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YES!

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the weakerthans - a new name for everything

when the bus-shelter windows
and napkin-dispensers surprise
with distorted reflections
it's never the someone
you're hoping to recognize

when the rent is too high
living here between reasons to live
where you can't sleep alone
and your memories groan
and the borders of night start to give

when you can't save
cash or conviction; you're broke
and you're breaking-a tired shoelace or a wave
so long past, past-due
a new name for everything

when the one-ways collude
with the map that you folded wrong
and the route you abandoned
is always the path
that you probably should be upon

when the bottle-cap ashtrays
and intimate's ears are all full
with results of your breath
and the threads of your fear
are unfurled with the tiniest pull

one more time, try
stand with your hands in your pockets
and stare at the smudge on a newspaper sky
and ask it to rain
a new name for everything

fire every phrase
they don't want to work for us anymore
dot and dash our days
make your face the flag of a semaphore

all you won't show
the boxes you brought here and never unpacked
are still patiently waiting to go
so put on those clothes you never grew into
and smile like you mean it for once
if you come back, bring
a new name for everything

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well, pass me a fuckin' bottle then.

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meaza eshetu, an ethiopian who works as a professor in south korea, talks about the racial discriminations she faced as a black woman working and living in south korea—one of the most ethnically homogeneous nations in the world:


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"ho, brah, like catch cracks?"

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happy 60th birthday to the great han nation!



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heatery #9:


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i doubt that this is going to last for long, but the republic of korea is currently in second place on the 2008 olympics medal standings with four gold medals! the people's republic of china tops the list with eight golds, and the united states in third with three.

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