Don’t believe the media, just believe me, so says madness, Forget your free speech. Madame Liberty, speak up, tell the truth in print and on the airwaves. Do not shrink back from bullies or be hollowed out by threats. Report with honesty, let truth flow so that an informed public and Congress can work and …
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Born 1957, 18th February, Shillong India. Welsh Mission Hospital. The eyes blue, so blue like a British exclaimed the doctor. A hundred years after the mutiny. Mother came from Mymensing, now in Bangladesh. A migrant with no stories of bloodshed, only that of one humanity. Hindu/Muslim. Now a migrant, I search for those living roots,…
Why do award committees pin the tail on the horse’s ass? Because award committees combine a universal truth (“everyone’s a critic”) with an old punch line (“the committee in charge of designing a horse came up with a camel”). What is a critic? According to the critic Kenneth Tynan, “the critic is one who knows…
Hey, all you old timers! Remember when Kenneth Koch wrote “Sixty Plays” or whatever it was called? They were hilarious little premises, only one or two sentences long, plus a title — like, “An elderly homosexual describes the geography and culture of Mexico City to a Norwegian farm girl.” That’s one that stuck in my…
That’s Mel Torme narrating the documentary. Related Stories The Poetics of Distraction [by Jerome Sala] Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
imagine a world with no car commercials imagine a world where people didn’t text while driving imagine a world with no religion to fight over imagine a world where tolerance was a given imagine a world where dogs weren’t used for fighting imagine a world… The post No Car Commercials | G. S. Katz appeared…
Who Is that girl? Who walks along with Those wistful eyes And just sighs A painful sigh Full of memory And remembrance She is A girl of the past A girl forgotten Just a shadow Of what she once was All that remains is a faint Hum A sigh And a meaningful Goodbye Of that…
