sábado, 17 de enero de 2009

002

in one of my villages (yes, I'm a hillbilly)
lives a dumbass.

during the war he composed
folk-decasyllables
dedicated to president Tudjman.
that was then a popular hobby
in my homeland.

that, naturally, did not stop others
from considering him a dumbass.

except for old Ivan who would say:
"True, he's a dumbass, but, by God, everything falls into place for him."
he meant rhyme.

despite his ignorance of
the trends in contemporary poetry,
it cannot be denied that Ivan is
de facto an artist.

his peaches are always the fullest.



P.S. my apologies to the people of Naklice
who don't share my opinion regarding Ivan's peaches.
I wrote it because of the punch line.

P.P.S. my apologies to Ivan because of the apology to
the people of Naklice.
I wrote it so that
the punch line would not seem too cheesy.


VLADO BULIĆ



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Juliana Jiménez was born in Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia. She lived there for 13 years before moving to the U.S., on the 10 am flight on June 20th, 2000. Now she is a Journalism (and Frustrated English) Major and Chinese Minor; a Junior, and anxious about it. She speaks Spanish 89% of her time, English 9% and Chinese 2%. Spanish at home, on the phone, in between classes, in writing, in love. English for Academia and renewing car insurance. Chinese only for text-messages with her Colombian-American-Chinese-Swiss older sister and with her Colombian-American-French-Chinese boyfriend. She lived in Beijing, China for a total of 11 months before she was back-stabbed by the Chinese government.

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