tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75009302986634087642024-03-05T16:00:04.170-08:00Short Stories & Poems by José LourençoJose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-79707502000766819662020-05-12T16:26:00.002-07:002020-05-12T16:29:20.590-07:00Pompeii<div><b>Pompeii</b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Nature is wasteful</div><div>said the Roman</div><div>If Man were not to paint </div><div>her sunsets in glorious reds</div><div>and purples</div><div>and her mountains in splendid green</div><div>no one would remember </div><div>these wondrous evenings</div><div><br /></div><div>Yet the Earth, when it</div><div>blew its top a moment later,</div><div>entombed him in volcanic love</div><div>so that Men may centuries later</div><div>marvel at his body still</div><div>standing sprawled</div><div>across the painted wall,</div><div>shielding a bloody sun.</div>Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-40212938906488564302020-05-12T16:18:00.005-07:002020-05-12T16:32:16.236-07:00New Year Days<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><b> New Year Days</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Why do you look at me </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">as I rise from the sea</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">for the first time this year?</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">I will rise from the sea </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">tomorrow and </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">the day after too</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Look at the first drops of rain</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">now that’s something</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">that will give you food</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">You don’t look when</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">the pale yellow flower</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">blooms for the first time</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Or when the blue capped rock thrush</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">appears on the top</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">of your chikoo tree and sings</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The cracks of turtle eggs are also</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">soft fireworks on the beach </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">the start of their new year</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Salmon mothers on the gravel bed</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">with a suitcase of spawn</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">ready to die again</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">I sink I rise</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">I sink I rise</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">no big deal</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">But these are magical days</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">new year moments of beauty</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">annual children of time.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><font face="calibri"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p>Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-39327867604489328512020-03-25T06:54:00.000-07:002020-03-31T04:12:50.853-07:00Do Protests Work?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-align: center; text-indent: 33.0000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By José Lourenço</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">An email pops up in your Inbox, saying the whales of Timbuktu are in great danger of extinction. You can join the mass protest at so-and-so website by signing the petition to ban whaling. Oh, how terrible, you think, and sign the petition right away. And then you lean back, feeling a slight flush of pride at having done your bit to save the world. A few days later there are some more petitions shared on Facebook, so you sign them too. Just a click of the mouse button, and you can lean back again, proud of your activism.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But have you really done anything real and effective? Or are you indulging in </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">slactivism</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">? Aye, that’s actually a word in the Oxford dictionary, of early 21st-century origin, from a blend of slacker and activism. Slactivism means “Actions performed via the Internet in support of a political or social cause but regarded as requiring little time or involvement, e.g. signing an online petition or joining a campaign group on a social media website”. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Wikipedia defines slacktivism as “…the act of showing support for a cause but only truly being beneficial to the egos of people participating in this so-called activism. The acts tend to require minimal personal effort from the slacktivist. The underlying assumption being promoted by the term is that these low-cost efforts substitute for more substantive actions rather than supplementing them, although this assumption has not been borne out by research.” Another term, ‘clictivism’, also has a similar meaning.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The petition website ‘Change.org’ claims that so-and-so was saved from execution, and some offensive ad was removed, and someone else was released from prison, how sure are we that signing those petitions really had an impact on the action taken? Are armchair slactivism and clictivism just an ego-pampering feel-good waste of time?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the last fortnight, scores of Indian writers returned their awards to the Sahitya Akademi, protesting the silence of India’s top cultural institution on the murder of MM Kalburgi, an award-winning rationalist and writer. The writers’ protests were also aimed at the violent incidents that have recently occurred around the country, indicative of a spreading intolerance. These award-returning protests also provoked counter-charges and some mockery from rightwing supporters. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But the question is: What impact do these protests really have? The writers’ ire was targeted at the Sahitya Akademi leadership, while the central government which is responsible for security in the country watched from the wings. It seems to be a herculean as well as nebulous task to protest against and to cut down religious and cultural intolerance in such a large and populous country, where such incidents are now popping up sporadically every day as can be seen in the daily news?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Do protests work? A candlelight vigil is a protest. So is a nationwide strike. Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violent satyagraha was also a massive protest. When goals are clearcut and tangible, protests invariably work. In Goa, in the 1970s the PSU (Progressive Students Union) carried out violent protests demanding a reduction in student bus fares. They achieved that goal. In 1986 a bloody agitation demanding that Konkani be declared the official state language of Goa halted only when the Goa, Daman and Diu Official Language bill was presented to the legislative assembly. The protest resisting the Thapar – DuPont Nylon 6-6 plant being set up in Keri claimed the life of young activist Nilesh Naik, but succeeded in its aim. Mahatma Gandhi led protests in India for many years and eventually drove the British colonial rulers from India. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Though many may pour scorn on ‘slactivists’, there can be no denying that such petitions bring about an awareness of atrocities that we would otherwise be unaware of. Education and awareness can spur outrage, which could well turn a Slactivist into a dynamic warrior.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were ruthlessly crushed. The so-called Arab Spring produced dubious results. Protests in authoritarian states like Saudi Arabia and North Korea simply don’t stand a chance, at least for now. But India has a glorious tradition of successful protesting. In 1915 Rabindranath Tagore was conferred a knighthood by the British government in India, he renounced it after the gruesome Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919. For any artiste, the returning of an award is a powerful emotional statement, expressing great anguish and solidarity with the aggrieved people. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The spectre of violent intolerance in India may seem to be a nebulous and multi-headed monster that cannot be vanquished. But there is a button that can protest and defeat such an enemy. It’s actually a vertical row of buttons, of which you have to choose one, every five years, at election time. The act of pressing an ECM button to choose an electoral candidate may seem a simple physical act. But this is no slactivism. Years of news reports, discussions, angst-filled thinking and finally a righteous decision lie behind that click of a button. This is no clictivism. It is Protest, with a capital P, and it can humble the most gigantic politician, his party and his propaganda, and banish them to obscurity. In India, all those signed petitions, writers’ protests, candlelit marches and courted arrests and bloodied heads invariably conclude in that single finale, that simple button of protest. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(First published in <a href="https://goastreets.com/do-protests-work/">Goa Streets weekly</a> on 30 Oct 2015.)<br />
