happy new year!

in korean culture, it is the year of the GOLDEN pig. this is no ordinary year, folks. children born in the year of the golden pig are stronger, faster, smarter and can jump over buildings while calculating the instantaneous slope of their line of trajectory.

some golden pig year facts:
* it happens only every 600 years (wow!)

*korea expects the birth rate to rise by 10 percent this year (no way!)

*some koreans are not planning on having babies this year because the competition pool for getting into higher education institutions will be even larger (bada bing!)

books

some books, i like to read in absolute silence. those books i don't take to coffee, or read at work. i wait to read these books when the house is vacant and the weather cold.

i love a book that you can pick up in the afternoon and read in the absolute silence until you've finished it that day.

i love a book that is steeped in culture. i love superstitious grandmothers and backward thinking. i love revolutions, bastards and unsanctioned marriage. i love foreign words in italics and religion that suffocates the youth.

your mouth is lovely/nancy richler

fortune cookie says

"be moderate where pleasure is concerned, avoid fatigue"

roger that, fortune cookie.

delicious

i find oddly satisfying:

the oils of a good coffee mixed with the fat of half and half, and casually floating in my americano

wet couplets

the walls screamed in blue
but i'm fluent in tangerine

i'm bleeding triangle tears
and drowning in another's filth

there's a trapdoor
that i can't open

i'm lubricated by oily sadness
and weeping fat

a pounding of the chest
because i can't rip apart the soul

dark demons battle white blood cells
but i'm already terminal