• CONDUIT

    Trigger Warning: An All Too Familiar Story Simon’s Rock College of Bard, December 12, 1992 The blood of childbirthis clotted, collectedin large plastic bagslabeled biohazard.They are gatheredeach evening, takento the incineratorand burned.The blood of childbirthis never morethan a day old;it has its owncrematorium. The earth receivesthe blood of Gaza willingly,watering the sliding sands,the hard pack…


  • THE BARBARIAN HAS NO BEARD 胡子無髭

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  • A WEIGHTY QUESTION

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  • MOVING ON

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  • GUTEI’S ONE FINGER 倶胝堅指

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  • NO I WILL NOT

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  • STOP THIEF

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  • ON HER TERMS

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  • KYOGEN’S “MAN UP IN A TREE” 五 香嚴上樹

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  • IGNORANT THOUGHTS

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