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<i><span style="text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">This story by Shenoi Goembab was written around 1945. It was republished in the Konkani Short Story collection published by Sahitya Akademi in 1985 and edited by Chandrakant Keni. In his preface to this anthology, Laxmanrao Sardesai says that 'Mhoji Ba Khoim Geli' can be considered the first modern short story in Konkani literature. Although it was first published alongside other stories that were more like 'kanneo' or folk tales, this story follows the structure of modern storytelling.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 24pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">In the first fortnight of the month of Magh, Babulo crossed five years of age and entered his sixth. He was a little boy, no doubt. But very naughty, very mischievous. And quite unruly. He had just started his holidays and was turning the whole house upside down with his romping and his boisterous antics. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">In Shapshenoi<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s house, after many many years of weary-eyed prayers and vows and fretful care, like a ginger shoot sprouting on a dry plateau, a male child was born. When the midwife first informed Shenoi of the birth of his grandchild and asked for a token gift, it is said he blushed and flushed and was full of glee. Saying </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">take this gift</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">he promptly took off a newly worn embroidered sash from around his shoulder and gave it to the midwife. Besides that, he took a silver coin, full as a piece of coconut kernel, and placed it on her hand. Joyful at the birth of his grandson, he ordered a lot of fireworks and distributed sugar all over the marketplace. The sottvi, the fifth day of the child</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s birth was celebrated with much fanfare. Words cannot describe the din of the gumats, madhallim and shimells that rent the air all night. As for fish, basketfuls lay around for the taking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24pt;">Shapshenoi and Umabai were simply out of this world, overjoyed with the birth of a grandchild. Enchanted by Babulo, they cared not for food or water. Babulo here, there and everywhere! They could think of nothing other than anticipating every little need of Babulo. If Honibai sometimes went to her mother</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24pt;">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 24pt;">s house taking Babulo along, they would send summons upon summons to her and could not rest until they finally had her back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Just as Babulo entered his sixth year, Honibai fell seriously ill. According to the doctor, she had contracted pneumonia; and she passed away. That the mother of a young, growing boy should suddenly die, what an immense tragedy! When she was confined to bed, young Babulo who had been nurtured with such affection turned subdued. His mischief subsided. His pranks ceased. His rowdiness, his merrymaking, his monkeying around all simply vanished. He fell into deep contemplation looking melancholy and troubled like a grey-haired man of advanced years.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">When his stricken mother began babbling deliriously, his grandfather and grandmother feared that the sight would frighten Babulo and they prevented him from going near her room. Even so, he would sometimes evade them and go to her door and call out softly <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ba, ba </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">…”</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">She eventually passed away in the wee hours of one night. At that time, Babulo was blissfully asleep on his grandmother<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s cot. Fearing that he would wake amid the clamour and commotion, his grandmother stealthily carried him away to sleep in another room and until morning dawned and the corpse was taken away, she did not allow him even the slightest clue of what had happened. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">The loss of such a virtuous daughter-in-law as Honibai brought tears to the eyes of her mother-in-law and father-in-law. But dreading that Babulo might come to know of his mother<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s death, they suppressed their heartbroken grief. His grandmother tried her best to stop him from going near his mother</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s room. But again he escaped her eye and got there, but to his surprise, his mother was nowhere in sight. Her cot was not to be seen. Even her blanket had vanished. Nothing. The room ached with a yawning emptiness. He was confused and called out to his grandparents </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Where has my Ba gone? </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">At that moment Umabai, no longer able to control her sobs, hugged him close and wept- <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My darling, your mother went to God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s house in the night, O my prince!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Babulo did not understand the meaning of these words. He said- <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The way Uncle</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s dolli comes, I did not see God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s dolli come. In what did she sit and go? And how did she go alone? Why did she not take me along?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">On hearing these words the hearts of his grandparents and other family members were filled with great sorrow. The tears that they all had held back for so long burst forth and there was a great wailing in the house. This confused Babulo even more. Seeing the others cry, he too began to weep. His grandmother squeezed him tightly to her chest and moaned <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tut..tut..touch wood! You shouldn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t say that, my darling. You are the shining light of our world. May you live many years like the banyan tree and may your tribe increase!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Babulo was utterly bewildered. He kept wandering around and returning to his mother<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s room, wondering where she had gone and what had befallen her. And when the twelfth day came and they collected her saree, blouse piece, and copper pot to hand over to the Savaishin Brahmins for rituals in her name, he howled and cried- </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Aaji, when Ba comes back from God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s place, won</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t she need clothes to wear? And won</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t she need her pot to drink water?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">On hearing these words tears ran down the cheeks of his grandmother, the Savaishin Brahmins and all those around. Babulo was amazed at this. Every time he spoke of his mother, his grandmother and others around would start to cry. He simply could not comprehend this. When his Ba would take him to her mother<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s house, no one would cry and now, because she had gone to God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s house everyone was crying endlessly. It just made no sense at all.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">After the twelfth day, Babulo anxiously awaited his mother<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s return from God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s house. If he saw any palanquin in the marketplace, he would run and check on it, absolutely certain that his mother had come seated in it and would then return home, greatly disappointed.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Finally when three months had passed, one day he asked his grandmother <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Aaji, why aren</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t you sending a dolli to bring Ba back? It</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s been so many days since she</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s gone.