A SERIES OF EXTREMELY INSPIRING EXPERIENCES HAVE come my way in the last 24 hours. I will post about them here, seperately. I got up this morning after falling asleep, as per ususal lately, with one index finger snug in the book (which happens to be Gregory David Roberts’ memoir, Shantaram right now) [...]
IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED “ARTFUL LONDON” THE NEW YORKER claimed “the original purpose of the Whitechapel Gallery was ‘to fill the minds of the people with thoughts to exclude those created by gloom or sordid temptation,’ and for a hundred years this bright space in London’s East End has been succeeding…”(March 5, 2007 issue).
That seemed [...]
“Homeless”
Even the homeless seem complacent in my adopted city.Finished crouching outside the rushing warmth of subway mouths,they lie, mummified, in doorways and alleys.I imagine briefly, with the rush of air down the step from the bus,that I too had to become well versed in the virtuesof an eave turned this way, or a grate, or [...]
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MOLESKIN: according to Wikipedia, a moleskin is a type of fabric, a refined pelt of a mole, often manufactured by British mills… The article also contains this interesting association for the word ‘moleskin’…
…A moleskin is also, allegedly, a pink (flesh coloured) piece of covering for the genital area of a female. The name derives [...]
The following are a few poem-fragments that have appeared to me in my walks lately, especially through Regent’s park. They are extremely unfinished…but i want to publish them because i haven’t written any poetry here in too long a time. I will start again with more poems, and finished ones, in the next [...]
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