Category: Entertainment
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Invisible Woman Eats Attention Span of City Dwellers
I was born an invisible woman in a life so long ago that I’ve forgotten everything but four things: that underwear matters, that it is impossible to crack egg shells in even lines, that you should never brush your teeth at 5am, and that soggy tortillas soaked in chicken broth taste epic. I live in…
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Economics of the Heart
You had to die for me to knowthe layers wormed within your bones—childrenare born narcissists, open mouthsand puckered fists. We commandwith animal mewls, gifted drippingnipples appear like offerings, a sacrificethat wrings you clean empty. For yearsI sliced away (a martyrmust have scars). I want,I want, I want and still … you with nothing left, I…
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Beauty In Pain
We make plans and then due to our own ignorance, we expect them to work. Life doesn’t care about your plans. It doesn’t care if you have big dreams. It’s still gonna hit you right in the face. And when that happens, most people suffer amnesia, that is, they forget the beauty of their own…
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A Preliminary for the Identification and Classification of
Tyrian purple [ancient Greek πορφύρα, Latin porphúra] from a species of predatory sea snails in the family Muricidae, originally known as Murex. In ancient times, extracting this dye involved tens of thousands of snails and substantial labor. The main chemical is 6,6’ –dibromoindigo. One of Paul’s first converts in Asia— a certain woman named Lydia,…
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When vanity is otherwise the poor girl’s only virtue.
“They own every breath that we take. They pick each piece off our plate. They eat all flesh that we make. They run the whole of our fate. And they say it’s all for our sake.” -What we’re not supposed to sing outside. We’d all heard, for quite some time of course, about our master’s…
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THE EVOLUTION OF ECOLOGICAL ATTITUDES AS REPRESENTED IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS A comparative analysis of works in American literature reveals the evolving ecological attitudes of society as illustrated through the perceptions and values of characters in regards to the natural environment. Applying an ecocritical approach, elements from each work are examined in three categories to chart the evolution of ecological attitude; environmental…
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Baby’s Breath
For the wedding you worebaby’s breath in your hairto quietly remindthat also in your dresswas a fetus tangled deep insidein tubes and hidden roomsatop an anatomical slippery slide. Tiny then, as the blossoms in your crown,but already sharing air with youand eating smuggled food inside. As the baby grewthere were timesyou breathed for me, too,when…
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Original of Love
The Original of Love series marks my journey through Brooklyn over a five year period. The paintings started out as pencil drawings on handmade paper and later became ink drawings, a process which took place in Crown Heights and Bay Ridge. Acrylic paint was introduced to the surface of the works in 2016 while I…
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Catalogue
It was a long time ago on a farm. The cows horse pigs chickens. The pond cellar farmhouse barn sheds hay-wagon fenced-fields a definition of function. On the table a fork butter-knife coal-bucket by the stove pump- handle. The dirt road is the oldest part of memory. Wild animals roamed at night. Hyena aardvark wart-hog…
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the girls, the girls
this place smells like hand-rolled-cigarette smoke burning, burning up and down the walls: my walls the small-girl walls he leans against giving credit to his big-man feet. When we are born they give us maps & the maps show us how to escape from burning things. They lead us to the muster point while the…
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Am I the Ice Cream Man?
Am I the ice cream man? Why else would the streets Fill & living rooms echo? Rose gardens smell of vanilla On Las Palmas as vowels Of celebration turn letters Into words; neighborhood Streets are blindly happy, Like a dream or maternity Ward. “Forza Juve!” from A random window: whoop It up. No need to…
