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“16-bit Intel 8088 Chip” by Charles Bukowski

July 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments

with an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc drive. nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer. both Kaypro and Osborne computers use the CP/M operating system but can’t read each other’s handwriting for they format (write on) discs in different [...]

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Black Cab Sessions: Benjamin Zephaniah

July 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Sheer brilliance. Watch it all the way through. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Share:

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“La Paloma in London” by Claude McKay

October 25th, 2009 · No Comments

About Soho we went before the light; We went, unresting six, craving new fun, New scenes, new raptures, for the fevered night Of rollicking laughter, drink and song, was done. The vault was void, but for the dawn’s great star That shed upon our path its silver flame, When La Paloma on a low guitar [...]

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“Back Yard” by Carl Sandburg

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Shine on, O moon of summer. Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak, All silver under your rain to-night. An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an accordion. A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next month; to-night they are throwing you kisses. An old man [...]

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“The Woman At The Washington Zoo” by Randall Jarrell

July 26th, 2009 · No Comments

The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at the leopard like the leopard. And I. . . . this print of mine, that has kept its color Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null Navy I wear to work, and wear from [...]

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“Death of a Naturalist” By Seamus Heaney

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

All the year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods. Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun. Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell. There were dragon-flies, spotted butterflies, But best of all was [...]

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“Partition” by W. H. Auden

May 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission, Having never set eyes on the land he was called to partition Between two peoples fanatically at odds, With their different diets and incompatible gods. “Time,” they had briefed him in London, “is short. It’s too late For mutual reconciliation or rational debate: The [...]

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“Metamorphosis” by Charles Bukowski

May 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor scrubbed the walls vacuumed cleaned the toilet the bathtub scrubbed the bathroom floor and cut my toenails and my hair. then all on the same day the plumber came and fixed the kitchen faucet and the toilet and the gas man [...]

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“Night Poem” by Margaret Atwood

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

There is nothing to be afraid of, it is only the wind changing to the east, it is only your father the thunder your mother the rain In this country of water with its beige moon damp as a mushroom, its drowned stumps and long birds that swim, where the moss grows on all sides [...]

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“Liverpool” by Michael Donoghy

January 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Ever been tattooed? It takes a whim of iron, takes sweating in the antiseptic-stinking parlour, nothing to read but motorcycle magazines before the blood-sopped cotton, and, of course, the needle, all for — at best — some Chinese dragon. But mostly they do hearts, hearts skewered, blurry, spurting like the Sacred Heart on the arms [...]

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“It Ain’t What You Do, It’s What It Does To You”, by Simon Armitage

January 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare, one pair of busted Levi’s and a bowie knife. I have lived with thieves in Manchester. I have not padded through the Taj Mahal, barefoot, listening to the space between each footfall picking up and putting down its print against the marble floor. [...]

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“Across The Red Sky” by Katherine Mansfield

December 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Across the red sky two birds flying, Flying with drooping wings. Silent and solitary their ominous flight. All day the triumphant sun with yellow banners Warred and warred with the earth, and when she yielded Stabbed her heart, gathered her blood in a chalice, Spilling it over the evening sky. When the dark plumaged birds [...]

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