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">His grandmother dabbed her eyes with her saree and said <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Let that matter be, child. Why don</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t you go and play with Mannku?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">After his mother<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s death, Babulo had ceased all his playing. He was wholly beset with fretting for his mother. He said </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Aaji, I don</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t feel like playing. I feel like seeing my Ba.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">To this his grandmother exclaimed in exasperation <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">–‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Son, maybe one fine day I myself should sit in the dolli and go fetch her! Day by day I too am growing weary of this world.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">‘<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If you go then who will be with me!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">said Babulo. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">You don</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t go, aaji. It is enough to send Ragulo and Sakulo with the dolli. They will bring Ba back.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Umabai did not know how to reply to this. She tried to distract Babulo<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s mind. But it was no use. He began to pursue her in earnest, pleading for a palanquin to be sent for his mother.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">So finally his grandmother braced herself and with a parched voice said -<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Babulea, those who go to God do not come back, my darling.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">”</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">‘<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then why did you allow my Ba to go there? Why did you not send God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s dolli back? If you had told this to me first, I would have closed the door of her room and not let her move out. I would have hung on tightly to her legs.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">”</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">On hearing these words, his grandmother began sobbing like a little child. Then Babulo said to her <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Aaji, these days why do you cry so much at every word I say? Now tell me really, Ba will never come back? I will not have my Ba anymore? What is this kind of work that she has gone to God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s place for?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Umabai could not make him understand. She wiped her tears and said <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My precious one, now let those things be</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">…” </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Whereupon Babulo stubbornly said </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">No! No! I want my Ba. I am going to God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s room right now and I am going to ask him why he took my Ba and where he has kept her. That</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s the same God in the puja room, right?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Babulo walked swiftly to the worship room and as his elders had taught him he struck both his cheeks and prostrated himself before the deity. By that time his grandmother had hurried after him to see what he was up to and she stood just outside the worship room.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Babulo rose to his feet. With a stern finger to his nose and a menacing look on his face he addressed the deity <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">O Lord God, it</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s been many days since you took my Ba. Why did you take her? And how did you take her without informing me? Didn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t you know that I want her? You couldn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t find anyone else to take? Today evening, you place her back in her room where she was sleeping! Or else, tomorrow morning I will show you. I will tell aajo not to perform your puja. No puris for you. No bath. No food. No flower petals. No lamp, no candles, no tender coconut! Not even a piece of jaggery. Nor a pinch of sugar. Nothing. Absolutely nothing! I will make them starve you completely!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">Seeing her grandson fighting with God, Umabai was filled with wonder for a moment and felt like crying at the same time. She left quietly without his knowing of her presence. Then, having threatened God, and confident that He would not rest until He had restored Ba to her room, Babulo spent the rest of the day joyfully. Night fell soon and he slept soundly. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">As soon as dawn broke the next day, in eager anticipation of seeing his Ba, he made haste to her room. When he got there, there wasn<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t even a fly in sight! He was greatly discouraged and flashed with rage. He went to his grandmother and told her </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">What kind of a God is that? I scolded him so much yesterday, but he doesn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t even care. If he had even a little shame, wouldn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t he have brought my Ba back here? Now what should I do, aaji! That God is not listening. I just </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">want</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"> my mother.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">He began to stomp his feet and wailed desperately- <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">O my Ba! O my Ba!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then his grandmother took him close and said </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Don</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t do this madness, my child, those who go to God</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s house do not come back, my love.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Babulo retorted </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">But shouldn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t God have told me that? Yesterday when I yelled at him so much, what was there for him to just say-</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">You will not get your Ba</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">? Why did he just keep quiet?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">‘<span style="font-family: "calibri";">God doesn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t speak to human beings, my darling</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">answered his grandmother.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">‘<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If he doesn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t speak to them, then for what kind of work does he take them to him? That means he doesn</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">t speak to my Ba either?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">His grandmother was at her wit's end. He finally declared <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">– ‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">God may speak or not speak, but I want my Ba. God will not get her. If she does not come to me, I will go to her.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">With this, Babulo began to pine for his mother. He stopped having his meals. He stopped eating altogether. He just abandoned everything. He became as thin as a coconut leaf rib and fell bedridden. And at the end, crying <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ba, O my Ba</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">…’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">his soul fled this earth.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">On hearing of Babulo<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s sad tale, whose heart would not be moved! And whose eyes would not be filled with tears! </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">If she does not come to me, I will go to her</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">, what resolute words these were! We have to say that Babulo made them come true in the end. