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Archive for February, 2011

On the directionlessness

It’s Saturday now and I have not been home yet. I’ve been back and forth between midtown and Harlem wondering in what direction I should be headed, sometimes walking, sometimes on a train (wasting money I don’t have to spare). No, seriously, I think I’m physically sick…

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#MusicMonday: A Song for You

I’ve been so many places in my life and times
I’ve sung lot of songs and made some bad rhymes
I’ve acted out my life on stages with ten thousand people watching
but we’re alone now…

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On shedding life changes

Everywhere where there is a professor is a classroom, including the 2-train on the way out of Brooklyn. [...] The real lesson happened somewhere in Downtown Brooklyn, when the prof. started telling cautionary anecdotes about “shedding the changes” …

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Poetry Corner Friday: Fainting with hunger

I’m fainting.
I need… What?
I’ll be fine…

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On potatoes and ricotta

So I had my pancakes and my cheese (after cleaning up the curdled milk) and danced around the kitchen thinking how awesome a human being I am because I can follow a simple recipe.

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