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united in hate

'If you hated the enemy, you could be loved. People smiled dopily at each other, and some eyes welled with tears. They had a good hate.' ~Sandra Newman…

May 21 • 

Jim Pinho

March 2025

The Vanishing Damp - part one

‘A little more sunshine—I’d be burning. A little more blue—I’d be gone.’ — Mario de Sá-Carneiro

Mar 12 • 

Manoel Malone

October 2024

beyond good and evil: the humanity in jafar and frank-n-furter

‘There’s a light, a light / In the darkness of everybody’s life’ — Richard Hartley and Richard O’Brien

Oct 31, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

then and now

‘Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? / have you reckon’d the earth much? / Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? / Have you felt so proud to…

Oct 21, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

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o tapete enrolado

‘chama-me porco e bota-me de comer’ — provérbio galego

Oct 9, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

September 2024

on appearances and assumptions

‘If it bears the semblance of a rose, and carries the fragrance of a rose, it may, in truth, be an apple.’ — Manoel Malone

Sep 27, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

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nine pelagic poems

‘Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.’ — Herman Melville

Sep 18, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

2

gratitude

‘foamy waves wash to shore “treasures” as a sacrifice to damp sand.’ — Joe Brainard, 30 one-liners

Sep 9, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

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May 2024

no man is an island

‘de facto / com o teu pénis / deixo de ser ilha / sou península’ — Amândio Reis

May 24, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

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fourth of july

'chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.' — José Saramago, The Double

May 12, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

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April 2024

time-travelling tourists

‘We have orgies at home. / Tonight, it’s The Book of Mormon.’ - Elaine Equi

Apr 18, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

2

juvenília

‘Youth is a spark; it seems / Ephemeral, yet of enduring worth. / Like a beacon it gleams, / Illuminating the path of our earthly birth.’ — Marianne…

Apr 3, 2024 • 

Jim Pinho

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