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Yhe yhe vapi smarnbhava tyajatyante kalevarama! Te tamevaiti kavanteya sada tadhabhavbhvit</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;">:<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">As the sloka says - </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">‘</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">he who rises every day and dwells absolutely on the same vision and finally abandons his mortal coil in that quest, he alone achieves oneness with it</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">’ – </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">did not Lord Krishna once say this to Arjuna? With faith in this, our little Babulo went to where his beloved Ba dwelt and now sits happily at her side, of that there is surely no doubt. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik stood at the door of the puja room and gazed at the incense-filled interior with disgust. It wasn’t the deity that vexed him, nor the steel tray that held the oil, turmeric and other items of his daily devotion. It was just that the whole space now sickened him. The agreeable perfume of the agarbatti sticks wafted to him as it usually did, and yet this morning he pinched his nose tightly. And another orifice, other than his nose, greatly troubled him.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">It had all started with Shenoi-mam’s visit to the house. Shenoi was a friend of Umesh, Pundalik’s office peon. Umesh may have been just a peon, but being about twenty years older to Pundalik, he insisted on advising him on everything under the sun.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Shenoi-mam is an expert on Vastu-shastra,’ beamed Umesh. ‘He checked my house and said everything is fine. So I brought him to check your house. You don’t have to pay him, </span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10pt;">anh</span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">, it’s my gift to you.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik had nodded nonchalantly, as he did to all of Umesh’s advice. He had heard of Vastu-shastra, the science of planning rooms and spaces and stuff. But that was of use only to architects building new houses, not to him. This house had been built by his father, who had surely done whatever had to be done. Inheriting the house had saved him the cost of building a new house, Pundalik mused. God bless Baba’s soul.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Hey, Prashanti,’ he called out to his wife. ‘Just clean up the rooms, okay, Shenoi-mam wants to see the house.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Prashanti dutifully put the house in order and excused herself to go to the market. Pundalik led Shenoi-mam and Umesh through the house, not without some pride. The vastu expert strolled through the dining area and the kitchen with his hands behind his bent back, nodding like a bird whenever he entered a door. He also made sharp sniffing sounds – </span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10pt;">‘knff knff’ </span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">– when he peered at the corners of the kitchen, as though his nose was a sensing tool to detect bad vastu. An occasional scratch of his bald head also seemed to be part of his investigatory technique.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">When he walked into their bedroom and surveyed the windows and the orientation of the bed, Pundalik too looked at the sheets, hoping there were no stains visible.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">As Shenoi-mam approached the puja room he stopped and shook his head. ‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10pt;">Knff, knff!’</span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"> he snorted in dismay.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘What is the problem?’ asked Pundalik.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘This is your puja room?’ Shenoi-mam asked with a frown on his face. ‘The toilet should be here.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik stared at him in stunned silence. Umesh had also heard the shocking pronouncement and came forward, nudging Pundalik aside, as though to take charge of the situation.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘And where should the puja room actually be?’ queried Umesh.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Shenoi-mam scurried across to the kitchen, clucking and sniffing. His radar seemed to direct him to the narrow passage between the two bedrooms and he stopped at the little door at the end of this corridor.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Here! The puja room should be here.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘But that’s the toilet!’ exclaimed Umesh. Pundalik had followed the vastu man across the passage with panic in his heart and now he was simply speechless with horror.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10pt;">Shee, shee</span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">, what have you people done! You are making dirty in the place of worship and praying in the toilet?’ Shenoi-mam shook his head with finality and went back to the living room.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘What can be done about this now?’ asked Umesh, looking at his devastated office colleague with great sympathy and a ‘thank-God-I-brought-Shenoi-mam-to-check-this’ look.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘God must be given his rightful place,’ insisted the expert. ‘Do you have children?’ he asked. When Pundalik shook his head, Shenoi nodded, having thus easily proved God’s displeasure.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘You have to change their places,’ he said, and then leaned forward with a look of compassion. ‘Or else you have to do a yagna to please God to allow this reversal. It will cost fifty thousand rupees. It is costly because, you see, God has to be convinced to move to the new place.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Shenoi-mam, pardon for asking,’ said Pundalik in a tremulous voice. ‘But where is God now? In the toilet or in the puja room?’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘You have to ask this?’ rebuked the vastu guru. ‘He is in your toilet, I told you. That is his holy space, which you are fouling every morning.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"> ‘Don’t worry, don’t worry,’ assured Umesh, looking at Pundalik’s crestfallen face. ‘We will do something to correct it, Pundalik-bab, I will get Mariano the contractor to quote for the changes and the repair work.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Mariano the contractor squeezed his bulk through the toilet door and turned on the tap. He peered at its running stream and shut it off. Then he yanked at the flush knob and carefully listened to the gurgling sound of water.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘There’s nothing wrong with the toilet,’ he declared to a worried Pundalik. ‘Why you want to change it?’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik explained his predicament to Mariano, without mentioning what Shenoi-mam’s remedy would cost. Hopefully the contractor’s switching work would cost less.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Mariano shook his head with a baffled look. Then his brow cleared and he took on a wise demeanour.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘</span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10pt;">Arre</span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">, Pundalik baba, God is everywhere. That is what they told us in our catechism class at church, when we were small.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">He sat heavily on the toilet seat which creaked under his weight.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘God is in this toilet, yes, but he is also in your puja room.’ He casually squeezed the handle of the new jet spray that Pundalik had recently installed and directed the stream of water at his bare calloused feet.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘He is everywhere,’ he declared again. ‘He is inside you and me. He is in our heart,’ he rose to his feet with an effort and leaned towards Pundalik with a conspiratorial smile. ‘And have you realised, Pundalik baba, he is even in our arse!’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik flinched at this sacrilege and shook his head. ‘How much will it cost to make this a puja room and shift the toilet there?’ he asked.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Mariano scratched his head and rolled his eyes upwards as he did the math.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Sixty-five thousand rupees,’ he said. ‘What about the kitchen, did the vastu fellow tell you to change the kitchen platform? That will be another twenty thousand.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Mariano had come to the house six days ago, when Prashanti was away at her mother’s house, so she did not suspect anything. She simply mustn’t know, Pundalik had decided. At least he could go to the office toilet to relieve himself, which is what he had been doing for the last five days. He had simply not been able to ‘make dirty’ the rightful place of God in his house. And what was worse, he had not been able to pray at the puja room either.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">He pinched his nose at the smell he perceived coming from the puja room and turned away. God could wait. He was not going to pray in the wrong place. If Prashanti came to know, she would have to go back to her mother’s house. Where would she go for toilet? To the neighbour’s house? What reason would she give them?