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vil tomorrow nothing unusual for an artist s studio this is the sort of place one comes to ponder good and evil and to confront that meeting between thought and instinct peace and violence greed and giving which we all share if we dare ticket to ride the moon was gone black clouds closed over the city like the lid of a coffin thunder boomed and the winds picked up blowing through the windows of the inferno below him like an angel s breath soothing the body not the soul that would always stay trapped in hell tim sat on the roof of his sweltering tenement he watched the tiny hobo fires shivering by the tracks beyond the slums that dark jumble of buildings falling down he imagined himself running along side a freight car as the train slowed to make its turn grabbing a rung and climbing on another lost soul on a ghost train going nowhere going anywhere ghost town bound maybe not tonight but soon staccato images of hardscrabble slum life flash before him with the lightning a battle no one can win or survive not without becoming more dead than alive nowhere was better than here anywhere was better than here anything was better than nothing and here nothing was all there was for him sleepwalking remnants of wreckage tangled together franklin foster wanders the downtown streets in tatters mouth open feet dragging pale eyes staring horns blaring as he ghosts across the busy intersections franklin remembers falling screaming howling in his nightmare arms flailing legs kicking clutching grasping plunging finally he awakened nothing was clear as franklin slowly picked himself up from the gutter neither the past nor the present nor the future the future franklin almost remembers a line by shakespeare something about day to day in a petty pace other memories emerge shadowy fleetingly faces places all gone with those winds of time that life erases the crowds bustle past like a ghost in a dream franklin foster shadows through the flow a step at a time although he has nowhere to go life lessons dead bodies never look like the persons they re supposed to resemble there s something missing in them no matter how you make them up or clothe them kristy d been to her share funerals although she was hardly eleven no wonder everybody d be all shook up and crying at them before and after they d be buried in their plots despite the elaborate decorum dead ain t pretty sure ain t nothin you d want to be sure ain t no redemption nor salvation there s a livin dying which is more disturbing she s see d that too over the years since they moved from the bayou to uptown chicago after the big storm hit them and they had to relocate as her parents put it and find shelter with their relations when she was hardly going on seven but as soon as they were hunkered in another storm struck them the recession and they were as bad off as they were in louisiana only now there were more of them and all turning into corpses together with no hope whatsoever more dead than living her spindly legs dangling from her perch on the el train s railing a little hooded nonentity in her raggedy parka of faded denim kristy rivets her pale blue eyes on the flow of pedestrians streaming along the busy street toting their shopping bags pocket books and purses it s just like hillbilly hand fishin kristy thought wade in and snatch a catch run like hell and you re survivin the machine at the factory ramon and me would slit boxes all night on treacherous machines a run of long oblongs and then a run of squares and then the other way around then vice versa to be loaded on conveyors for the crews down the line for printing and strapping to pass on in stacks to the fork lifts who hauled it all to the trucks on the docks feeding the slitters and clearing the jams was the main challenge the machine settings were merely simple adjustments but fingers could be lost in the operations not exactly the job of choice for an aspiring artist and classical guitarist what you humming amigo i would ask ramon is that a new composition or is your stomach growling my stomach was ok my friend until i saw your new painting somehow we managed to get through each shift without being mutilated although many times we were both high on the stimulants we took to keep us awake after classes all day maybe you paint better with no fingers my friend maybe you don t paint no worse your music sounds like machine noise amigo can t tell the difference ramon got killed in vietnam i got drafted as well but i was spared the danger of that big slitter the politicians keep running to maim and murder each generation which they operate so well june 28 2015 how alexander pushkin used fairy tales to deal with a lack of free speech june 6 is alexander pushkin s birth anniversary this article looks at how pushkin used fairy tales to make political points as well as being recognized as a great writer during his lifetime alexander pushkin was also a successful civil servant he graduated from the imperial lyceum an elite educational institution established by tsar alexander i and went on to work in the russian foreign office however despite working at the heart of the establishment pushkin had a social conscience and began attacking the government in his writing he joined the clandestine union of welfare and wrote a series of political poems that were widely circulated in manuscript brilliance in exile in 1820 pushkin was summoned by the governor general of st petersburg count miloradovich to explain his epigrams and revolutionary poems that were circulating at the time initially the authorities were planning to exile the poet to siberia but thanks to the intervention of his influential friends he was only banished from st petersburg and sent into exile in the caucasus moldova and crimea this period turned out to be one of pushkin s most productive times during which he wrote many romantic poems and his brilliant work eugene onegin pushkin s controversial poems resurfaced in 1825 when they were linked to the failed decembrist revolt to overthrow tsar nicholas i but the tsar allowed the poet to return from exile the following year believing that he had abandoned his revolutionary sentiments in fact pushkin had simply decided to be more discreet by this point he was already renowned as a great poet and was aware that the tsar himself was closely scrutinizing his works however if we read the series of verse fairy tales he wrote in the 1830s in the political context of their time we find that there is often more to them than meets the eye a reformed character one pushkin s first fairy tales the tale of tsar saltan published in 1831 tells the story of a tsar who chooses the youngest of three sisters to be his wife however her elder sisters become jealous of her status and when she gives birth they arrange to have her sealed up in a barrel and thrown into the sea along with her baby son prince gvidon the pair wash up on a remote island and the prince who grew while in the barrel goes hunting and ends up saving an enchanted swan from a predatory bird the swan creates a city where the prince rules successfully eventually the swan turns into a princess and marries prince gvidon who is finally reunited with his father the tsar this story of separation and reunification can be seen as a thinly veiled allegory of pushkin s own situation and was perhaps designed to convince tsar nicholas i that the writer truly was reformed a veneer of conformism whether or not nicholas did