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• Man to Messiah (a duet)
  by Daniel Rarela

  Give me every single shred of admiration / That I feel I’m lacking / Bless me with the wealth, the women / All the talent found in no one el…

  Two things inspired Man to Messiah. The first is an amazing book by Donald Miller that I honestly believe everyone should read, entitled Searching for God Knows What. The second is a beautiful song written by Elisa Toffoli: Qualcosa Che Non C’e The refrain of her song especially stood out to me: / Ho aspettato a lungo qualcosa che non c’è / Invece di guardare il sole sorgere. In English, it means: I’ve waited so long for something that doesn’t exist/ Instead of watching the sunrise I’d explain how that fits in so well with one of the messages in Donald’s book (namely, the Lifeboat Theory), but my recommendation is that you read it and see for yourself

• Two (or Camarilla)
  by Brett Foster

  We’re a clique just me and you. / Our cabal, it’s made for two. / Oh Camarilla. / ...Oh, Camarilla.

  I wrote this poem for a friend at Uni who was studying Engineering. Hi Shane, if you’re reading! He was trying to impress an English Lit major he had been dating for a few weeks and enlisted my help to tell her how he felt. I was studying accounting by the way. Yeah, go figure. The challenge was this: / She (Fiona) had an assignment to write a poem combining “cabal” and “couple”. / The poem had to be exactly 40 lines. / No words could be longer than 5 letters except a name. I chose Camarilla (which is a cabal). / Two line rhymes only or no rhymes at all. / Presented orally to music. So, Shane wanted to tell her how he felt, show her he knew something about Lit and impress her by completing the assignment before she did. Big ask for a guy whose best writing (he will freely admit this) was done inside the symbols on flowcharts! But how could I refuse – an opportunity to play Cyrano de Bergerac! I found it recently, on paper gone crisp and yellow with age, but here I have modified it with 11 words over the 5 letter limit. I also added a line. I don’t care, it sounds better. It’s harder to write a long poem using small words than you might think but the result actually makes it “sing-song” better. Do you think? 4×7 letter words / 7×6 letter words / 26×5 letter words / 39×4 letter words / 38×3 letter words / 35×2 letter words / 13×1 letter words Anyone care to guess what happened to Shane and Fiona.