A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

-- Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 10:19


ilunga - noun

A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.

Miss Zilinskiene's own bete noir is 'googly,' a cricketing term for 'an off-breaking ball disguised by the bowler with an apparent leg-break action.'

But then many people find cricket incomprehensible anyway. Naa.

Today is an accounting day.

crow jane

Kattaryna has lost her fight with cancer at age 34. Dvotchka, you are missed.


VI.

Just forty-fours hours in the threshold city
And the film-maker jettisons his camera

Because the truth flies in his face
Like that damned parrot! — Bernadette

Is no different from the woman armed
With a hot iron, and images collapse like

Galaxies in the urchin dust of Delhi's exposed
Alleyways — and it is not India that he has found

It is home

-- Rukmini Bhaya Nair

...
Bowsprit cracked with ice and paint cracked with heat.
I made this, I have forgotten
And remember.
The rigging weak and the canvas rotten
Between one June and another September.
Made this unknowing, half conscious, unknown, my own.
The garboard strake leaks, the seams need caulking.
This form, this face, this life
Living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me
Resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken,
The awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.
...
T.S.E.