see the parallels between pushkin and prince gvidon he allowed the writer to continue publishing and even commissioned literary works from him in 1833 pushkin wrote the tale of the fisherman and the fish which is about a fisherman who catches a golden fish that promises to fulfill any wish in exchange for its freedom the old fisherman and his wife have been poor their whole lives and the sudden opportunity to get rich sparks an intense greed in the wife first she asks for a palace then to become a noblewoman then to become the provincial ruler and finally the tsarina eventually the couple loses everything when the woman wants to become the ruler of the sea robert chandler a renowned russian literary translator has argued that the fisherman s wife is a caricature of empress catherine the great the empress deposed her husband peter iii effectively usurping his power in the way that the fisherman s wife does she also fought two wars with the ottoman empire to gain dominion over the black sea fruitless campaigns that wasted a great deal of money and lives pushkin as a political tool other fairy tales reveal different and more politically compelling stories pushkin was an atheist which was unusual for the time and the circles he moved in the tale of the priest and of his workman balda is about a lazy priest who tries to exploit a cheap worker russia was highly religious at that time and the attack on an orthodox church priest would have been seen as blasphemous the fairy tale written in 1830 was published posthumously in 1840 and the character of the priest was replaced with a merchant to avoid a backlash from the powerful church however the priest was reinstated in soviet publications of pushkin s fairy tales the government of the new russia had its own political ax to grind this fairy tale is also about exploitation which was very prevalent in a society where serfdom was still legal at the end the priest is criticized for rushing off after cheapness and this was also something that the communists exploited a century later the first bolsheviks looked back over works by russian 19th century writers to find acceptable messages they could use in creating the new socialist culture and pushkin s work proved brilliant in this respect his views on serfdom the orthodox church and the oppressive tsarist state fitted neatly into the communist outlook so the writer was promoted and revered from the first years of the soviet union even more so than in the 19th century pushkin s last fairy tale in verse the golden cockerel was written in 1834 three years before his tragic death in a duel the story which was based on legend of the arabian astrologer from washington irving s the tales of the alhambra was not political in any way however when nikolai rimsky korsakov adapted it into an opera in 1908 he turned it into a satire on the waning romanov dynasty and the russo japanese war which was one of the most humiliating events in russian history the golden cockerel was rimsky korsakov s last opera initially rejected by the censors and only staged after the composer s death this article was first published by the russia india report june 6 2015 constant is the rain praise for constant is the rain relentless pessimism about the state of the nation infuses sexton s accomplished poetry and short fiction the title piece about hard life and untimely death in the ghetto introduces the book s dark atmosphere being and begetting struggling and enduring as gunfire crackles and sirens wail and her fate is sealed with coffin nails sexton s characters nowhere men as much as everymen are war veterans hobos sex workers and blue collar employees facing job losses his settings are urban wastelands in the penworn papers an impoverished artist recalls his degenerate life in the gift a jewish satire redolent of shalom auslander a young man reverts to emptiness in his old age the palette is edward hopper s the ironic tone o henry s our town playfully affirms thornton wilder s morbid vision through gloomy imagery the poems are rich with alliteration internal rhymes assonance and puns they have broader application universalizing human depravity sexton s talent for social commentary and character sketching marks him as in a title he gives a character in chop suey the modigliani of the mean streets kirkus reviews earnest and emotional constant is the rain embraces desperation in tone subject and even in diction a yearning for meaning in a nonsensical world comes to shape much of the text forming the image of a people and a country existing without any defined meaning sexton s poetry generally forms isolated scenes of hardship and makes up the bulk of the work like crucifixion crosses dangling weary ghosts the telephone poles along the lost roads of america flash past me these images producing small segments of reality combine to show the complete picture of a fragmented people looking for solace in a world of hard truths from the individual seeking understanding to the drug addict seeking a reprieve from existence the characters are easily recognizable and empathetic figures complimenting sexton s poetry is not only prose but his artwork most impressive about the prose is the continued attention to detail in diction and syntax the result is a work accessible to all that imparts a feeling that is for the people rather than simply about them alex franks foreward reviews may 25 2015 immigration is not a crime i am fortunate enough to live in a country that has made rapid strides in poverty alleviation over the last few decades and if i wanted to move out of india the reasons would be no different from why western expatriates a posher word for short term immigrants look for jobs in emerging asian countries it would essentially be a combination of better pay an opportunity to learn a new language and be a part of a new culture and just to experience some new kind of adventure however i will be the last person on earth to judge those who are trying to escape poverty strife and violence and start a new life in another country even if they are going on rickety fishing boats sure mass immigration to a country with large unemployment and depleting resources is not the best scenario for either the immigrant or the host nation but then these people whether they are latin americans trying to sneak in to the united states or africans and arabs looking for a better life in europe or burmese refugees trying to reach malaysia essentially what they re doing is no different from what europeans did for centuries europeans invaded north america and built the country on the enslavement of one race and the genocide of another where was the legality there or for their invasions of south america and australia was colonisation legal did the british dutch and portuguese ask the indians indonesians and indigenous people of brazil for permission to come in live loot and oppress the present world order was set by the very same people who broke every tenet of decency when they dominated the world i am of the firm belief that african people should overthrow their western backed dictators and focus on building their own nations right policies can lead to a revival in africa much on the lines of what happened in asia but labelling everyone who is in search of a better life as a criminal simply disgusts me if we re going to use this as a yardstick we might as well stop glorifying people like christopher columbus and vasco da gama 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