Tag: alienation
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Breaking Up With the Wind
Summer wind hold my hand,grasp it, rub it gentle in the sunhoneyed soothing mother’s touch. Hide the coughing chimneys up ahead,the night in the strut of yellow cat eyes,amber streetlights yielding to blue tv glows.Coming cold blows my hands into jacket tight.The star I follow now hidden, dark,lost in the arguing noise outside and in.
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Only Thistles Will Do
1 I eat thistles to do away with my hunger for green life,capturing in pixel pricks what my prying eyes can not evade.The forest offers no inheritance,every branch has its best name 2I wish to learn and know the work songs of smaller, silent things,blend not into the shrubs but rocks,the mutes of this dry…
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Fremont: An Afghan Immigrant Looks for Her Right Place
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie. Review: Fremont is a…