It is best to return to the classroom, and resume your show of order and rationality. Pretend you do not hear the rhythmic pounding of fists through the wall, as if something is communicating directly with you.
Browsing: Creative
after Marwan Makhoul because I cannot find something beautiful to say after sing-songs of death and glory by a blood-thirsty state drown out…
“قمرة يا قمرة لا تطلعي ع الشجرة”“O moon, o moon, don’t climb up the tree” My mother would sing to…
Dust-ridden air filtered through the sheltered tunnel, and Aurix could hear each shift of their life amplified as they adjusted their knee pads. Then, a sigh. Their protective gear was itchy.
The thing about budget airlines is that when something goes terribly wrong, one tends to jump to the conclusion that…
It was desperate gasps, it was glittering mortality. Yet absence from it was anguish. I use the sea to document my life. Somehow, the moments when my chin slipped above its molten surface were the happiest I ever documented.
Space, the final frontier. Its endless expanse is framed in science fiction as a clean and untainted new world for humanity to enter- but leaving Earth will not take the humanity from us.
Promise me that there will always be one more orange slice left for me.
Promise me that you will peel it yourself.
Promise, promise, promise.
He died in 2022, so the joke’s on him, I suppose. For someone who thought everyone else was an idiot, he was the one who wasted his life wallowing in superiority.
I do, however, believe that it is important to consider whether our desire to remove texts from curricula is guided, in part, by an unwillingness to confront and sit with the discomfort of acknowledging that we sometimes enjoy things that are unfair to others.
