notes separated by xxx, talk of slaughter and genocide as remembered moments before getting in a car crash in Montana and worrying whether his loved ones will know what has gone through his brain
two parts, a short narrative of running away and losing everything and getting lost forever titled Kidnapper, followed by a short note on the debate of Tolstoy v. Dostoevsky "If I wish to change the world, I will read Tolstoy. But when the world still gives away after every change, I will read Dostoevsky."
work from the same fiction class, he writes the first paragraph in three different forms, first without instructed, then instructed to make it a detective novel, then instructed to create a romance
miscellaneous notes on weather and a meteor shower and image of a river; draft of poem with themes of time dissolving, people escaping, and a guest who is visiting and cooking
Shahid envisions his hand as a city, a city where for some reason each finger goes straight to a prison, then a short bit about the latin names for vegetables and flowers, then a recanting of a tragedy of two innocent brothers being shot in cold blood in the village of Khanan (a village supposedly "gifted" to Shahid's grandmother
miscellaneous notes on theme of life changes over time; images of sky and house and meeting a woman in Phoenix airport in 1994 who said she was "programmed to be lonely"
sketch of an introduction for W.S. Merwin, who is visiting Hamilton College, in which Shahid speaks of his insistence on being the one who does the introducing and of how brilliant Merwin is; miscellaenous notes on existence
