A Dream Deferred… Reading Thai politics through Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a
I Tracked A Dead Man Down A Trench: A Poem Revisit (or Analysis, If I Dare Say)
‘I tracked a dead man down a trench’ I tracked a dead man down a trench, I knew not he was dead. They told me he had gone that way, And there his foot-marks led. The tr
The 2010s Revisit
Ten years ago, in 2010, I was thirteen years old. I believe I was still in the second year of my Mattayom (middle school) life. I was, then, a young naïve country boy who had no i
The Advent of Democracy, just in Time for Christmas
It’s more than half a decade since the arrival of military intervention in Thai politics with its dictatorship being shoved down Thai people’s throats. Not many successful poli
Bleach – Eye Candy: A Thought
How Chivalry forces women into the submissive role… Before we venture into a dangerous realm where Bleach fans look at me with the hostility for my act of blasphemy toward their