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Fourth Annual Silent Poetry Reading for the Feast of St. Brigid

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

The Firebombers
by Anne Sexton

We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

The bomb opens like a shoebox.
And the child?
The child is certainly not yawning.
And the woman?
The woman is bathing her heart.
It has been torn out of her
and because it is burnt
and as a last act
she is [...]

Your attention, please!

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I am going to do my best to join Celia.  Y’all should too.

Haiku for aluminum can

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Aluminum can
You hold frosty beverage
Love from me always

I think I’m turning Japanese

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Today the first of two shipments from Japan came in.  So exciting.  I love getting the boxes from Japan.  I had a shipment come in from Ichiban Khan yesterday and while I was ordering Japanese things, the shipment was coming from San Fransisco and so doesn’t count.
About two weeks ago I got the itch to [...]

Does this box make my ass look big?

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Just got this at work. It’s addressed to me and weighs 3 lbs. Moms says it’s one of many to arrive from my sister for my birthday. I am not allowed to open it until tomorrow even though it says “OPEN IMMEDIATELY — CONTENTS MAY BE PERISHABLE” on the box. The [...]

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