The More Things Change – January 13, 2020 Weekly
Have you given up on your resolutions already? Or looked around and found the same world you left behind on December 31st? You know what they say about the new boss. And more things than just marriage can feel like they’re ’til death do us part. If you’re facing a three-headed monster or the lake depths seem inviting, don’t give up. Sometimes, in our failures we find inspiration and Great Might.
"After Retirement" by Eisuke Aikawa (translated by Toshiya Kamei)
Blessed with superhuman strength, he could crush an apple with one hand. In his youth, he made a name for himself as a sumo wrestler.
大力は片手でリンゴを握り潰せるほどの怪力の持ち主で、若いときは力士として相撲の世界で活躍した。
"Cerberus began as an experiment in Vulcan’s forge" by Caroline Streff and Ray Ball
So Vulcan took a sword
And carved them from the trunk,
Carrying the remainder howling and bloodied,
Down to Alepotrypa’s yawning mouth,
Placing it gently into smiling Proserpina-Ceres’ white and waiting hands.
"Lake Nights" by Ryan Norman
Weighted jeans heavy with vacillations of ‘wait,
no, go’ fill cotton-twilled fabric with the
lake’s tiny feet that once danced on the shore
now crawl up his chest soaked
in ‘what if’ and ‘I don’t’.
"Hiccup, Goes the Clock" by Samuel Strathman
Some people have to burn
recycling for a living,
then they get sick and wonder why
they feel so polluted by the selfishness
of others.
"‘Til Death Do Us Part" by Suzanne Craig-Whytock
Sparrow was always so considerate, the kind of man who never broke a vow. No matter what I told him, he’d do it. “OK,” I said finally. “Cremate me and keep me in an urn on the mantelpiece.”