Video from KarmaTube: “Trust.” Karim Sulayman is an Arab-American tenor from Chicago. Ten days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger to perform a trust experiment. Watch this silent video (set to Sulayman singing Sinead O’Connor’s “In this Heart”) as Sulayman stands blindfolded outside Trump International Hotel in Central Park West in New York City and asks strangers to trust him.
Cristina M.R. Norcross | Three poems
Send the Shadows Packing There are shadows moving freely now. Something has been uncovered and unleashed. Disrespect, aggression, hatred. It has been given permission to walk and talk amongst us. When we see it, we need to call it what it is. We need to shout about it. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Shine a spotlight on it, put a siren on it, reveal the hatred for what it is, so that […]
Bob Findysz | Mostly I am alone…and Brothers
Mostly I am alone Though surrounded by people, engaged, enraged, enveloped by fellow travelers on bustling boulevards and byways in a compact country — mostly I am alone with thoughts, dreams. I might share something. But, nobody’s listening. Perhaps sharing is too invasive, embarrassing for both of us. Better to withdraw within the confines of my mind. Conversation is a daily diet, but utilitarian monologue not dialogue. We are a […]
Garrett Rowlan | Eve’s Apple
WHEN THE CONFERENCE ENDED, Eve left the hotel’s windowless room and refused a man’s invitation to have a drink. He was bald, overweight, and anyway she didn’t feel like being picked up. Her headache felt like a watermark behind her eyes. Returning to her room she fell asleep and woke at twilight. She felt better. She watched TV for ten minutes, knew that she didn’t want to sit here all […]
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