Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Corporations that got harder to hate

Walmart is a middle-America-morality mongering, child-labor leeching monstrosity that strives to care about the environment.

Disney is an inauthentic pap-producing, culture annihilating enterprise that happily welcomes LGBTs.


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Monday, June 11, 2007

BBW

I’m 5.6” and weighed in at the doctor’s last week at 128 lbs. It’s a lot. Five months ago--unpregnant--I weighed 108 lbs.

Still and all--and no matter how adoringly he does it--I don’t think Big A has any business calling me a big, beautiful woman.

Yeah, I told him off :).

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

REMINDER

Take a chance,
Balance across the spines
Of mountains, memories.

Tune into happiness,
The mess of things turned true
At the moment of utterance.


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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

How I know it’s *definitely* time for a snack-break

When halfway through a book about pre-Elizabethan England i read
the queen “delivered the prizes…”
as
“the queen delivered the pizza.”

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Jouer: Games of Chance and Skill

Weaving her
More or less Futbol-shaped
Bump through New York streets

She assumes that
The moment which
Fathered it

Arose
Not in their nest of banked
Bedclothes and soft words

But a good ten
Or fifteen minutes
After

When summoned
To play soccer,
And sweating

In the icy breath
Of January dusk,
Her palm laid

Against the insistent bark
Of a wintering tree,
She feels rather than sees

the ball stream by
(Stealthy and silent
As an idea)

Past
Her surprised
and ineffective feet

And hears his exultant
Half laugh-half shout
Goal!

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Monday, April 30, 2007

Beloved

Me (looking up from my reading, face shiny with iambic pentameter):
Big A, I loooooooooove Shakespeare!

Big A (who thought that sentence was going to end rather differently, making a valiant comeback):
And Shakespeare loves you, puppy!

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

I’m sorry I haven’t said anything

Each time
I started to

To say something
There is yelling

Voices bewailing their dead

Guns go off
Or cannons roar

Not cannons. Rather things
So up-to-date and fierce

I don’t even know what they’re rightly called

Sometimes I can hear
People begging for their lives

From those there to harm them
And from those that cannot hear them

I open my mouth to say something

And then I shut it again


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