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You who wronged

You who wronged a simple man
Bursting into laughter at the crime
And kept a pack of fools around you
To mix good and evil, to blur the line,
Though everyone bowed down before you,
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold meddals in your honour,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill […]

My first class of the semester was Slavic studies 307: Literature and Film in Eastern Europe. The class started out with heavy material and I do not think it will get any lighter. Our focus is on Polish literature and film, with the holocaust as a main theme. Today we watched one film and […]

only so much space

i often think about the things that i have stored in my brain. some things are useless factoids, some are emotionally charged memories, some are reminders of the myriad of exhausting hours that i must spend memorizing more information so that i might prove myself worthy on yet another examination.
do you ever wish that […]