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How to Dance in Ohio.

"...A precision bungling
of all thought matters..."

--The Crystal Text

Desperate But Not Serious.

"Thanks
After Yusef Komunyakaa

Thanks to my mother always, but
especially when she called for me,
for me to join them at the table,
just seconds before shrapnel
cut through the window glass
where I stood to watch distant air strikes.
My mother’s voice, the magnet of my life,
swayed my head just in time.
Plumes of smoke choked the neighborhood.
It was night and when we ran into the street,
Mother had left the cake in the oven. We smelled
the bomb smoke with the burnt chocolate
and strawberry of the cake.

And thanks to the huge clock tower’s bell
which saved my life. I was crossing the street
and my head, glued to my phone,
never heeded the honk of cars
or the wheels of vans
screeching onto the rough tarmac.
That bell tolled for me.
Sorry Death, but it was the eve of my 22nd birthday
and sorry Hemingway
to answer your title that way."

--@MosabAbuToha

New volcano drone footage. (via feuilleton)