The Hood
By: Iris P. Concepcion

Of course, everyone knows why the writer in the bucket full of cutting and adding and pasting and so on and so forth lost her cool for about three hours or thereabouts. Then she saw some crawling hands. Is that super expensive? Auction, auction. If I weren't such a sweet cad to these snoogans (they are really Filipinos at heart----I never doubted why they can blend with my sumans and latiks--I spotted that even before. Offshore Ninoys). Anyhow, let us scale down the recent excitement to: That apparel is such a grab. I hope the weighing scale wouldn't steal all your money. I feel everything, most of all, shyness because once again, the deliverance came. What will I do without these wrestlers?

I am opening my jewelry box. (Twwiiiinnnnng!!!).

Match yourselves with the quotations below :

1. I don’t call myself a poet because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist---Bob Dylan

2. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren’t.---Randall Jarrell

3, The snotgreensea.The scrotumtightening sea. ---James Joyce

4. Officials are educated, but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him by the hour, he may nod politely, but he won’t understand a word of it. --- Franz Kafka

5. Mary lived by wondering what lay round the corner. I lived by knowing there was no corner. --- P.J. Kavanagh

6. If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity --- John F. Kennedy

7. You know you haven’t stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle---Groucho Marx

8. When I sit I don’t like to/ sit the way my fleshy bottom wants to,/but in the way that my spiritual bottom would, if I sat/intertwine itself with the chair.---Christian Morgenstern but this is truly Keif Southern

9. All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed IS truth, perhaps the only truth.---(the quoted somewhat disappeared).

10. The sculptor must himself feel that he is not so much inventing or shaping the curve of a breast or shoulder as delivering the image from its prison---Anais Nin

11. I’m fat, but I’m thin inside. Has it ever occurred to you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone?---George Orwell

12. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheep-herding.---Ezra Pound

13. It is, we believe,/Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump / Can extinguish hell.---Henry Reed

14. A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.---J.D. Salinger

15. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.---Carl Sandburg