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So I was reminiscing about the Bus Pamphlets
the ones with arabic songs and poetry left on city bus seats and bus stops, I believe in Atlanta. Got to remember a few things written down ten years ago, ah, the bad old days. But the new/old lynch mob … Continue reading
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Tagged actions, AIG, America, Arabic, Campaign, children, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Crime, enforcement, FLAME, forest, hate crimes, hate speech, Hatred, Honey, IRA, Iran, Jackass, Left, Lynch, Lynch Mob Mentality, Murder, Murders, New York, New York City, Pagan, Poetry, Pot, President, Propaganda, racist, Songs, terror, Terrorism, trial, Trump, White, White House
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Pablo Neruda; the poet US Right Wingers hate the most
“While I’m writing, I’m far away; and when I come back, I’ve gone.” – Pablo Neruda
Genocide
When I was a young hoodlum, I plagiarized a bit of prose poetry with something like this at its core in order to make myself look cool. As an officially legal adult I’ve lost interest in how things look and … Continue reading
Willie and Waylon and Some Other Dude: A story about weed, marriage, and Texas tall tales, Part 2
For you, Willie. God bless the Hell out of ya! Alright, so this is all the same thought and I’m just thinkering around with it some for y’all. And it’s all bullshit. I bet some of y’all forgot this … Continue reading
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a poem for the holidays
The Art of Disappearing When they say, “Don’t I know you?” Say “no”. When they invite you to the party Remember what parties are like Before answering. Someone telling you in a loud voice They once wrote a poem. … Continue reading
A 1930 Spirit of Christmas Past
Black Agenda Report revisited this Christmas poem by Langston Hughes: “Merry Christmas”: Published in New Masses (Dec. 1930), p. 4. Merry Christmas, China, From the gun-boats in the river, Ten-inch shells for Christmas gifts, And peace on earth forever. Merry … Continue reading
Owl City writes lyrics most foul, shitty
That’s it, I’ve hit my generation gap with new music. Jonas Brothers I could abide, and Hannah, Britney, Hanson and the boy bands, because pop is fun. But holy mother of god Owl City’s lyrics are AWFUL. Generations older than … Continue reading
Posted in Semantics
Tagged Adam Young, Bing, BOA, candy, CIA, Cult, David, Democracy, DIME, Drug, Drugs, Education, Esau, Fire, Fun, God, Horror, insane, Intel, IOC, Jonas Brothers, Loose Change, Lyrics, Music, New World Order, NSA, Owl City, PLO, Poetry, Pop Culture, Pop Music, Rome, Rove, Songs, Stupid, Taste, The The, trial, Twilight, Voice, Wine
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Walt Whitman was not Grandpa Moses
A new Levi’s commercial overlays Walt Whitman’s O PIONEERS on scenes of fashion-conscious youth, distilling substance like just another stylizing element. It reminds me of the false portraits our society is content to hang over its radicals. This week, a … Continue reading
Richard Brautigan was my favorite Beatle
You know you’re a Post- Baby Boomer when you had to learn that Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was not an Elton John song. I remember being told by a nanny that you liked either the Monkeys or the … Continue reading
History Begins at Sumer
I’m reading about the Sumarians (5,300 – 2,000 B.C.) FROM THE TABLETS OF SUMER: 39 Firsts in Man’s Recorded History. The Sumarians originated civilization as we know it, and their demise may look a lot like ours too. In case … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop, agriculture, Animal, Apple, ARN, Art, Assyriology, Axe, Bush, Chants, CIA, Civil War, Civilization, Congress, Cosmo, Cradle of Civilization, Cult, Culture, Education, Ethics, Fish, Fun, funeral, Games, George, GIs, God, Gold, Golden, Government, historian, History, IRA, Iraq, IRS, Justice, Literature, Love, Marriage, Medicine, Messiah, MIA, Moses, Noah, Origin, Peace, philosophy, PLO, Poetry, Pot, Prince, Race, reform, Rove, Samuel Noah Kramer, School, sex, Smog, Sumerians, Tax, War, world peace, Writing
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Harold Pinter on drama and US banditry
