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A field of burning,
scorched earth.
Beneath the heat,
the choking smoke.
I am the earth,
now burned,
no more than a blackened husk.
A seed planted,
now grows.
scorched earth.
Beneath the heat,
the choking smoke.
I am the earth,
now burned,
no more than a blackened husk.
A seed planted,
now grows.
Literature
If you can read this, you can do arithmetic
“I can’t read!” I bet that’s something you don’t hear people say often. Everyone has enough knowledge of the English language to string together a text message. So why is it acceptable to suck at math? More importantly, why is it acceptable to suck at arithmetic?
Recently, I found myself in a classroom full of Grade 12 students. I wrote a simple, two-digit multiplication problem on the blackboard and asked who could solve the equation without the aid of a calculator. In a class of almost 30, only a few students raised their hands. Not only was this disappointing, but it was somewhat frightening too, bec
Literature
This Heat
This heat is not a temperature
It is a weight, a drag on ones bones.
It settles around ones shoulders, limply hanging.
It is a slope towards shadows and places of rest,
A climb up level open cliffs called parking lots.
One steps inside, and over the course of long minutes
It uncoils and falls away in thick salty layers.
To go back and take them up again is herculean.
Literature
Choix d'Aloi
Choix d'Aloi
La loi c'est un peu comme moi,
C'est un paradoxe.
Un peu comme toi, comme n'importe qui.
Alors toi, n'importe qui, homme de peu de voix,
Que crois-tu qu'est une loi ?
Un choix que tu n'as pas,
Une peur et un tracas ?
Contrairement à ce que tu penses,
Pas plus que la panse du juge,
Personne n'a de droit sur toi,
Du moins, pas celui de violer tes droits.
Donc, fais tes choix,
Ouvre la voie,
Trouve l'expression de ta vie,
Trouble au passage les endormis.
Tragédie leur grotesque mascarade,
Quitte à ce que ça pétarade leurs charades,
Charge avant qu'ils bradent en rasade,
De la drave des anc
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