April 2012
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Morning Song This morning begins almost purely, coffee enveloped in cream, those clouds that bloom up like madness in a cup, and I take the first swallow before the color changes, taste the bitterness and the faint sweet behind it, steam rubbing my nose, an animal nuzzle, and the sharp, nearly painful heat at the back of my tongue, the liquid unraveling down the raw tunnel of my throat. And I feel...
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Best compliment ever
So my best friend Zebra (you can find her here) and I had dinner this Wednesday. I bought her a copy of The Fault in Our Stars and she’s in the middle of reading it. While eating our respective salads and soups - and she was stealing about half my plate of pesto spaghetti - she said to me, “You sound a lot like that main character in The Fault in Our Stars. What was her name...
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one of my favorite poems ever
Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don’t see, to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and...
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A reply to John Green's "Why Libraries Are...
Dear Mr. Green, I have recently read your passionate argument against piracy, and while I agree with your main claims that piracy does not benefit the creators directly (i.e., the relationship between the consumer and the creator), I would also like to address the reasons behind why I think piracy is a more attractive option than purchasing legally.
[[MORE]] First, let me provide you with a...