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From the Don.
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- 1 Do you live in a city (large or small), rural area, suburbs, metropolis or what?
Leipzig, where Goethe drank himself silly and set the famous pub brawl in Faust, on the ancient East-West trade route between the Russian steppes and the misty North Sea ports, where Bach produced much of his offspring and most of his music too, where a churlish native of the city and spiteful party secretary blew up its dominating University Church, where one balmy night in Autumn a group of mild-mannered church-goers remained outside the crumbling Nikolai Church and walked together through the soot-rained, cobbled alleys and concrete boulevards (oh this city is windy when it wants to be, though it hardly ever witnesses the blue-grey downpour of a Nuremberg or a Cologne, it lies sheltered on the banks of its three rivers, built on marshlands, scalping the riperian forests, digging tunnels through sandy soil and mining lignite until there was nothing but crying pock-marks round its ever shifting borders) instigating the first of the Monday Demonstrations that would bring down a system of government, where Uncle Roland whiled away four years on the loudest, shrieking trams in Eastern Europe between a draughty dormitory room shared with three fellow mature students studying Marxist-Leninist Science to have a last shot of advancing their careers before two years later The Wall fell and he would be discharged as a party cadre without a pension claim after thirty years of teaching PE, where one day in February between a nocturnal snowstorm and a sun-drenched afternoon my daughter with the biggest wide-open blue eyes was born, where the spectre of rococco haunts the robotic gaze of unsuspecting shoppers before they stop aghast, where Angela Merkel studied the physics that would enable her to predict the quantum possibilities of politics and checkmate every last chauvinist in that most chauvinistic of German parties (oh Kohl's Mädchen how you rubbed kohl in all their eyes), where I linger and long like everyone between the silver German sky and the fleeting footing of the uprooted ground, this Leipzig, somewhere South of Berlin and West of Dresden, somewhere central if you can place it on a map or in your mind, this Leipzig is a medium-sized German city of 500,000 inhabitants.
2 Do you tell anything very personal on your SU pages or do you make a point of not doing so (or adopt an attitude somewhere in between)?
As I tend to skip blogs that are too personal (cringe) I try to keep anything too personal at a minimum. This page is mainly focussed on poetry anyway, which is a preoccupation that makes up a tiny sliver of my actual life. SU is good for hoarding stuff, but I prefer to hold on to my private woes for therapy should I ever seek it.
3 How do you rate yourself in terms of attractiveness, sex appeal and marketability (in the real, face-to-face, world)?
I've been with the same woman for the last 8 years and we have a daughter who's four. The latter tells me I am getting podgy, the former says I ain't bad-looking for a donkey.
4 What do or did you use the computer for besides SU?
Translating mind-numbingly boring articles on engineering, marketing reports into flat-screen televisions, stupendously jargon-laden papers on psychoanalysis and the like. It is surprising that my laptop only has as few dents as it actually has. But then, it is still new.
5 Have you ever experienced serious loss or a very difficult period in your life?
Yip.
- Let Me Count the Waves by Sandra Beasley : Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine...
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- Inject giraffes into your poems.
Yeah!
Best. Sestina. Ever.
- Wonky fruit and vegetables | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
- Jul 2, 12:42am (1 review) cooking http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/g...
They're back.
And this time they mean business.
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'Nuff said.
From our woman in Mexico.
- The Consolations of Pessimism by Alain de Botton, City Journal Spring...
- Jun 30, 10:35am
 (1 review) philosophy http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_pe... - "A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead."
Which is why I love frogs so much.
What?
PS Seneca was a miserable git, even if he was fond of dancing.
Thank you
for the frog.
- One Night Stanzas & Blog Archive & Featured Poet Christian Ward interviewed...
- Jun 28, 2:58am (1 review) poetry, blogs, christian-ward http://www.readthismagazine.co.uk/onenig...
Floods
The streets flood
with our childhood dreams.
Puddles blend into
astronauts, paving slabs, firemen.
Artists wash the pavements
in a sea of colour.
Our adult selves, thin as spindles,
watch from behind netted curtains,
holding each other as the houses
slowly move towards an ocean
of someone else's making, bodies
quivering like fish desperate for water.
Poem by Christian Ward. The page includes an interview which like all one night stanza interviews is a good read and sage in its perceptions and advice.
- Pedestrian
- Jun 27, 10:47am (1 review) politics, blogs, iran http://www.sidewalklyrics.com/
- From the page:
I am 25 years old, and until this Friday, I always thought the man we call the "supreme leader" knew what he was doing. He gave a preposterous speech after the chain murders nearly a decade ago calling the victims "insignificant dirt". I took it in and thought he had to do it as not to widen suspicion of the regime's involvement. He gave a terrible speech after the attacks on students 11 years ago and though I couldn't contain my anger, I kept quiet. He silenced the parliament members who wrote a historic bill on print media. And I only scowled. He silenced them again during the widespread FRAUD that took place during the seventh parliamentary elections, and I shut my mouth. I may have had VERY STRONG reservations about the operations he was running, but I thought that in the end, he was on the side of his people. But NO MORE.
Sounds like a simple enough conclusion, but we are ANGRY and PETRIFIED. For those of us who have gone through this metamorphosis, it feels like degradation and uncertainty.
A lot of us view this establishment very differently now. And we are NOT only the Westernized students living abroad, or the residents of North Tehran. Young or old, Tehrani or Shahrestani, we view this system, this man, with different eyes. The Islamic Republic will continue to be backed by popular support in the face of foreign adversary, but inside, it will never feel the same again.
[...]
Do read and follow this blog.
- Wailing of wolves in Iran as cries of Allahu akbar ring from roofs -...
- Jun 27, 9:32am (1 review) politics, iran http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...
- Ftp:
And each night, as the street demonstrations are crushed with overwhelming force and the regime cracks down on all other forms of dissent, it grows steadily louder and more insistent, not just in Tehran but in other densely populated cities of the Islamic Republic.
"It's the way we reassure ourselves that we are still here and we are still together," says Nushin, a woman who has never dared to rebel before.
"This is what people did before the revolution and I hope it warns the regime about what could happen if it doesn't change its way.
"And because I'm a religious person the sound resonating in the neighbourhood makes me feel better. Even my little daughter joins me, and I can see how she feels that she is part of something bigger. It is our unique way of civil disobedience and what's interesting is that it increases every time they do something that makes people angrier."
- Onexposure - 1x.com - Photo: Blue mosque by James Axford
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