Give sorrow words. – William Shakespeare Every death’s a knot, A thorn that snags the soul. I sing my grief into the ground And cover up the hole. No simple anodyne, These actions that we take To sanctify the absences… Read More ›
Poetry
Numbers: Badawi to His Torturers
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. – Psalm 84:7 Cracking and shattering, Shoulders and ribcages Stronger than oak under Cane after cane: “Pain is the weaponry Favored by weaklings and Strength… Read More ›
Numbers: All the Wrong People Dying
For Henry and Eric “Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.” ― Wm. Shakespeare, Macbeth Look how the world is lying, All the wrong people dying All the worst people thriving. Those who once were pariahs Fight for a crown of… Read More ›
Numbers: Autocorrect
The Internet will never be your friend, It isn’t now and won’t be at the end. It’s not a tool of which you are the master, It’s just a way to sell a little faster. No magic kingdom, this plutocracy,… Read More ›
Numbers: The Boy Who’d Kill
“Let the man rap a plan, said he’d send him home. But his hope was a rope, and he should have known.” – Curtis Mayfield (Freddie’s Dead) The boy who’d kill Is now your hero His central skill Is playing… Read More ›
Numbers: Riot
“Things’ll look a whole lot better for the working classes, working classes.” – Gang of Four, I Found That Essence Rare As I am a son of the working classes, I cast a critical eye on wealth. As I am Regular… Read More ›
Numbers: Morpheme Tales II
NINE: Manhunt in the Heartland (Muñoz Was a Righteous Bust) I hear the inner intern’s bobbin knob popping, an interurban daily Davey Crockett slop bucket parapet stopping clocks on the aboveground spot to talk shop. Check the squeaking jobbers on… Read More ›
Numbers: Onomastics
“Midway through this life of ours I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.” – Dante Alighieri We name the things we fear And by so doing, weaken them. When what we dread’s unclear We… Read More ›
#Anonymous #Sabu Week Numbers: Nerd Agonistes
“Do your own time.” – prison saying Two things rob the world of wonder: Reducing life to magic numbers And twisting it to hide your blunders. Which is which is hard to say. One denies there’s a price to pay,… Read More ›
#Anonymous #Sabu Week: Our review of what it’s like to eat Sabu
This contribution to Sabu Week is the final chapter in the saga of Sabu the pig. If you’ll recall, he made his first appearance on Thursday the 19th at the PAPS-organised Stratfor Street Party bringing attention to imprisoned Anons Jeremy Hammond… Read More ›
Numbers: Large Number Theory
“The true mystery of the world is the visible.” – Oscar Wilde Medieval lunch box chums sprinkle salt on shams, Yielding to tramlines that run up the backs of stockings. Pronghorn antelope burst apart in a shower of springs Amid… Read More ›
Numbers: The Fiction of a Lock
“Open, locks, Whoever knocks!” – Wm. Shakespeare The day a man first locked his door, His neighbor learned to lift the latch. He bent a branch and stripped a switch And softly crossed the empty floor. The rich throw bolts… Read More ›
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 ›
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