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One day in Venice, dawn to dusk.

From Ode to Capitalism.

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I can’t find this poem anywhere else online so I’m posting it here:

Colored Blues Singer

Some weep to find the Golden Pear

Feeds maggots at the core,

And some grow cold as Ice, and bear

Them prouder than before

 

But you go singing like the sea

Whose lover turns to land;

You make your grief a melody

And take it by the hand.

 

Such songs the mellow-bosomed maids

Of Africa intone

For lovers dead in hidden glades,

Slow rotting flesh and bone.

 

Such keenings tremble from the kraal,

Where sullen-browed abides

The second wife whose dark tears fail

To draw him to her sides.

 

Somewhere Jeritza breaks her heart

On symbols Verdi wrote;

You tear the strings of your soul apart,

Blood dripping note by note.

1. Maria Jeritza, a Chech-born soprano was a major opera star of the twenties and thirties.”

2. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer of some of the most famous operas in the world, including Aida (1871), Otello (1887), Il Trovatore (1853) and La Traviata (1853)

First known photobomber. You have to look closely though.

Is there a single source that all spoken languages on earth share in common? Maybe. A new study in linguistics by Dr. Quentin D. Atkinson, a biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand shows that languages may have originated from a common “seed.” The study seems to correspond with what biologists have proven about genetic code: that the further from South Africa people traveled while populating the world the more of their genetic code and, possibly, their language people lost. It’s an interesting theory. One that, if it bears out in further tests, will change the way we see linguistics forever. Read the full article at the New York Times.