Category Archives: language

LOVE Charles Bukowski

November 18, 2011 – 6:12 am
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How to Swear in Thailand

July 12, 2011 – 8:12 pm

Like most farangs I had a hard time learning Thai and only those Thais close to me can decipher what I’m trying to say with a Bostonian accent. Conversely most of what is said to me is too fast for my ears to catch the meaning, but one day I was arguing with a woman [...]

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Fort Greene Haiku Times Two

July 7, 2011 – 3:27 pm

The crackle of Rip Van Winkle thunder then a strobe of flash lightning. White rain blurring the buildings. Rumble overhead. Storm passing eastward. The foto is the view from my window. That is not a haiku And neither are the first two Haikus consist of two or more separate images. I think I achieved that. [...]

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The Unfreedom of Speech

January 8, 2011 – 12:25 pm

Freedom of Speech is protected by the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a [...]

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The Freedom of No Speech

October 14, 2010 – 9:05 pm

Moses led his people out of Egypt without a map. The distance from the Nile to Palestine was a ten day walk, yet the prophet wandered through the eastern deserts for forty years. Like all men he wasn’t willing to admit that he was fucking lost and neither are the Zionists of the occupied territories [...]

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