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This is one of my more experimental works.

Code:

Mercury Rain

Silver--mercury drops 
F A L L I N G- 
                     softly 
                     softly 

A whisper upon the wind 
C A L L I N G-
                     softly
                     softly 

A leaf blowing 
W R O N G F U L L Y 
the other way: 
                     turn back
                     too late 

...

Moving alone in my room
Thinking how to survive in this world
Shouting on self
What to do now don’t know,
Where to move???
Words are showing my frustration
No other option
How to show my anger
Don’t have any one to share my pain
Now what to do
I need salvation
My soul is cried enough
My heart is numb has no feeling
I am feeling my words are leaving me
Want to cry
Where to move???
...

I'm sick. Again. I have gotten sick way too many times more than usual this year. This time it's a bad cough and an ear infection. This morning the cough was really harsh - I got breathless pretty easily.

Anyways, you might know that I've gotten three jobs this school year babysitting -- two groups and a little girl from one of the groups. The little girl, whom I'll call K, is an absolute doll. She turned three years old a few days before Christmas and is amazingly alert for her ...

I don't know whether anyone will read this or not, but in case you are wondering, the cane in my avatar is a sword-cane.

In actual fact, I carry a solid-metal Parker pen, not a sword, on my person, together with a small notebook. This pen, given to me by one of my students, means a lot to me. I hope that I'll never have to use it for other than writing....

This school blog answers the question:

"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." Is this true? Support, deny, or qualify this statement.

Richard Avedon was an amazing photographer but was often criticized for taking a person out of contest, throwing them in front of a stark white background and photographing them. His pictures of the “real west” hardly are accurate at all, he handpicked the stereotypes and left out everything else. In response ...