“Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them life.” – Chief Si’alh “I became a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I could not cross the river with The wolf I saw… Read More ›
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Numbers: The Death of Alberto Nisman
“I depart for the great Maybe.” – François Rabelais The day Alberto Nisman died Flowers broke his skull, His eyes like prisms bent the light And plenty burst from null. The single truth a life secures By simply being so Unravels… Read More ›
Numbers: The Capital of Hell
“The only objects of practical reason are those of good and evil.” — Immanuel Kant How do pimps beseech and praise their god? In the sky, the temple doors are charred And all the cafes are ghosted with the dead…. Read More ›
Numbers: On Sony’s Decision to Pull The Interview
“Death is nothing to us.” – Lucretius There was a time When movies played Our dreams and crimes In light and shade. Who made the movies Made the world, From winorlose To boymeetsgirl, Like Fox and Mayer, Lang, Renoir, De… Read More ›
Numbers: Schrödinger’s Cat
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.” – William Shakespeare For this is journalism: X was true, but Y wasn’t, Here a church, there a prison. Instead, Jackie’s in a box, A topological hex, That kills as often as… Read More ›
Numbers: The Mandelbrot Set
“Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.” – Latin saying “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr An eternity of waves tattoos the sand In foam, embroiders it with seaweed, scarifies and brands The verge… Read More ›
Numbers: The Comment Field
“I simply hold that it is difficult to make oneself understood, not absolutely impossible.” – Eugene Ionesco The Comment Field By Curt Hopkins We find salvation in this: Vulgarity as a right, A colonizing meme, which Finds our souls then… Read More ›
Numbers: A heavy stone
“What happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art that proceeded it. “ — T.S. Eliot “Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben ist barbarisch.” — Theodor Adorno … Read More ›
Numbers: Men’s Rights
“For this too is the lot of man.”— Siduri the Wine Maker, Gilgamesh If strippers are a kind of walking wounded, Where do all our crippled menfolk go To hide between the worm and green corn moon? The crystal lattices… Read More ›
Numbers: Some Thoughts on the Umbrella Revolution
The color of truth is gray.” – Andre Gide I remember Tiananmen. The end Was blood, and silence. I remember Tahrir Square, the broken bones that do not mend, And in Yangon, the monks who died at prayer. I saw… Read More ›
Numbers: Lingua Nova
“Language has run riot in an age of mass communication. It must be reduced to its proper function – the expression of authentic content, rather than its concealment.” Martin Esslin If Anonymous is not a hacking gang, With a master… Read More ›
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