Author: Nada Gordon

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Kreppusonnettan (IMF! IMF! OMG! OMG!)

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Superstar sound poet Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl writes:

Iceland’s independence hero, Jón Sigurðsson, performs the Crisis Sonnet, by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl – written in response to the IMF coming to Iceland.

IMF and OMG and LOL should be recognizable to english speakers. The FME is the Icelandic Financial surveillance authorities, and FIT is what you pay as a fine for using your bankcard when you don’t have any money in your account – as well as being a guesthouse/prison for people who come to Iceland asking for political asylum.

Flarf plus

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Pictured: K. Silem Mohammad, Brandon Downing, yrs truly, Gary Sullivan, Jordan Davis, Drew Gardner, and “Uncle” Bruce Andrews, on the occasion of Kasey’s (K. Silem’s) INCREDIBLY hard-rocking reading at Columbia University last night.

The FIne Romance of the Three Smiles

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A pomegranate that no one admired
I can only sigh and pity myself

Nightingale’s speech in the scented garden
Sitting down and scrutinizing him

Seeing he is so refined
It seems such a perfect match

An unmissable match made in heaven.
Don’t you recognize me, sister?

Three smiles at Hiqiu locked me in love
Three locks of love shackling my soul.

Mistake me not for a wanton man,
my love for you are sincere

I ponder as I grind the ink,
How many would pursue me like that?

His poetry and painting are splendid
A scholar like him is good

The young masters ordered me to get ginseng
We’ll seal our love in the Peony Pavilion

Autumn Fragrance, don’t go!
He dares to entice my pageboy.

Skowly pacing her lotus steps
Heart beating wildly

In shyness and glad beauty,
She takes the seal with joy and fear

The fine romance of the three smiles
Will be passed on for all posterity

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Main Entry:
pro·lix Listen to the pronunciation of prolix Listen to the pronunciation of prolix
Pronunciation:
\prō-ˈliks, ˈprō-(ˌ)\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French prolix, from Latin prolixus extended, from pro- forward + liquēre to be fluid — more at liquid
Date:
15th century

1 : unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long 2 : marked by or using an excess of words