if a body catch a body coming through the rye

Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last one
standing. “Tell everyone everything” is
not exactly right, but I do believe that if
your mother looks radiant in violet
you should tell her, or when a juvenile
sparrow thrashes its wings in dustpiles
and reminds you of a lover’s eyelashes,
you should say so. We are islands all of us,
but we are also boats, our secrets flares,
pyrotechnic devices by which we signal
there’s someone in here we’re still alive!
So maybe it’s, “don’t be afraid.” We can
rewrite Icarus, flame-resistant feathers,
wax that won’t melt, I mean it, I’ll draw up
a prototype right now, that burning ball
of orange won’t stop us, it’ll be everything
we dream the morning after, even if we fall
into the sea—we are boats, remember?
We are pirates. We move in nautical miles.
Each other’s anchors, each other’s buoys,
the rocket’s red, already the world entire.




-Ilse Bendorf, Catch a Body

if a body catch a body coming through the rye

Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last one
standing. “Tell everyone everything” is
not exactly right, but I do believe that if
your mother looks radiant in violet
you should tell her, or when a juvenile
sparrow thrashes its wings in dustpiles
and reminds you of a lover’s eyelashes,
you should say so. We are islands all of us,
but we are also boats, our secrets flares,
pyrotechnic devices by which we signal
there’s someone in here we’re still alive!
So maybe it’s, “don’t be afraid.” We can
rewrite Icarus, flame-resistant feathers,
wax that won’t melt, I mean it, I’ll draw up
a prototype right now, that burning ball
of orange won’t stop us, it’ll be everything
we dream the morning after, even if we fall
into the sea—we are boats, remember?
We are pirates. We move in nautical miles.
Each other’s anchors, each other’s buoys,
the rocket’s red, already the world entire.




-Ilse Bendorf, Catch a Body

BAKIT GANYAN.

Why is it that when I turned on my TV at 9:30 p.m. the first half was ending, we were two goals up, thanks to Diaby and Eboue, and JENS LEHMANN WAS IN GOAL. And now the replays of the goals are coming up and why do I get my time zones wrong when WE'RE PLAYING GAMES LIKE THIS.

Bakit ganito, anong klaseng buhay 'to, we know the drill. Don't fall apart now, Arsenal.

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ETA: 1-2 na, Blackpool I love your crowd you are so orange and so noisy, oh my gulay Arsenal ayus-ayusin nyo nga mga buhay ninyo.

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ETA the second: 1-3 THANK YOU ARSENAL THANK YOU. Thank you game for being exciting, thank you crowd for being awesome, thank you Arsenalkids. Seven points. Wecandothis.

BAKIT GANYAN.

Why is it that when I turned on my TV at 9:30 p.m. the first half was ending, we were two goals up, thanks to Diaby and Eboue, and JENS LEHMANN WAS IN GOAL. And now the replays of the goals are coming up and why do I get my time zones wrong when WE'RE PLAYING GAMES LIKE THIS.

Bakit ganito, anong klaseng buhay 'to, we know the drill. Don't fall apart now, Arsenal.

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ETA: 1-2 na, Blackpool I love your crowd you are so orange and so noisy, oh my gulay Arsenal ayus-ayusin nyo nga mga buhay ninyo.

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ETA the second: 1-3 THANK YOU ARSENAL THANK YOU. Thank you game for being exciting, thank you crowd for being awesome, thank you Arsenalkids. Seven points. Wecandothis.