In one chapter of her new memoir, "This Is Not the Ivy League," Mary Clearman Blew splices the story of a shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, into an account of raising her children while going to graduate school: "When cornered, I lashed out, if not with a rifle, and then turned the blame on myself".
I could not sleep if I saw the lash Drinking her blood with each fearful gash, And I saw her babes torn from her breast, Like trembling doves from their parent nest.
Thanks to my upsettingly light-colored eyelashes, leaving the house without a thick coat of brown mascara means that I look as if I have no lashes at all.
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.
Rather than being "relatively mild," slavery relied on brutality and violence, the horrors of which are described in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Bury Me in a Free Land": I could not sleep if I saw the lash Drinking her blood with each fearful gash, And I saw her babes torn from her breast, Like trembling doves from their parent nest.
So even if I had wanted to lash out, that sort of behavior would've served no benefit to myself, or my ex -- who I still wanted to come home in one piece.
See "Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)" — which turns lashing out into a sticky, moody song — from her bracing, aggressive and surprisingly tender debut album, "Night Time, My Time" (Capitol).
If someone wants to jump me, I'll see them coming in the empty street opposed to them having a chance to suddenly lash out if I pass right by them on the sidewalk.
I don't remember every conversation we had, but would I remember if I had received this tongue-lashing?
The Pogues, based in London and fronted by the singer Shane MacGowan, found success by fusing traditional Irish music, rock and punk into a boisterous and exhilarating hybrid on albums like "Rum Sodomy & the Lash" and "If I Should Fall From Grace With God".
