archives for Monday 20 October 2008
the bridge
Monday 20 October 2008 | someone left a cookie
I was stiff and cold, I was a bridge, I lay over a ravine. My toes on one side, my fingers clutching the other, I had clamped myself fast into the crumbling clay. The tails of my coat fluttered at my sides. Far below brawled the icy trout stream. No tourist strayed to this impassable [...]
perspective
Monday 20 October 2008 | 5 cookies in the jar
COUNTRY At the very corner of this old map is a country I long for. It is the country of apples, hills, lazy rivers, sour wine, and love. Unfortunately a huge spider has spun its web over it, and with sticky saliva has closed the toll gates of dreams. It is always like that: an [...]
well it’s about freakin’ time
Monday 20 October 2008 | 4 cookies in the jar
I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said. Such things as ‘Well you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.’ Well the correct answer is ‘He is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian, he’s always been a Christian.’ But the [...]
