in search of color everywhere: a collection of african-american poetry

inquisition by gloria wade-gayles
(this poem was read to me by my af-am professor during seminar)

do you love her?
yes.
do you begin your prayers with her name?
yes.
have you trained the nightingales to sing her favorite song, continuously?
yes.
have you carved her face on gibraltar?
yes.
have you built a boardwalk over the oceans and the seas so that she can walk on water?
yes.
have you traveled through the desert in search of a velvet cactus just for her?
yes.
have you substituted your dreams for her nightmares?
yes.
do you speak her name in a gentle whisper and only with her permission?
yes.

do you stroke her back
massage her feet
fluff her pillows
draw her bath
cook her meals
brush her hair
dress her in

silks and satins
sables and minks
pearls diamonds
rubies ermines
and glass slippers
that cannot break?

yes.

do you love her?

yes!
yes!
yes!

is she white?

SILENCE.

francois ozon.

swimming pool

i can't quite seem to shake this movie--i was quietly seduced by it. one of the best movies of the last 365 days.

she hate me.

she hate me: a spike lee joint

this is the intro to a review i wrote for an online arts & entertainment site.

"she hate me" is a cinematic menagerie where a corporate whistleblower, infertile lesbian harems, pharmaceutical giants, and italian mobsters come together in this sometimes confused but always engaging film directed by spike lee. lee, in the way only he can, tells the saga of jack armstrong (anthony mackie), a young & successful pharmaceutical VP who is corporate enough for white collar politics (and hip hop enough to be believable). his success ends when he blows the whistle on corruption ending his reign atop the corporate ladder. for income, jack turns to impregnating infertile lesbians--18 of them in fact--for ten grand a pop. with the help of former fiancee turned lipstick lesbian fatima (kerry washington), armstrong makes quite a name for himself as a "baby making machine," so much so that news of his sexual improprities make their way to the highest court on the Hill.

flux: a scene ripped from "queer as folk."

flux

a restuarant in the south end. highly recommended. the style of food is classified as "eclectic/new american"--difficult to explain but you know it when you see it. there are long white formica tables, colored-paper napkins that change seasonally, and bulbous light fixtures.