//-->North? South? East? West? Loisfoeribari?
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I try, over & over, to read the word out loud.
Loisfoeribari. LoISFOeribari.
LoiSFOEribari. LoisFOERibARI.
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What is this word?
I imagine using it in sentences like,
“Man, I have to go back to the house,
I forgot my Loisfoeribari.”
or
“There’s nothing better than rain, hot rain,
open windows with music, & a tall glass
of Loisfoeribari.”
or
“How are we getting to Pittsburgh?
Should we drive or take the Loisfoeribari?”
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I have lived 4 minutes with this word not knowing
what it means.
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It is the end of the year. I consider writing my student,
Estefani Lora, a letter that goes:
To The BRILLIANT Estefani Lora!
Hola, querida, I hope that you are well. I’ve just opened the card that you
made me, and it is beautiful. I really love the way you filled the sky with
birds. I believe that you are chula, chulita, and super fly! Yes, the card
is beautiful. I only have one question for you. What does the word
‘Loisfoeribari’ mean?
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I try the word again.
Loisfoeribari.
Loisfoeribari.
Loisfoeribari.
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I try the word in Spanish.
Loisfoeribari
Lo-ees-fo-eh-dee-bah-dee
Lo-ees-fo-eh-dee-bah-dee
& then, slowly,
Lo is fo e ri bari
Lo is fo eribari
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love is for everybody
love is for every every body love
love love everybody love
everybody love love
is love everybody
everybody is love
love love for love
for everybody
for love is everybody
love is forevery
love is forevery body
love love love for body
love body body is love
love is body every body is love
is every love
for every love is love
for love everybody love love
love love for everybody
loveisforeverybody
Last words on Teeth --- Sigh. Sigh Again. Glorious. Go. Buy. The. Book.
Article comments
1 - maryam blacksher
wow. truly, thank you; i have been brought to tears of life,of rememberance, the richness of us that is like feeling grains of sand slowly. thank you for these words aracelis about yourself as well as your poetry. they bring a calm around me,feelings of relief, of, 'of course' - the calm brings my truth to my senses; blotting out the craze that can be the social mind wind.. i relax... and this poem -arroz poetica- is one of my favorites Ara. so glad it is out for everyone to take in. thank you thank you .