August 6, 2010 » Papirni ždralovi / Paper Cranes + a little story

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It’s the 06th of August…the first from two indescribably ugly dates. And I have a little story.
In the second half of 80s and early 90s before Yugoslavia broke up, ecology was one of the most popular topics in children’s literature and our televisions were almost exclusively buying ecology and nature-related cartoons for syndication…The Bluffers, Raccoons, Ewoks, The Bosco Adventure. I still can’t decide which is my favourite, but the later has got to have the most emotional and symbolic ending. I think this was very useful to my education, hopefully it was the same for other children or least some

 

August 5, 2010 » Gladovanje! (Ljubav, po njemu?) / Starvation! (Love, After Him?)

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This is ugly. It’s probably also tasteless in some way. However, I am incredibly pleased with most of it. Perhaps it’ll need a little clean-up, perhaps not. But given what kind of carp is called poetry nowadays (I think people use poetry and other forms of artistic expression to justify their lifestyle, as if it wasn’t supposed to be the other way round…will talk about that some other time), its messy structure can be justified by how complex the matter is.
There are a couple of made-up words, mostly in the Serbian version. There are no adjectives such as “sluščinjski”

 

August 4, 2010 » Marijen-Aleksandra / Marianne-Alexandra

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This is an imaginary conversation with Marianne-Alexandra. By the way, my parents’ names are Mirjana (but everyone calls her Marijana O_o) and Aleksandar. Oh, the confusion. The answer lies within someone slightly older than them and if you don’t like that someone, I don’t understand you. Kudos to him.
The lala and nyanya thing comes from a song that I thought was about my paternal grandmother, whom I first called Njanja and then, after she got offended by the song comparison, Nana. This is the said song. Basically, the singer tells a female that she should not be nyanya and that

 

August 2, 2010 » Kristalna uspavanka malih pečuraka / Crystalised Lullaby Of Little Mushrooms

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This p..m puts “cute” in “execute”. I started writing a draft for it while travelling back from Petrovac (the Serbian, not the Montenegrin one) on Thursday.
I wanted to post it today though it was written between Thursday and Saturday, as 02nd August’s St. Elijah’s day for us old calendarists and St. Elijah’s “appearance” here is so strange that, if he was really immortal and acted the way us Slavs belive he does, he’d toss a lightning at me.
I wanted to call this p..m “Crystal Lullaby”, but in order to avoid any possible references to anything in modern culture, I googled

 

August 1, 2010 » Unclear…love?!

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This one is partly a betrayal of my pet peeve – I can’t stand it when people use English words just like that, to be more trendy or whatever. But in this particular case, I had to keep an English title and a single English line in this p..m, as it just cannot be translated and make a point.
Originally, I wanted to write one with more comedy than any other and set it in far future. Now, it’ll most likely end up being the series’ epilogue, thus kicking the title p..m off the last place.
The year is 3010. Nowhereland is

 

July 28, 2010 » Još o Vučku i o tome kako je osvojio ovaj svet / More About The Little Bad Wolf And How He Conquered This World

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This whole entry, apart from the paragraph you’re reading right now was written in the morning of 27th July 2010, when I believe I had more caffeine than ever in my life. Now I don’t get people who use stimulants completely, before this, I had at least a wee bit of symphathy for them. What I experienced was like going to hell and it was just a mere soft drink in a large amount. Alcohol? Drugs? No, thanks, not for me. Never! Not that I ever wanted to, but I thought I’d make it sure after this caffeine “overdose”.

In the

 

July 18, 2010 » Ova ima dugačak, poetičan naslov sa uskličnikom na kraju! / This One Has A Long, Poetic Title With An Exclamation Mark At Its End!

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This took a while. This has something that the rest of the series does not have and this equals with You’re Always Awake When I’m Dead – sympathy, warmth, at least flashes of it. And it’s almost as long as the flagship Chasing The Doll. Perhaps it actually is the true flagship?
A dear friend and a Slavonic person who’s spend all her life so far in non-Slavonic countries told me that A never shows any feelings for B, especially in Bunny and Jumps Into The Raging Fire, while supressed feelings in Chasing The Doll are leading A to being as

 

July 16, 2010 » Krhotine / Sherds

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This is my 100th p..m of 2010. I usually write 20-60 per year, but I wrote a lot in 1998 and pretty much in 2005. Looks like 2010 is going to surpass everything. No boundaries.
Krhotine
Bomba u obliku slatkiša u mom prednjem džepu,
slatkiš u obliku bombe u mom zadnjem džepu,
i jedno i drugo su fragmenti tebe.
Ne volim krhotine,
veoma rado bih te zalepila,
ali sam potrošila sav lepak,
Senka u obliku mrlje na mom levom rukavu,
mrlja u obliku senke na mom desnom rukavu,
i jedno i drugo su kapljice tebe.
Ne volim prljavštinu,
veoma rado bih te počistila,
ali te ne vidim u mrklom mraku.
Nije trebalo da me

 

July 15, 2010 » Onda,ovo je hipoksija? / Is This Hypoxia, Then?

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Today is a superproductive day in so many ways. I might even get everything done, for a change. Of course, I’m talking about work. However, not even being busy can stop me from writing. Similar waves of inspiration lead me to getting disastrous grades in unrelated subjects in high school…but I loved that, as it was a huge challenge to bring those horrible grades up to a Serbian equivalent of A (5) or B (4).
It might not sound like one, but this p..m is super-optimistic. Perhaps my expressions of optimism are nowhere near what people think what optimism is. I

 

July 13, 2010 » Some illustrations and applying for another slam

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Looks like I never wrote about that here, but I participated in a great monthly slam on the 26th of June (which is funny). I was reading two p..ms – Retrograde-Circular Methamorphosis which made people laugh, as I turned it into a very dramatic dialogue representing the so-called A and B characters and Wrong Star, as I wanted to be polite and not go with two long ones. Should’ve gone with two long ones, though, having seen how other poets were abusing the occasion and what kind
I liked an older lady in red who came unannounced and was

 
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