Going to the movies….

Ave Maria
by Frank O’Hara
 Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to it’s true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images and when you grow [...]

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Life sucks and then you die…Or is there a better outlook?

SONGS OF INNOCENCE by William Blake
PIPING down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of peasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he, laughing, said to me:  
 ‘Pipe a song about a lamb!’
So I piped with merry cheer.
 ‘Piper, pipe that song again;’
So I piped: he wept to hear.  
‘Drop thy pipe, thy happy [...]

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Idealistic Change and Cervantes

Idealistic Change 

“Emplumada” by Lorna Dee Cervantes

When summer ended the leaves of snapdragons withered taking their shrill-colored mouths with them. They were still, so quiet. They were violet where umber now is. She hated and she hated to see them go. Flowers  born when the weather was good – this she thinks of, watching the branch [...]

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