February 2009 Blog Posts (2)

a poem I wrote at the Cape of Good Hope, Jan. 18, 2009

poem for Cape Town. white

cottony waves (like fluffy cash

crop your cousins gleaned from southern

American

plantations), they crash

against untamable

extremities of Earth, so glad

not to be

mutilated and reformed

by toughened brown

hands into bricks (subjugated

people suffer alongside desecrated

land unless settler capital

decrees a national park, meaning (for nations

of Capital, that is (not-brown nations), living

in… Continue

Added by rachsig on February 9, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

blog entry #2: there's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like pollo rico.......... - Washington, D.C./Arlington, VA January 2009

I spent last saturday at home in the d.c. area with my parents. i hitched a ride down 95 with my old friend sean. it was the kind of ride where springsteen’s “glory days” was relevant and played on the radio as we talked about the good times we had growing up. i swear, many a classic car from our youth (ford ltd classic, ford taurus classic, honda accord classic-i lived in a fancy neighborhood) drove by as the song blared. the drivers let their cigarettes burn as their voices sang at the top of… Continue

Added by John Rouse on February 5, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment