Da ‘Toons Tell Da Story! | Filosofa’s Word

As usual, the cartoonists have been busy this week!!!  It used to take me a couple of weeks to collect enough really good ones for a post, but now … my proverbial cup runneth over!  I can onl…

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“The Cigarette Girl” by Dawn Pisturoni – MasticadoresUsa // Editor: Barbara Leonhard //

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An unlit cigarette dangled carelessly from her mouth.
Dark eyes glowed with ecstasy
As pointed fingernails dug furiously into her palm.
She inhaled sharply with each bloody gouge,
Enjoying the pain and sight of blood
Running onto the concrete floor.
She was known in the neighborhood as
The Cigarette Girl
Because she never smoked the damned things
But liked the taste of nicotine
Hanging on her tongue.
It was cool, she thought,
Like a female version of Marlon Brando
Or Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper,
Riding their bikes outside the law
And giving it to the Man.
She liked the smell of black leather
And how it felt against her skin.
She was a bad girl, all right,
And her parents knew it.
She was marching to the beat of her own drum, they thought,
And shouldn’t be steered in another direction
Until the voices in her head forced her to change.
 
She wrote poetry with a black marker
On the walls of her basement prison
And spoke in unintelligible words
To the rats she kept as pets.
 
The drum never changed its rhythm,
The voices never changed their tune,
The Cigarette Girl never stopped chewing on that damned cigarette.

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Source: “The Cigarette Girl” by Dawn Pisturoni – MasticadoresUsa // Editor: Barbara Leonhard //

El principal río de Nueva Delhi se tiñó de negro por los altos niveles de amoniaco – Stigmatis

El hedor de las oscuras aguas del Yamuna, el principal rio de Nueva Delhi, aleja a la gente de sus orillas. Los niveles de amoniaco están en uno de sus picos, provocando una crisis en las plantas de tratamiento y el corte de suministro de agua a más de un tercio de la población de la capital india.

Source: El principal río de Nueva Delhi se tiñó de negro por los altos niveles de amoniaco – Stigmatis