Simone. 26, male, Italian.
Totally self-absorbed, and yet totally unselfish. Full of joy, empty of worries.
Likes music, art, quotes, poetry, the net, and photography.
Contributes to Black and White, The Final Sentence, and the Lit tag.
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Totally self-absorbed, and yet totally unselfish. Full of joy, empty of worries.
Likes music, art, quotes, poetry, the net, and photography.
Contributes to Black and White, The Final Sentence, and the Lit tag.
Mail / Last.fm / Goodreads / Ask
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Toys in a Field
Using the gun mounts
for monkey bars,
children skin the cat,
pulling themselves through,
suspended in doorways
of abandoned helicopters
in graveyards. With arms
spread-eagled they imitate
vultures landing in fields.
Their play is silent
as distant rain,
the volume turned down
on the 6 o’clock news,
except for the boy
with American eyes
who keeps singing
rat-a-tat-tat, hugging
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"One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted. To them, the world is wonderfully new and surprising. Not only that, but they aren’t yet sure how the world works: Perhaps the things they have today will mysteriously vanish tomorrow. It is hard for them to take something for granted when they can’t even count on its continued existence."
William B. Irvine | A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
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Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash.
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Untitled (Payton 3) by Gottfried Helnwein
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sorrow song
for the eyes of the children,
the last to melt,
the last to vaporize,
for the lingering
eyes of the children, staring,
the eyes of the children of
buchenwald,
of viet nam and johannesburg,
for the eyes of the children
of nagasaki,
for the eyes of the children
of middle passage,
for cherokee eyes, ethiopian eyes,
russian eyes, american eyes,
for all that remains of the children,
their eyes,
staring at us, amazed to see
the extraordinary evil in
ordinary men.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
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