Hollywood has released a feature film starring the scientific method. In Ridley
Scott’s The Martian, special effects take the backseat to a computer from 1996,
and hexadecimal digits and botany unexpectedly upstage
We arrive it’s Thursday the industry beckoned
to look at ripped canvases arranged amidst
old masters, to cavort amidst nudes white marble
statues Goya prints, to examine strips of color
dark + light
Desired and desiring bodies permeate Ea Torrado’s dance performance, “Canton
Atbp” at the 2015 Fringe Manila Arts Festival. Portraying the sex workers of
Manila, dance couples enact the old covetousness for bodies.
My children are white.
I’m just as white.
Writing it I’m not less white.
When she was born I said,
“She is so beautiful.” He said,
“She looks like a white
“Children trap bees
for their flowers
the world traps people
for itself”
—Gu Cheng, “The Art of Pulling Strings“
Any author with an unusual death will have their life read backwards. Of course,
