the blessing of a topsoil layer
all of it is corpses.
All of it.
Every inch of black sand
tan, loamy, dark, clay,
all of it is corpses
past, present, and future –
breaking down, building up
life as reinvention –
walking on four legs, three or two,
a sphinx’s riddle that ends in
one foot of topsoil,
waiting to spring up and
walk again.
on hobbies
is it skill or acquisition,
is it long hours of iteration
or three-hundred-dollars every
few months?
is it reading or the
waiting pile?
is it that perfect shot
three hundred yards
one dead bullseye,
or twelve thousand dollars
sitting in a steel closet?
Is it you?
Or what you can buy?
both ends
We are discovering new ways
to burn these candles:
from the middle, from the soul.
We are seeing light cast off at new angles;
we are shortening even the day
by burning the sun whole.
modern libertine
No God To Judge Me
Only Advertisers;
building a moral core from
the fringes in;
modeling a man from
code and sight,
smoke and sighs,
no heaven but
the perfect click,
no hell but
the buy.
the look and the use
the sheathe is blotted,
black and peeling,
the hilt is rusting,
but the blade is sharp;
the blade is sharp.
oh!
Oh! Love!
Thou
button-battery
cool in the hand and
easy in the mouth;
and burning, burning
deep in the gut.
the logic of the saw
the saw knows
what the knife is;
the knife knows
what the axe is;
they
clack together in the trunk,
each a role of their own –
each sharp in a
different way –
each waiting to see
what all they’ll
go through.
voice
it rises in anger and
cools to soothe;
it runs as wild as
fire, as free as breeze
when the boss ain’t looking –
so malleable and
morphable –
known in a thousand configurations
to different minds;
and somehow,
each heavy tone and
light insinuation
bears the same mark
In Silence
in silence we make noise;
listen –
in silence we make noise.
we fill the space we
color the drab,
and in silence we fidget,
squirm, squeak, we
chirp and babble and
it lasts a moment –
but silence,
it outlasts us all.
MENYUSUN ARAH, MEMBENTUK MANUSIA: MENELUSURI SISTEM PENDIDIKAN CHINA
Pemerintah China menempatkan pendidikan sebagai poros strategis pembangunan nasional, sebuah orientasi yang berakar sejak reformasi Deng Xiaoping pada 1978. Dalam kerangka teoretis yang lebih terarah, pendekatan ini beresonansi dengan konsep human capital yang dirumuskan oleh Gary Becker pada 1964, yang menegaskan bahwa investasi pendidikan meningkatkan produktivitas dan pertumbuhan ekonomi
A Wolf on the Fold
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