Dicembre 2011
12 post
i bought more books than i have time to read. such a welcome problem.
feel no shame for who you are now in your blood
Time must never be thought of as pre-existing in any sense; it is a manufactured quantity - Hermann Bondi
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds; where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough, a modest living, and no man is made possessor...
the singing birds nestled into the backdrop my feet sinking slowly into the sidewalk in the morning everything seemed like nothing more than particles stuck in place and i was too
Southern trees Bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves And blood at the roots Black bodies Swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin’ From the poplar trees Pastoral scene Of the gallant south Them big bulging eyes And the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia Clean and fresh Then the sudden smell Of burnin’ flesh Here is a fruit For the crows to pluck For the rain...