</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">It was not easy even for Pundalik to shift to the office toilet. He went to the office half an hour earlier, so that no one would see him. He sensed that Umesh knew. The peon would look at him with great pity, as though understanding his plight. Pundalik missed the early morning bidi that he would enjoy in his home toilet. The thought of the hundreds of people who must be also using the office toilet revolted him. So though it was a European style waste closet, he would clamber up and perch his sandalled feet on either side of the toilet seat, so that no part of him touched the commode.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">He also missed his jet spray, which he had gotten quite used to of late. That gentle massage, that warm water stream … by contrast, the cold water of the office toilet always made him jump with shock.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Mariano has quoted sixty-five thousand,’ he informed Umesh. ‘That’s more expensive than Shenoi-mam’s puja. Can we ask some other Vastu fellow for his opinion? Like how we ask doctors?’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">A few months back, when Pundalik had great pains while passing water, he had consulted six doctors, one after the other. Each of them had told him he had a kidney stone. Each had quoted around thirty thousand rupees to remove it by putting a tube inside him and breaking the stone. Eventually, after drinking several gallons of water, the stone had popped out by itself and the pain subsided. The bill of the six doctors had come to two thousand rupees only, so he had clearly saved a lot of money.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Yes, why not,’ agreed Umesh. ‘Tomorrow I will get another Vastu expert from the market or the temple.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Yes, there is a problem,’ said the plump young Hindu priest from the local temple, who doubled up as a Vastu expert. He had asked for his fees in advance, a princely one thousand rupees. Pundalik winced as he paid, inwardly cursing Umesh and Shenoi-mama, who had gifted him this wretched problem for free, in the first place.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">The vastu-expert-cum-priest had walked briskly through the house, pausing a while in Pundalik’s bedroom to gaze at the bed. He also strolled around the house, looking at the trees. He gazed into the well, looked at his reflection and instinctively brushed his wavy hair with his hand.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘But, you see, the plot is sloping in the forward direction, and there is a peepal tree in the eastern corner and a banyan tree in the northern corner. So all this neutralises the problem of the toilet and the puja room.’ The young man finished his diagnosis with clinical efficiency.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘I have to go,’ he excused himself. ‘A builder has called me to decide if the paddy field where he is putting up a building is cursed or not. I hope God gives him the blessing of the petals today.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘But, bhat-ji, where is God in my house now?’ Pundalik asked anxiously.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">The young man looked at the house up and down for a moment. ‘God is somewhere between the toilet and the puja room,’ he said, and left.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik was not satisfied. He paced up and down between the peepal tree and the banyan tree every evening now. He thanked his father for having planted the right trees in the right places, but having a God who was neither here nor there was not good. He envied Mariano, whose God was everywhere, even oozing out of all his orifices. Pundalik did not believe in that. God had a place. Otherwise why would they call him </span><i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10pt;">Zagyavoilo Dev</span></i><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">, the God of the Place? Lord, give me a sign, tell me where you are, moaned Pundalik. Are you in the puja room or in the toilet, just let me know somehow!</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">He worried about Prashanti, sinning every day, without knowing it. Perhaps this was indeed why they could not have children. Lord, forgive us, he murmured, as he raised his eyes upwards. The sky was clear, which reminded him to call Chari the carpenter to do the annual removing and refitting of the roof tiles of the house. They were still the old-style country tiles that his father had fitted. Other houses had switched to Mangalore tiles long back. But Pundalik had calculated that he could save money by maintaining these country tiles instead of buying new Mangalore tiles, just as he had saved money when treating his kidney stone.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">It was on the morning of the ninth day, that it happened. Pundalik was standing at the door of his puja room, which was lit by a surreal light through the partly opened roof. He was struggling to say some token prayers with a pinched nose as of late, when there was a loud crash in front of him. He jumped in alarm and instinctively ducked out of the way. After the noise had subsided he peeped into the puja room. A coconut from an overhanging tree had fallen through the open roof and, narrowly missing the idols of the deities, had come to rest in a corner.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik picked up the coconut and stared at it. How did this coconut fall here, he wondered. That tree had been leaning over this part of the house for years now, but the plucker had always skilfully taken off the nuts well in time, to avoid them falling on the roof. He made a mental note to rebuke the plucker.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Then he looked closer at the coconut. Was it his imagination, or was that the familiar trunk of Lord Ganapati? O Lord Ganesha, remover of obstacles! It was usually during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival that the local newspapers would report of some villager finding a coconut or brinjal or papaya, or even a tomato that was coincidentally shaped like Lord Ganesha’s elephant head, with a prominent trunk-like protuberance in the said fruit or vegetable. And this fallen coconut clearly resembled Ganesha’s head! Why had it fallen at this time of the year? What did this mean?</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Just then he heard Prashanti cursing loudly in the kitchen. He went running to her.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘What happened?’ he asked her.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Stupid crow! I was sitting in the toilet and some damned bird’s shit fell on my head, through those open roof tiles.’ She wiped the bird droppings from her hair with a wet towel, swearing all the time.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘Don’t worry,’ said Pundalik, secretly upset that his wife had been cursing in the toilet. ‘It’s a good sign. Don’t they say, if a crow shits on your head, you will get some good money one of these days?’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Good sign! Suddenly it all dawned upon Pundalik. This was it! God had dropped a blessed coconut nearly on his head in his puja room. And he had sent a bird to relieve itself on his wife in the toilet. That meant that everything was exactly as God wanted it!</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">‘God is in the puja room,’ he gave the good news to Umesh at the office three days later, a Sunday and two public holidays having come in between. ‘And the crow shit also brought us something good.’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Pundalik blushed slightly as he gave the even better news to his peon and adviser. ‘Prashanti says it has been four days since she missed her … you know…’</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;">Umesh broke into a broad smile, as though he was the grandfather to be, and hugged Pundalik.</span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype"; font-size: 10.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Love proverbs? Why not browse through a proverb every day and nod your head profoundly, or just have a good laugh? The 'Wit & Wisdom of Ancient Goa' Desk Calendar brings you 366 Konkani proverbs, compiled by Jos<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">é</span> Louren<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ç</span>o of Amazing Goa Publications and richly illustrated by Goa's illustrious cartoonist Mário de Miranda.<br />
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The proverbs of Konkani culture bear witness to a simpler
time when morality and ethics were taught through metaphors found in Nature –
the animals, birds, flowers, fruits, hills and rivers of a bountiful Goa. <br />
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The quirks and follies of Man are tersely expressed with
