These Poems Associate Freely
I broke the mold. I made a mockery of your elation. I tried my hand at gravity and watched everything fly away and become the moon and so it was that nothing stood still again. And life was all a...
Month: September 2007
I Don’t Freaking Care
Just as I was beginning to sketch out this column, commissioned as it was by Global Comment, I hit a minor snag: I had no clue what I was talking about. Apparently, the whole situation in the...
The Big Dreary
I must be stuck in some dark-humoured comedy sketch. Everywhere I go in Kyiv, the same exact conversation follows me (well, perhaps I’m fudging a little, one conversation I overheard involved two...
Finkelstein-ed Academia and the Truth about Palestine
The long bitter saga of DePaul University’s scandalous decision to deny tenure to one of its most prolific and internationally renowned public intellectuals, Professor Norman Finkelstein, is...
Conspiracy Theory
I’ve forgotten the ending. It’s one of the things they took in those long days of dull yellow light – a way to pinch out the flame and watch the smoke rise against the window at night. I woke...