Wet Dreaming, Sort Of
On Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers” Decadence is good for you. Take your decadence like you take your vitamins. I understood this whilst freezing my bum off outside a Canadian Cineplex,...
Category: Themes
Son and Heir
It was lovely for a while I thought he had it in him To do somersaults in the sky And land with a jubilant whoosh In a field of marshmallows pink and white I believed he could race against the wind...
An Open Letter to the American People
To all Americans who have been horrified by the dreadful scenes of the charred and mutilated bodies of their fellow countrymen and women dragged through the streets and hung from bridges in Iraq , I...
On Virginity
“What IS virginity?” I first knew that different people would answer this question differently as I rode down an escalator in a German shopping mall a few years ago; my friend turned toward me...
Mel, I Hardly Knew Ye
Oh dear. Does a certain movie mean we can't make fun of Mel Gibson anymore? If I were to play a free-association game using the image of Mel Gibson, the words and phrases that most readily come to...
WORLD TRADE IMBALANCE: IS CHINA GUILTY?
Three giant trading blocs account for more than one half of the value of world’s trade at current prices. The biggest is the European Union (EU-15) whose intra-trade in 2001 was worth $1,418...
Powerless
You lose your sense of reality if you are not part of civil society With material benefits comfort is what you find Practicing your rights however Delivers peace of mind You are allowed to raise...
To those of you who have passed away…
We feel for you But act we don't We share your pain But fight we won't We revel proudly in your courage As if it were our own For the impotent and weak Can drone on and on Our sympathies to your...
Tante Widad
My grandmother's sister is a spinster, She is of the nomadic type, constantly asked to move there from here. She tries to settle among us and be comfortable. Attempting to enter the conversation She...
Another Day
So suddenly I am situated alone in this hole. I fidget for God’s sake but don’t expect any live action so I drag a big toe nail back and forth along the tile, for lack of anything better. I...