They would not believe it, the Zapotec girls.
The English potter drove them to the Gulf of Tehuatepec
to show them the sea. They would not believe it was water.
I’ll bet Dad
is deeply conflicted about Paradise, if it is flush
with repentant Nazis, and God loves every one of them.
Why can’t the word hartal
Be translated into English?
The western media call
It a ‘general strike’:
Read MoreMaking friends isn’t easy.
Read MoreIt’s the 13th of June and we’re having trouble deciding on a film to watch.
So I ask you to say a word,
and I’ll match it with a movie.
An exercise existing somewhere in-between a Rorschach Test and Walter Benjamin.
I forget the word,
but we watch Y tu mamá también.
when I saw the deer lying sheltered beneath the tree it loved,
the tree it died for, it seemed a sacred place, consecrated—
and I could not bring myself to violate nature’s holy ground.
Fulfillment is when you repeatedly inform yourself of a given activity’s importance so as to be
able to trick yourself into believing said activity and its subsequent results matter.