biting wit and even the passage of kings and nations through our tiny but
significant land of Goa are inscribed in our aphorisms forever.<br />
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In this desk calendar, the satirical wit and profundity of
366 Konkani proverbs stand alongside the illustrations of the most iconic and
celebrated Goan cartoonist, Mário de Miranda. The proverbs and cartoons will
ensure you start your day with a smile, sometimes a hearty laugh, and a gem of
ancient Goan wisdom.</div>
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Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-79704052255473955452014-05-13T08:13:00.002-07:002015-04-19T10:57:25.164-07:00Published in ...<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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– Parmal. Ed.Prava Rai. Goa Heritage Action Group. Oct 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– The Shrinking Woman. Anthology of Unisun Publications. 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– Umalle magazine. Ed. Marcos Gonsalves. Aug-Sep 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– See Goa magazine. Oct 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– (Nach) – Jaag, ed.Madhavi Sardesai. March-May 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi journal), ed. Yasodhara Mishra. Jan-Feb
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– Sunaparant – Chaturthi issue 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– Only Men Please. Anthology of Unisun Publications. 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– Inside Out. Anthology by Goa Writers & Goa 1556. 2011<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Short film – dir. Sarat Rao, prod. Hornbill Productions, Margao. 2014.</span></div>
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– Himal Southasian. Dec 2010.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-69328724306947355482014-03-03T06:04:00.003-08:002014-03-03T06:05:14.065-08:00Approximately<br />
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Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-13872885371801057812013-10-20T10:28:00.002-07:002013-10-20T10:28:57.440-07:00Tree of Thought<br />
Tree of Thought<br />
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What of the many-petalled flower<br />
that hangs on the tree of thought<br />
with title on calyx and glowing corolla?<br />
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Thousands can bloom and millions too<br />
and, Handmaid, even one may grow<br />
with dancing pictures and crazy song<br />
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How they are burned in jealous rage<br />
their ashen scent boiling the blood of saints<br />
and bringing tyrants to their knees<br />
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these many-petalled flowers<br />
that hang on the tree of thought.<br />
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<br />Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-18741402587067740252013-04-02T09:14:00.005-07:002013-04-02T10:10:02.389-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #222222;">who has seen the wind</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">neither you nor i</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">but when the trees bow down their heads</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">the wind is passing by</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">who has seen anything for that matter</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">if i did i would have told you</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">and you would have wanted to see it too</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">and then how would i have shown it to you</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">how do you show anything to anyone</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">anyone can ask what is anything</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">is it anything to you</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">and you say it is</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">everything to me</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">i say nothing</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">is nothing anything to you</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">is everything nothing to you</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">but what about the wind</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">what about the wind</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">nothing</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">i smoked so much</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">nothing</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">nothing</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">waiting for the sunrise</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">wind nothing</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">everything sunrise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the subsequent<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">absence</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of my presence<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>around you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and let out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a sigh,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the sense of that sigh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and for the love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thereof,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would like to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thank you.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and he<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and he, he and he.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am we<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and she<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and she, she and she.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And even though the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">grammar here is debatable,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am me..<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black;">kyrie </span></b></span><b><span style="color: black;">eleison </span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: black;">kyrie </span></i></span><i><span style="color: black;">eleison <span class="apple-converted-space">kyrie </span>eleison<br />
christe eleison christe eleison<br />
<span class="apple-converted-space">kyrie </span>eleison. <span class="apple-converted-space">kyrie </span>eleison. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">linette, come to say rosary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">coming mama<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">christe audi nos christe exaudi
nos<br />
pater de caelis deus, miserere nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lurdin, zonel bond kor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">vavzoddi bhitor ieta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<i>fili redemptor mundi deus, miserere nobis.<br />
spiritus sancte deus, miserere nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">sancta trinitas unus deus,
miserere nobis.<br />
</span></i><span style="color: black;"><br />
<i>santa maria, ora pro nobis.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>santa dei genitrix, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>sancta virgo virginum, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">mater christi, ora pro
nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">eddie, say softly<br />
<i>mater divinae gratiae, ora pro nobis.<br />
mater purissima, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">linette, annie, say loudly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<i>mater castissima, ora pro nobis.<br />
mater inviolata, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">miaow miaow miaaaaowwww<br />
<i>mater intemerata, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">shhhhhh…out bulu out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lurdin, mazrak bhair ghall!<br />
<i>mater amabilis, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"><br />
mater admirabilis, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ribbit gribbit ribbit gribbit<i><br />
mater boni consilii, ora pro nobis.<br />
mater creatoris, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gribbit…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"><br />
mater salvatoris, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">virgo prudentissima, ora pro
nobis.<br />
</span></i><span style="color: black;">sister adozinda beat me today<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">why? – i don’t know. i was talking
to criselle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">virgo praedicanda, ora pro
nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"><br />
virgo potens, ora pro nobis.<br />
</span></i><span style="color: black;">simply she beat me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">virgo clemens, ora pro
nobis.<br />
