hair?)
Now my whole thing ( Read more... ) -
Periodic Poetry Post No. -insert digits here-
"Keeping Things Whole"
Mark Strand
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole. -
Periodic Poetry Post [insertnumberhere]
Because I'm too busy writing my thesis to write blog entries:
The Telling
Mookie KatigbakWhen I tell you that you have an effect ( Read more... ) -
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(1) My History group is a set of vaginas with only one working brain -- mine. The rest of them have enough brain cells between them to make a hummingbird's intellect seem superior. I knew it from Day 1; how they responded with silence when I asked them to tell apart an autonomous from an independent government. And lately, one of them wrote a " ( Read more... ) -
I'm on steroids
But what I really, really need is a mediator between myself and the rest of humanity -- someone to talk to people for me; someone to save me from participating in the trivial human interaction required for day-to-day survival. I need a right-hand man -- the ultimate minion.
See, even a simple visit to the pharmacist's leads me to debase some poor ( Read more... )
