Category Archives: ancestors
On Living – By: Nazim Hikmet
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Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example–
I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,
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The Letters
Dearest M,
Today your letter, whatever version, found me. Again hanging from some wretched cliff, the asses and mules all gone again, fallen or eaten maybe. Only I remained of our small band, though now my heart’s Sherpa who carries, along with your epistle, the red weight without the smallest flinch and how we will [...]
In these hours
It’s often in these hours when things reach us most deeply, maybe it’s not, maybe it’s time to talk about myself or perhaps I should just be writing in a journal, one of those salty old books that line the walls of this dark hold, sitting on rotting boards, rotting themselves in the humid air, [...]
