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Risky multi-tasking

Words: Martina Gilli
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Multi-tasking is a great art. It often marks the difference between a cool person, and an idiot who can’t walk and talk on his phone at the same time. However, life as a busy BA kid has taught me a huge lesson about the dangers of multi-tasking. Busy as I always am, I have had to compress my bazillions of activities [...]


Halleluiah

by Martina Gilli
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The hairs stood on my neck when,
at a jazz recital at half past seven,
tapping my foot quite amicably
and smiling at my singing friend,
I heard the unequivocal cry spew out of her mouth,
breaking dam walls and hearts

Halleluiah
Halleluiah
Halleluiah
Halleluiah

She sang
and all pretence was torn.
My heart, cut with a precise incision,
throbbed for its loss.