Day: May 12, 2012

The Best Blurb I’ve Seen in Ages

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The back of Alasdair Gray’s 1982, Janine. I promptly secured the book.

Portrait of William Butler Yeats by His Father John Butler Yeats

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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (Full Film)

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“How to make three little children dance in a glass upon a table”

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From Hocus pocus, or The whole art of legerdemain, in perfection : by which the meanest capacity may perform the whole without the help of a teacher : together with the use of all the instruments belonging thereto : to which is now added abundance of new and rare inventions by Henry Dean

“cruelty. don’t talk to me about cruelty” — Lucille Clifton

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A poem by Lucille Clifton—

cruelty. don’t talk to me about cruelty
or what i am capable of.

when i wanted the roaches dead i wanted them dead
and i killed them. i took a broom to their country

and smashed and sliced without warning
without stopping and i smiled all the time i was doing it.

it was a holocaust of roaches, bodies,
parts of bodies, red all over the ground.

i didn’t ask their names.
they had no names worth knowing.

now i watch myself whenever i enter a room.
i never know what i might do.