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  • Rue de Saint-Ghislaine

    A 10-stanza poem on a captain’s last stand. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Disco Elysium from ZA/UM. Whence all this knocking?Minds frayed, heads locking. Whence all this stalling? Blades stayed, leaves falling. Rifles longing—their foes’ falling. Tears stinging, the end’s bringing. When heads fleeing, stay thinking— Fear’s creeping, and souls’re sinking. Peace, brethren in the…

  • Boiadeiro (The Cow Herder)

    #thoughtcatalogue An excerpt from ZA/UM’s Disco Elysium. “I still don’t really understand this whole *boiadeiro* thing.” “Of course not. To truly understand the boiadeiro, you need to listen to ‘On the Western Plain’.” A *boiadeiro* (*boia* for short) is a cow herder from upstream Magritte, the great steppes of Northern Mesque. He is a rugged…