Mariette Papic

I showed up around eight in the evening. It took me a long time to get over there. I made tea. I tried to make money by keeping up my social media and other web clients. I talked to a friend, stared at the window and spent time petting the cats. I was nervous, maybe, [...]

“Rubies drip to the earth, the berth of bleeding flowers…” that’s what I saw standing on the rocks in my father’s village in Croatia. I learned about politics early. Perhaps it’s one of the ways that I can be distinguished from many of my fellow Americans, since my parents weren’t born or raised here, so [...]

Wow, I received a genuine surprise today when someone new to soundcloud found my work and took me up on my creative commons licensing of it. His remix of Version 2.0 is pretty cool,

Version 2.0 is a poem from Electric Bathtub Pslams. If you want the audio track here it is, available for you to remix. The words were mine, the recording is yours. Have fun. Share a link if you use it. Creative Commons Licensing. Version 2.0 Last night a nation grew inside me I can see [...]