January 2009
46 posts
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles. – I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud. ‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare. ‘Exactly so,’ said Alice. ‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on. ‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least – at least I mean what I say – that’s...
COUNTER-AMORES, III, 14
I’m bad - but I behave - I contradict myself - I never do what I depict. I don’t have morals, but I still live chaste; I write the worst so it won’t go to waste. I don’t lie down - but still a girl can lie on paper - to remember someone by. In sanity - a clean, well-lighted place - I write things you won’t read upon my face. Brides and virgins need their privacy;...
FABLE OF THE MERMAID AND THE DRUNKS
All these gentlemen were there inside When she entered, utterly naked. They had been drinking, and began to spit at her. Recently come from the river, she understood nothing. She was a mermaid who had lost her way. The taunts flowed over her glistening flesh. Obscenities drenched her golden breasts. A stranger to tears, she did not weep. A stranger to clothes,...
I will destroy you And the arrows are pointed And the archer’s delighted The thrill, the smell The shit I’ve been put through An angel to no one
My favorite..
Dinner; Anyone know where I can get good guacamole?
Seafood Frozen Section Giant Supermarket Dubai UAE.
Always a good place to catch up on one’s reading..
Dec 31 2008
Jan 1 2009
Again- different year, but nothing much has changed.. Except maybe the fog cleared.
up into the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will(kiss me)go out into the morning the young morning with a warm world in it (kiss me)you will go on into the sunlight the fine sunlight with a firm day in it you will go(kiss me down into your memory and a memory and memory i)kiss me,(will go)
e e cummings
prague 07
dubai 08
i really haven’t changed all that much..
this sausage dog loves his sausage dog toy. he has 5.. ++!
Malls in Dubai: Ceilings of mandalas, stars, simulated skies, bright lights and Fish. Lots, and lots of fish.
innovation at its best: marrow extraction of De Ka at our Bak Kut Teh lunch
may i feel said he (i’ll squeal said she just once said he) it’s fun said she (may i touch said he how much said she a lot said he why not said she (let’s go said he not too far said she what’s too far said he where you are said she) may i stay said he (which way said she like this said he if you kiss said she may i move said he is it love said she) if...
if i love You (thickness means worlds inhabited by roamingly stern bright faeries if you love me) distance is mind carefully luminous with innumerable gnomes Of complete dream if we love each (shyly) other, what clouds do or Silently Flowers resembles beauty less than our breathing
Save one white girl, who deemed it would not be So dread a thing to feel a sea-god’s arms Crushing her breasts in amorous tyranny, And longed to listen to those subtle charms Insidious lovers weave when they would win Some fencèd fortress, and stole back again, nor thought it sin To yield her treasure unto one so fair, And lay beside him, thirsty with love’s drouth, Called him...
Benediction
Tantum ergo Sarcramentum Veneremur cemui Et antiquuum documentum Novo cedat ritui Praestet fides supplementum Sensuum defectui. Down in adoration falling This great sacrament we hail, Ancient types have long departed, Newer rites of grace prevail. Faith for all defects supplying Where the feeble senses fail.
stuck in my head for days..
Come to me, scared...
Architectural Exhibtion: At the Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi
4 architects, 4 projects - A new UAE
“Click-click; tick-tick
Clock snips time in two
Lap of rain
In the drain pipe...”
– Sylvia Plath
I wanted to be with you alone And talk about the...
“And thus when by Poetry - or when by Music - we find ourselves melted into tears...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
Even as I transited into 2009, I felt no resolution, no needs, no urges. The only ‘goal’ i could muster was “To catch up on Life”. Live it better, slower, Love it more, Learn faster.. Sylvia Plath, once again, describes my feelings, ambitions and desires quite acutely. I cannot quote her enough.
” I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to...
My mind’s distracted and diffused My...
Small indeed was my appetite. This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgement; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence. That part of me which I had the power of projecting, had lately been much exercised and...