“What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days – conscience? A conscience to do not only with our own acts … Continue reading
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Staging Homer for Generation Simpson
THE ODYSSEY, A STAGE VERSION- Greek myth would be no more complicated than JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, or GRG Lucas, but I suspect that to impress Homer unto modern audiences might have the disagreeable consequence of educating them. This weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Art, children, CIA, Civilization, College, Colorado, Colorado College, Corn, Education, Euro, Europe, God, Harry Potter, heroes, Homer, Imperial, Imperialism, Interest, IRS, Literature, Lord of the Rings, Misogyny, Myth, Odysseus, Odyssey, PLO, plots, Poetry, Simpsons, Star Wars, students, Tolkien, Totalitarian, Totalitarianism, Ulysses, War, Western, Western Civilization
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Marianne Moore’s Utopian Turtletop
In the mid-fifties the newly-public Ford Motor Company sought a name for its soon-to-be-released experimental car, known in its design stage as the E-car. After in-house marketers came up with 300-odd names which were felt to be embarrassing in their … Continue reading
Who did not play Faust for George Bush
I’d like to compile a collection of letters from famous personages in which they decline to dance with the Bush Administration. Were there many? Shouldn’t any artist/musician/author or intellectual/humanitarian of note have publicly refused to collaborate with the immoral tyrant … Continue reading
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Poolside haiku
a swirling eddy / frothy seaweed eyes emerge / disembodied head
The Man With a Hoe
THE MAN WITH A HOE THE MAN WITH A HOE Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back, the burden of … Continue reading
Whose turn is it on Afghanistan’s plains?
It was a hard lesson for the Soviets, and before them the Soldiers of the Queen. I think Kipling’s advice bears repeating as we consider that American casualties are on the rise in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the Forgotten Campaign of … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, AIG, America, American, Bear, Bears, British, British Empire, Campaign, Casualties, Crocodile, Global War on Terror, Kip, Left, Literature, Poetry, pool, Rudyard Kipling, soldier, Soldiers, Soviets, Wounded
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Global economic rapists are at it again
Why protest the G8 Summit July 7-9? Those hoodlums always look so determined. Here’s the rationale by the Emergency Exit Collective: The 2008 G8 on Hokkaido, a Strategic Assessment Emergency Exit Collective Bristol, Mayday, 2008 The authors of this document … Continue reading
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Battlefield without Borders a reading
An excerpt from STANDING THERE, After the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, June, 2006 Days before, Rachael had told a story. It seemed simple then. “A bug flew into my eye while I played soccer. For a full minute, … Continue reading
Poetry Slams slam poetry
Poetry Slams have reduced our most elevated literary genre to the arena of Hallmark Cards. Can you imagine compelling Longfellow to extemporize on the spot, faced with one-upping a fast-rapping carnival barker? Perhaps Oscar Wilde could have risen to the … Continue reading
Eyes Wide Open for friends only
An Air Force soldier participated in our candlelight vigil tonight. A vigil held at the Colorado Springs Eyes Wide Open Exhibit, for the lives lost in the Iraq War. He spoke about losing a close friend, and about his friends … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Force, Art, Bear, Casualties, CIA, College, Colorado, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, EWO, Eyes Wide Open, Fish, IRA, Iraq, Iraq War, Military, PLO, Poetry, soldier, Special Forces, students, Thinking, USA, War, Water
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Vaneigem on energy as commodity
NMT’s in-house Situationist has been conceptualizing a way forward well expressed in this May 2009 interview of Raoul Vaneigem: “We are being “offered” biofuels on the condition we agree to transgenic rapeseed farming. Eco-tourism will accelerate the plundering of our … Continue reading →