breaking news!

All my outfits have blood on them. Some have bullet wounds. Another, made of linen has been

cleaned for the final time. So when Easter comes again, I will be in no great hurry to strut it

since the bottom has wrinkled like the face of an ape. There are Bantu Pygmies who have

eaten all the mountain gorillas to extinction. They make loud clicking noises and dance away their

fears. Tirelessly they roll their arrows in poisons made from the belies of beetles. Nash their

loose teeth in those typographical symbols of ornaments. And a woman asks me a hundred times

whose mascara is it in my medicine cabinet? What right have I to come home after 3 am? Why

she cant see my cell phone?  Because there's only 700 gorillas left, I say. Funny how primatology

is rarely a good enough excuse.

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[LJW]

Contemporary "relationships"...women....how large is the world where an insecure fully clothed and manicured female can yell at her mate for a new call on his cell phone....while on the other side a mostly naked woman who can gut a fish with a stick is secure in her relationship. ; with her mate, self, and community.

I wear no makeup. Have never picked up another's cell phone. And I prefer men who grunt.

Love this Dana.

[writing mojo]

sometimes, i just run out of great things to say to you..
cats got the tongue with too many pernickety splits..
love the connection here

[Frank]

Took me some time to work out, slow.

I think about those pygmies too, how hard a life it is. I suppose they know nothing of conservation and perhaps they will die out too. Read a book on them a long time ago with photographs, the pygmies themselves were exploited by their full grown version, normal Bantus, who took the wild animal meat the pygmies brought to them and fed them in return bananas.

I suppose the only way is though education locally. Offer them 1000 bananas or 100 banana trees. Then let them work out what is the better long term option.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

a very clever piece...it's like people say "that's the oldest excuse in the book"---
pretty funny stuff here. And yet, there is sadness in this piece...no excuse for the cruelty of what we do to make animals extinct. And no excuse for the actions and lies we come up with towards our mates.
we are worse than prime-mates.