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Langston Hughes, “Joy”
Posted: July 17, 2010, 8:55 pm by keguro
I went looking for Joy, Slim, dancing Joy, Gay, laughing Joy, Bright-eyed Joy– And I found her Driving the butcher’s cart In the arms of the butcher boy! Such company, such company, As keeps this young nymph, Joy! Langston Hughes, 1926 -
Whispers from a Safe Place, Perhaps a Closet
Posted: July 17, 2010, 6:18 am by keguro
Despite many years of training myself to write through fear, and to speak anticipating indifference, if not malice, I am, once again, in a too-familiar space: trying to make a case for something dismissed as relatively unimportant, my life. I cannot trust that such a life has any value in the Kenyan space. Those who [...]
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Fish cakes
Alas a fish cake.
Yet more fish cakes
Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.
The end of the fish cakes