Carved into the calendar of my mind and every sinew of my muscle are the days of late September. There exist the memories of him and marks of tears cried in silence and minds gone astray of newspapers he ordered in secret and soiled shoes of spam calls and spring colds of musty […]
Archives for February 2024
Waterwheel
The waterwheel has seen fresh rain and turns until it quits the mill, and joins the sunny stream, the waters do not judge its rusted nails and mold: such joy in growing old! The wheel has turned and now the leaves have opened on their fiery show; the world must move, those flame-drops fall and […]
Nineteen
Reality is unbending over my eyelids. The tides tattoo my ankles and I close my eyes on the highway so they can take the wheel from the tremors of my grasp and carry me home. My recklessness is a child I hold by the hand and lead through the thinning aisles of the grocery store. […]
D.C.’s Most Expensive Retirement Home: Congress
The US electorate has some serious daddy issues. Scratch that, Grandaddy issues. The ever-rising age of our representatives isn’t a fluke but rather the product of a gradual fossilization over the last century, eroding the hallmarks of robust representation and fundamentally threatening American democracy. Age isn’t always an issue — I have no doubt […]
Free Will, Faith, and a Journey to India
Free Will Here’s a question for you: can you point to anything in your life, any singular thing you’ve done or accomplished, that is your own doing? The question, though at first glance a bit bizarre, stems from a stream of questions I have asked and continue to ask myself. The first of this stream […]
How Do We Find a Middle Ground in Online Transparency?
Curiosity is human instinct. It is in our nature to be curious about what our friends and family are doing, who the person next to you in the library is texting long paragraphs to, what the people in your class are whispering about, and what grades they got on their last midterm. Of course, these […]
Death By a Thousand Emails: How Administrative Bloat is Killing American Higher Education
In recent years, Yale has achieved the unfortunate distinction of having more administrators and managers than undergraduate students. For its fewer than five thousand undergraduate students, Yale proudly employs an army of over 5,460 administrators. Like many of its peer institutions, Yale faces an epidemic of administrative bloat: a self-perpetuating ecosystem of expensive career administrators […]
abscess
hey, lover / jesus of smoky sighs / grieving wind / liquorice cigarettes / white skirts and daddy’s gun / do you still cut your face / out of photos / every picture / a shadow / of a shadow / of a boy with / golden veins / shark bites in the morning / […]