“Control is like four fingers pressed together to form the tip of a chrome .66 … “
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I’m hungry, – so feed yourself – , But you know what I need instead? My hand to my heart and a gun to my head, No fear, just a rumble growing louder, In the tunnel of my belly, Kick-starting the engine into gear, Fist to cuff, I roll up my sleeves, Wipe the beads [...] There’s a third player in this game, I’ve never met him, And I don’t know his name, But I do know that he is a man, With hands like a woman, And breath like Southern Comfort, And a voice like Billy the Kid, And a white-pearl smile, And he’s got kid gloves, And light brown [...] When you begin to dissect your fever / You begin to direct your pain / And thrive in marginal regions … I know what you’re planning, / Tonight, on scamming, / And frightening me… June 16, 2010, at 3:42 pm — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing | writing blog — Arizona / Bill Clinton / borders / China / citizenship / Euna Lee / illegal immigration / Laura Ling / North Korea / racial profiling / THEME: illegal immigration / wealth / xenophobia
One can’t help but think of the Cold War “red terror” reign of fear and the subsequent post-9/11 fear that triggered a rash of xenophobia against immigrants coming into the U.S. Many scholarly critics—the most recent, Jodi Kim, in her new 2010 book Ends of Empire, have traced a history of U.S. imperialism in Asia [...] …Around the hinges and around the bend, / Of the corner, / The coroner of all things foreign… “once i sat and watched the summer April 20, 2010, at 3:00 pm — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing — Joanna Lord / poem / Poetry / THEME: poetry
Heretics are everywhere … April 20, 2010, at 7:30 am — Arts and Culture | Audio | Poetry | poetry reading | Writing — Nicky Schildkraut / poem / Poetry / poetry reading / THEME: poetry
It was never hysterical. She had fled the border, into a different border. The professor referred to her as his only power, the flower of her torso spreading a stemmed shadow across his floor. |
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