2005/09/29

essay: #014 HISTORY OF LOVE.



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The History of Love.
The History of Hate.
We live in a beautiful world of unimaginable horrors.

History of Love, a book.
Made my heart grow wings and fly away....

13: THE ETERNAL DISAPPOINTMENT OF LIFE AS IT IS.

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Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time joy was felt, and a first time for sadness. For a while, new feelings were invented all the time. Desire was born early, as was regret. When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of resentment on the one hand, and
alienation, loneliness on the other. It might have been a certain counterclockwise movement of the hips that marked the birth of ecstasy: a bolt of lightening that caused the first feeling of awe, or maybe it was the body of girl named Alma...."
History of Love, Nicole Krauss

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2005/09/01

essay: #013 INSIDE THE BUBBLE




c. Reuters.

Some days.
Poetry drips off my tongue.
Into the endless epitaphs.
And hypnotic laws of
Cause and effect.

The lyrics say:
"We live in a beautiful world..."

But the news.
Speaks differently...

"FIRE ROARS THROUGH PARISIAN APARTMENT BUILDING."
Filled with migrants.
And their babes.
Drunk on the notion.
Of a New World.
Kinder than the last.
But no less deadly.

"We just saw the bodies of seven children who were
asphyxiated. It's an abominable spectacle."

Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy


Casualties.
Small.
Insignificant...
Or maybe.
Not so...

And now...

Just cinders on the wind.

RIP.

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