“Beatles Go Home! Have a Haircut!”, “Throw out Beatles!” and other similar hate messages showed up on the banners and flyers around Tokyo Hilton Hotel –where The Beatles stayed for their concert in Japan- in the morning of June 29th 1966. Those banners and flyers were carried by youth members of Dainippon Aikokuto or The Great Japan Patriotic Party, one of Japan’s popular right political party.
To sit down, like a weed among weeds, and rustle in the wind!
Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
While the soul, after all, is only a window,
and the opening of the window no more difficult
than the wakening from a little sleep.
—"Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches" by Mary Oliver. from West Wind: Prose Poems
Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
While the soul, after all, is only a window,
and the opening of the window no more difficult
than the wakening from a little sleep.
—"Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches" by Mary Oliver. from West Wind: Prose Poems
“You ever think you could cry so hard that there’d be nothing left in you, like how the wind shakes a tree in a storm until every part of it is run through with wind? I live in the low parts now, most days a little hazy with fever and waiting for the water to stop shivering out of the body. Funny thing about grief, its hold is so bright and determined like a flame, like something almost worth living for.”
–After the Fire, by Ada Limón, from The Carrying.
–After the Fire, by Ada Limón, from The Carrying.