October 2009
3 posts
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Puddle my Buddle lil Lucille Ball
“It’s true until it’s untrue.”
-Lucille Ball
There are no paramilitary units stationed in the Student Life Center of my campus, no snipers cowering in civilian clothes behind the ledges of the Health Science building, certainly no tsunami’s breaking over the metro rail of Takoma Park…hell, I haven’t seen a fist-fight, a melee, a skirmish...
Tweens on Fire
I’m turning in all my pictures, home movies, mayday scriptures, for the earth to turn away from accords now nothing more than softened bursting blisters,
you never felt as bad as the days you missed her, so you collected beanie babies to fill the void
… and married her sister.
and so it goes, another savannah fire, the unnamed african government cut the budget
and the prime...
September 2009
5 posts
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...”
– Oscar Wilde
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For a Minute
There were questions in the air as we sat in the auditorium, such as, “Will the professor of our African American History class actually show up today?” and, “Why does it seem that a third of the students have dropped this class already?” but perhaps the biggest thing on everyone’s mind seemed to be, “Who’s the black guy in the Spider-Man t-shirt playing...
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The Truth Is...
…I’m old for a college freshman. Not Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School old, but let’s just say that I’m pleased when the other students remark that I could pass for twenty six. At least it’s a step in the right direction … and much like Dangerfield, I’m often demanding respect, at least from myself. So today as I sat at my desk wondering how I tested so...
