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For against .
We met in that watery year—羊水—when the world wasn’t damned and my skin wasn’t bad. Dead Poets near Centrestage, 13/F, 22:00, buzzed by booze and blued by mood lighting, 7-ELEVEN’s grape strong sour in your hand, glass...
The first poem is a Petarchan sonnet. The second is an Onegin stanza. The third is a combination of an English haiku and prose-poetry. Much love to , , , and for reading some of these. Enjoy.
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The following is my translation of ‘Kahit Saan’ by Huseng Batute (pronounced Who-seng Bah-tooh-teh). It is a love lyric written in Tagalog with 6 stanzas consisting of 5 lines each. Batute, otherwise known by his real name José Coraz...
This post assumes familiarity with my previous essay, which you can read here:
It was intended to be standalone, but following a robust comment put forth by , I thought it deserved an equally robust response. Said response has since...
UPDATE: This article has been updated as of 01/02/2026.
This article was excerpted and expanded from the ‘Batman’ entry in Neo-Passéism.
Grant Morrison () has publicly stated a preference for they/them pronouns. As such, this essay u...
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