"this is my desire / consume me like a fire / cause i just want something beautiful / to touch me"

[larryhammer]

Sometimes a randomwalk of the 'nets gets you interesting places. From Metafilter, I found this site of troubadour lyrics, many in English. From there, I found this awesome site of poetry in translation. Where I found "Doesn't your heart hurt" by Guaman Poma, translated from the Quechua by Dorn & Brotherston.

A People's History of Tattooine. "What if Mos Eisley wasn’t really that wretched and it was just Obi Wan being racist again?" (via)

How to talk to babies about Marxist theory.

---L.

Subject quote from "Something Beautiful," NEEDTOBREATHE.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Tomas Tranströmer haiku! Oh, my!

Wonderful links - thank you!

[larryhammer]

There's some interesting stuff on that page.

---L.

[snakypoet]

My Dad probably had a more effective way of talking to babies. At any rate family legend said that my first words, complete with raised fist, were, 'Down with the catalists!' (I couldn't quite say 'capitalists'.)

[larryhammer]

Hee!