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The End of Unhappiness and Tears
September 20th, 2009 · Written by Trent Reker · No Comments
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Of Beggars and Kings
A Day Trip to Agra
April 22nd, 2008 · Written by Dade Cariaga · 1 Comment
I remember getting out of the van, seeing the Red Fort over there, across that muddy moat with the little trickle of muddy water meandering in the muddy streambed. The Red Fort looked like some sandcastle that thousands of little sunbathers, sometime, way back in the long dream of this timeless land, had dug out of the river basin, with thousands of little sand shovels and sand pails. And time and the sun had hardened it, compacted it, made it dense and strong.
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So long ago. No time at all.
January 21st, 2008 · Written by JM Tohline · 6 Comments
Esau held onto the guardrail. Leaned out into empty space. The frozen lake beneath him. How far down?
The ice made his fingers slip. He leaned out further.
How far?
Far enough. [...]
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Monkey Don’t
December 9th, 2007 · Written by David Blaine · 1 Comment
The quadrennial quandary,
choosing between
the lesser of two lechers
as they bisect bilateral boundaries,
splitting atoms and Adams,
exporting Middle America
in the making of little Americas. [...]
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A Toast to Modern Beauty
September 3rd, 2007 · Written by Rachael St. John · 1 Comment
Lies, Deceit, Shame in defeat
Trading lives for moments of glory
One by one the morals diminish
Eating themselves alive
Intimidated by the impending doom.
The human race is left with
Only pieces of its broken word and
The horrors that penetrated the useless defenses
Because nobody was valiant enough to
Believe in the darkness, in the cold [...]
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