virgo fidelis, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"><br />
rosa mystica, ora pro nobis.<br />
foederis arca, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mama is saying a badword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hee hee hee<br />
<i>janua caeli, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sssshhhh linette quiet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
<i>stella matutina, ora pro nobis.<br />
salus infirmorum, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">você fechou a porta, wilfredo?<br />
sim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">refugium
peccatorum, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">regina angelorum, ora pro
nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mama, eddie is pinching me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ssssssshhhhhhhhh<br />
<i>regina prophetarum, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wilfredo, diga-el manter silencio
nao!<br />
linette, keep quiet – eddie stop it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">regina apostolorum, ora pro
nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">regina virginum, ora pro
nobis.<br />
regina martyrum, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">prrronnnkkk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hee hee hee avo farted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sssssshhhhhh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you heard, linette? avo made ponkk<br />
<i>regina confessorum, ora pro nobis. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"><br />
regina sanctorum omnium, ora pro nobis.<br />
regina sine labe originali concepta, ora pro nobis.<br />
regina sacratissimi rosarii, ora pro nobis. </span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lurdin, jevonn gorom kor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mez vadd, sunneak sodd<br />
<i>regina pacis, ora pro nobis.<br />
</i><br />
<i>agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: parce nobis, domine.<br />
agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: exaudi nos, domine.<br />
agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis.<br />
</i>ribbit ribb ribb ribbit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-2904300332808629302013-04-02T09:12:00.003-07:002013-04-02T10:11:27.293-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Cogito ergo sum</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cogito ergo sum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think therefore I am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vivo ergo somnium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I live therefore I dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cogito sum actum somnium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think I am I live I dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Interdum clamo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once in a while I scream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vivo ergo somnium<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I live therefore I dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Would that I live well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So that I dream well<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Par addictus subterlabor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Like a stoned escape artist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vivo tantum somniare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I only live to dream</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.</span><br />
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</span>Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-22039513849649906952013-04-02T09:11:00.005-07:002013-04-02T10:11:37.695-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Emptiness</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To fill the silent morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I tried to play a cd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But there already was a cd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Playing out loud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the middle of my meal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sitting at the table<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I felt really hungry and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wanted to eat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Later that evening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With a cigarette at my mouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I reached into the pack to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Light up another<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deep in the throes of night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With a sweating woman above me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I suddenly felt a yearning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To make love<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-19436061772382660632013-04-02T09:11:00.003-07:002013-04-02T09:11:36.069-07:00<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Emptiness</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">To fill the silent morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">I tried to play a cd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">But there already was a cd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">Playing out loud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">In the middle of my meal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">Sitting at the table<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">I felt really hungry and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">Wanted to eat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Later that evening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">With a cigarette at my mouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">I reached into the pack to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">Light up another<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">Deep in the throes of night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">With a sweating woman above me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">I suddenly felt a yearning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;">To make love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-71136924657870322322013-04-02T09:11:00.001-07:002013-04-02T10:12:12.327-07:00<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to grandfather with love</span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">i think sometimes of my grandfather</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">whose crumbling chest I still have</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the one who travelled to hong kong</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">where i am told he was imprisoned </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my aunt tia ifa was born there, yes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and sometimes i think of the one </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">long before him, who roamed the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">forests that i know now as rivona</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> yes the one who carved those bulls</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on the rocky outcrop of pansaimol</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and rarely of my grandad the ape </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">indifferently screwing his mate</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">unthinking of his grandson who</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">would be only marginally more </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">considerate in his technique</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but i think often of my grandfather </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the fish - who lay for a while </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">exhausted on the ancient bank</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> of the river sal before he resumed </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">crawling towards the trees.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-62299607676468797032013-04-02T09:09:00.002-07:002013-04-02T10:12:26.000-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Goobberish </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">fgdfgfgfjghfgh</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did you mean fgfgfgfgfg?