Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Bingo
“John McCain is a piece of shit.”
Bill nodded his head slowly, looking down with solemn concentration. Blue and red chips were spread across his Disabled Veteran’s Lodge Super Bingo Board. He laid down a red piece and turned his eyes to Darryl.
“I used to sit around after school and watch tv — man… those commercials [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
What?
How can people be so different?
Look at nature: there are no contentious factions in an ant colony or segregated groups of salmon. Ever met a racist leopard?
Diversity is cause for celebration, not fuel for divisive conflict.
How can people contend with an uncertain future when they are so firmly rooted in the past?
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Something Missing
I run
Striving to reach an unseen finish line.
Drenched with effort, drained, aching,
I race ahead, the beat of my heart reassuring me I am almost there-
I will be happy soon.
Running, I am full of cold, consuming hatred,
Bleeding sweat and bitter tears of impotent rage,
Knowing I am disappearing, paying the highest price
For a crown of vapor.
I can [...]
1 Comment » - Tags: Brijida, poetry by Brijida Prano
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Cage
What good does my hatred do
Except render me powerless with unspent range,
Unable to shed the blood I would risk all to see run?
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. Oh yeah?
So DO something, damn it-
Or let my own hand deal the destructive blow,
Let me feel in my blood the unchained rush of satisfying
Fury finally allowed to [...]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Lions, Tigers, and Tentacles
All right. I took a nap again, because I was tired, okay? I fell asleep, and it happened to be in a bed… so it was a nap. I didn’t even plan on it this time.
And then I dreamed.
I was walking through the hallway at Giuseppe High (a Red-Ribbon School of Awesomeness), or somewhere– maybe [...]
1 Comment » - Tags: abby, dreams, excellence by Abby Koop
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Indiana Rush and the Tower of Limbaugh
Out on the late fringes of Spring, Hoosiers keep a low profile. No basketball, no soccer — only a warming groundhog’s snowball could effect the slow pulse of May in Bloomington, Indiana. On Reclamation Sunday, our tiny, liberal, mid-western oasis breathes a sigh of relief. Student exodus turns down the volume; bike lanes reappear; adolescent [...]
