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Hi guys! Dropped out of Litnet for a while, but you will be seeing me around a bit more here and then. Missed you all, but knew I'd be back here again somewhere when.

Partly it was the Arabic site thing, partly it was I felt I was online too much at times, and needed to take a break. There was a period of internet cafe usage, but I'm freer to use the internet now, with it in my room. Been travelling around China, and then settling in to my current place, teaching English (even now), ...

William Safire, RIP

Well, another person I revered has passed away, the conservative columnist and word maven, William Safire. Safire was never exactly my type of conservative. He certainly was wishy-washy on social issues, but certainly very strong on economic and foreign policy issues. He was actually Richard Nixon’s speechwriter and had authored a few classic speeches. He obviously had a way with words, having come up with phrases “nattering nabobs of negativism” to label the ...

Prison Glass

I am aware of a feeling
of something like eyes
watching me,

as if from the dead,
of a Netherworld
I have neither been
nor dreamed.

What is left, but for me
to descend down
skeleton stairs
never to be seen.

These reflective pools
holding twin moons
belong to a place
beyond even illusion,

so I stray among the ruins
of fragmented ...

Post of high heaven’s

Invenerable bed

Set in a maven’s

Impenetrable stead


Mark of the biased

Rhetorical speech

Hatched of hints’ gayest

Intractable reach


The light tread of hypocrisy

Heavier step of criticism

Drive ’round bureaucracy

Built on stark euphemism


So, send a lover to wretch
...

I'm happy.

If you guys ever want to send me a note, that would be fantastic. Let me know and I'll give you my box address here at school.

I love being a college student. It's freakishly busy, but God is so good! Everything's fun and crazy hard and the people are all so cool! And I love my two roommates - I'll "profile" them eventually, but for now, C is the gentlewoman and E will take over the world.

Your future doctor of literature,
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