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nancy fgfgfgfgfg is on facebook</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">view fgfgfgfgfg fgfgfgfgfg's professional profile</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on linkedin </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">xmvbxcnvbxcvb</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did you mean: xmb xcvbxcvb</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">xcvbxcvb.com xcxzzy.com xddbya.com xdhk.org</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">xdzhiwang.comxedialiving.com</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">xemdiemthitotnghiep.com </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wyqterqwyterq</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did you mean: qtweeter</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">qtweeter, a one of a kind status update application</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tweet and update your facebook status</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like never before.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it is straight to the point </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">iururiuriurur</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did you mean: ururururu</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ni arume aingi mainaga "ururururu mwana"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pipipipii[i[i[i[ii</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">about 610 results (0.35 seconds)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"pipipipii pipi-piribi-piribiii eh! eh! eh!"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">la nooxeee pipipipii cuumplee!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">feeliiciidadees piilaarr!! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">^#^&$^*#*#</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">about 25,300,000,000 results (0.39 seconds)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">standard & poor's expands u.s. rmbs recovery analytics</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">muscle & fitness: training and nutrition ... one week left to vote!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dungeons & dragons online, eberron unlimited </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(&^^(^)(^_(%&%(^(</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">about 531,000,000 results (0.28 seconds)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tex frequently asked questions -- question label "verbwithin"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">such a definition is 'naturally' robust</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sand</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a superlative is but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a semantic construct<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no greatest no least<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no angel nor beast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the mind sits on a swing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">whose forwardest point<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and backwardest <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are exactly the same <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">height above the sand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that stays perfectly still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">until disturbed by <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">another child's feet<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Shoes</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">last night I dreamed I was dead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I was wondering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">if I should keep my shoes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as usual under my bed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or bury them in the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">backyard instead<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">Ode to a Friend</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do nipples stiffen with wine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do hearts harden in time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If I said I loved you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Would your loss be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Greater than mine?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Solidified Sea<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Who are a wood, those who <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">think you that I know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">its house is natural into village.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he sees to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for here I make a wood for you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to fill attention with snow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it is necessary that my small
horse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">thinks strangely for
without, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by one itself closely a farm
between<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wood and the evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the solidified sea continues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">if you give vibration to the bells
of its thread,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it requires, it exists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">however the other sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is the closed cycle of the simple
wind <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the flaumigenflocke. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the wood is this, deeply,
darkly <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but stimulated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">have you, thereby kept the
promise?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not sleep I forward, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in transition one does not sleep
forward.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Wtf</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is death but sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everlasting and deep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no promises to keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no cause to weep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;">what is </span></span><span style="color: black;">life but<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
dream<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as lucid as cream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">frothing at the brim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of a bubbly stream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">men sleep<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
so do sheep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from clouds they leap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">onto God's own heap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that bloody creep <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-36628111038882905362013-04-02T09:05:00.003-07:002013-04-02T10:13:38.950-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>Sand</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">live not in fear of death</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> die from fear of living</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for the sands of time</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> but times of sand </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">drifting</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> from shore to shore.</span><br />
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Jose Lourencohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16734035394938669454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7500930298663408764.post-36378515540411921602013-04-02T09:04:00.002-07:002013-04-02T10:13:53.660-07:00<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b>KNOTS</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These knots in the wood of my table</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stare at me every day as though</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Trying to tell me stories of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their annular rings</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This one was a young twig</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Its mummified whorls no larger</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Than those of my thumb which seems</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To be my own knot</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That one spins like a galaxy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the lap of yet larger waves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That stretch into infinity by which</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I mean the edge of my table</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did they stand apart on breezy glade</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">These planks that lie locked below this page</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now also joined in these words</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or were they always one?</span><br />
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