translations & ghost stories

 

        It was the story of a ghost who wrote in French. Or was it? It might have been that the story of a ghost was written in French, or perhaps it was a French story that was ghost written. Translations are a lot of work; this is why I don’t trust the Bible. 

james lee jobe

        I owe my solitude to other people.

Alan Watts

Autobiography of Thud, a poem by Omotara James

        Ghost stories written as algebraic equations. Little Emily at the blackboard is very frightened. The X's look like a graveyard at night. The teacher wants her to poke among them with a piece of chalk. All the children hold their breath. The white chalk squeaks once among the plus and minus signs, and it's quiet again. 

Charles Simic, 1928-2023 CE 

Your voice when it deepened,

the sound of you.

Your embrace, it only grew with time,

like a bear grows in strength.

Your eyes, sad and tired,

even when you laughed.

Your truth, all that you never told me

of the hard life that you lived.

Your death, the terrible sink hole

that swallowed me, your father.

james lee jobe

Muddy Waters, Rollin' & Tumblin'

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

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