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Bushra

About Me

I'm a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a book bag full of poems. Now, I'm a little more organized about it and perform my poems and stories in theaters and colleges around the country. My books are "Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism" (Seal Press, 2002) which I co-edited with Daisy Hernandez and the book of poetry "Marianna's Beauty Salon." These days, I'm living in California and writing an on-the-road adventure novel for disowned Muslim girls. To see poems and excerpts of the novel, click on www.bushrarehman.com You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Blog

Will Heaven look like Zeenat Aman?

My mother used to tape Indian movies illegally all day longthered be three or four movies goingtwo VCRs whirring getting all technologically hornywith the high-pitched songsof the young female starsth...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:37:00 GMT

Home

What can I say, the garden is already buried under cementthe spiders have engrained themselves into every crackand the ghosts of the mice glued or cut in half by the trapshave just given up on the pla...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:33:00 GMT

Amey's Cassettes

The other day, I found my mothers cassettes from the eightiesthey were full of love songs from Indian moviesAmey used to tape them from the TV while she cleanedAnd I thought back to the orange carpets...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:28:00 GMT

At the Museum of Natural History

Love is a tyrannous prince Jalal al-din Rumi As we both look up at the Tyrannosaurus Rexits bones painted black its danger extinctI can hear the sounds of children echo throughout the museumAnd we are...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:44:00 GMT

Your Lock

Your lock is more delightful to me than a hundred keys Jalal al-din Rumi It is the missing clasp of your body that shudders me awake, and before I fall asleep,I replay all the tightly wound metal of ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:41:00 GMT

my first punk poem song

So Stas and I have been fooling around (musically) in his studio. I had a poem that never worked as a poem and together we made it into a punk song. It's pretty ridiculous. But here it is. Once I ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:21:00 GMT