Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Wait
by Brijida Prano
At the funeral
You see me in black.
I let you think I am mourning the dead.
But the dead are dead-
I lament the love
That never once had the chance to blossom.
Don’t think I shun you.
I love you, I just
Avoid the pain of trusting you fully.
Don’t cry for me yet
At this long, long wake,
Expecting of me [...]
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Next
by Andrew Koop
Bang goes your block
without notice
Slow fire fizzled ‘long
a lethal morale leak
Living for next
and never catch up
Fast food wrapper rat life
viral embers glow
Whole lot saved
waiting on the steps
Snotting cold alone
child nevermind
Mary go malcontent
just wait -
one more stop
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Degrees
by Brijida Prano
Ice, perpetual Winter.
In the Treasure Chest, the object lay
Suffocating, unacknowledged, dying, frozen.
The horizon held no hope.
Inside Earth’s blazing core,
In the cool blue skies that embraced it,
The Temperature Regulator saw visions-
Time was quickly running out.
Moved by deep compassion,
Regulator breathed warm, hopeful winds,
Thawing the frost, slowly reviving the object.
Regulator watched, smiling.
It moved, breathed, slowly blossomed,
But [...]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Salty Saviour
BALOCHISTAN — In his last days, leader to the Zikri sect of Islam, Abdul Ghani, moved unilaterally to purchase Church’s Chicken. Experts concluded that the inevitable backlash from the Sunni and Shi’a lead to his untimely death by gunshot in Karachi.
Confused and mourning, praying for guidance on the eve of their pilgrimage to the Mount [...]
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Serial Time Killer
Tuesday. Yeah, definitely Tuesday. That’s got to be the worst day of the week. Sure Monday sucks, but the weekend is right behind you. You’re still refreshed from your two days off. Tuesday is definitely worse. The weekend is a distant memory and you still have the majority of [...]
