June 2011
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On Living, By Nazim Hikmet
kstrel:
I keep thinking about Hikmet lately, maybe because he was a political prisoner, and most of my work now revolves around Bradley Manning. Hikmet spent most of his adult life in and out of prison in Turkey, for being just a little too political for poet. Pablo Neruda and many others had been campaigning for his release. He eventually escaped to exile, but didn’t live much longer. He...
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At times like these, when things are at their most...
Friendship
Look – it is snowing and Bradley Manning is alone. I wonder if he was secretly watching over us, and now that he’s locked up and away, we’re just drifting in space. It feels good to keep secrets, even better when someone cares enough to write those secrets down. At times like these – when things are at their most surreal – I think of how Manning was left alone by Julian Assange, by all...
