Propitiation is as old as crop failure
Seek a god to placate-offer tithes or child sacrifice
For wars(Mars),sacrifice your first born.For Mammon,sacrifice your income
Andes altars find corn and children dressed to offer up
to Ceres,Demeter or local harvest gods.Sacrifice is Old Dispensation.
Armies of Children in the Congo.Child soldiers /suicide bombers.
Paradise deferred till death.Lalita Tati was 7 when her liver was sliced open
in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.Appeasing gods
by spilling blood is ancient.New gods of science and crop management
still do not work against drought-and death visits non-discriminatorily.(North Korea)
All we petition is to save the children.Elders can offer themselves
Human sacrifice worse than blood of ritual chicken or pig
What we do not understand is this primal blood need
For Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac-for god to send his only son
to die /why? to propitiate our needs-to be redeemed?
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
i have loved a cat
she died,and left me longing
so i loved another cat-who disappeared
and whose memory is a photograph
and cat litter box still waiting
my third lovecat does not use a box
she roams our neighborhood furry,fanged and free
she comes when she needs,eats and then leaves
This is fine by me-better a free love
than one of need
so i loved another cat-who disappeared
and whose memory is a photograph
and cat litter box still waiting
my third lovecat does not use a box
she roams our neighborhood furry,fanged and free
she comes when she needs,eats and then leaves
This is fine by me-better a free love
than one of need
"Truth is always in exile"
"i will always be a wanderer."
There is no silence in cities
Lightglow destroys the silence of stars
Machines steal focus from our body politic
Kasparov lost to Big Blue.Who thought it?
Plato in a garden.Text now a message.
Pleasures of slow now fast mind food.
Philosophy meets science.Conjugates.Divorces.
Art gasps/grasps verities as fiction/flash!
Word now novel-marketed via e machines
Heraclitus as fragmentary as Kerouac
Sappho slandered posthumously(needs new Agent!
Sylvia Plath outlasts her fame/husband
Russia corrupts Dostoevsky
Revolution empowers Fascism.Ghettos /prison camps await
Renaissance,Restoration,Revolution,Revivalism?Romanticism!
Austerity,post-Authority,Authoritarianism!Amen!
There is no silence in cities
Lightglow destroys the silence of stars
Machines steal focus from our body politic
Kasparov lost to Big Blue.Who thought it?
Plato in a garden.Text now a message.
Pleasures of slow now fast mind food.
Philosophy meets science.Conjugates.Divorces.
Art gasps/grasps verities as fiction/flash!
Word now novel-marketed via e machines
Heraclitus as fragmentary as Kerouac
Sappho slandered posthumously(needs new Agent!
Sylvia Plath outlasts her fame/husband
Russia corrupts Dostoevsky
Revolution empowers Fascism.Ghettos /prison camps await
Renaissance,Restoration,Revolution,Revivalism?Romanticism!
Austerity,post-Authority,Authoritarianism!Amen!
TRIAL VIA MEDIA
Guilty before trial!-scream newspaper headlines
Targeting individuals and presuming guilt pre-trial
"Any statement you make will be used against you"(and it is
Miranda needs to warn junk journalists against presumptions of guilt
Julian Assange confined for alleged sex offenses
Al Capone jailed for tax offenses not racketeering
Targeting "persons of interest"evokes Alice in Wonderland
"First the EXECUTION-then the sentence!
"No! No!(says Alice)-surely you mean -"first the sentence-then the execution?
"I AM THE QUEEN AROUND HERE!"states the Red Queen-OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Young PFC Bradley solitary confinement -punished before proof of Wikileaks
Punished for his sexual status rather than specific offenses?
Justice miscarried=justice denied/targeting and scapegoating
Witch hunts and witch burnings are still alive
Where is Joan of arc when we need her most?
She was young,too-and targeted for her sexual status.
Targeting individuals and presuming guilt pre-trial
"Any statement you make will be used against you"(and it is
Miranda needs to warn junk journalists against presumptions of guilt
Julian Assange confined for alleged sex offenses
Al Capone jailed for tax offenses not racketeering
Targeting "persons of interest"evokes Alice in Wonderland
"First the EXECUTION-then the sentence!
"No! No!(says Alice)-surely you mean -"first the sentence-then the execution?
"I AM THE QUEEN AROUND HERE!"states the Red Queen-OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Young PFC Bradley solitary confinement -punished before proof of Wikileaks
Punished for his sexual status rather than specific offenses?
Justice miscarried=justice denied/targeting and scapegoating
Witch hunts and witch burnings are still alive
Where is Joan of arc when we need her most?
She was young,too-and targeted for her sexual status.
"LAW IS FOR PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE"
Possee Comitatus violated in Waco
CIA targeted assassinations continuing(confirmed and denied)
Drones daily killing civilians(Trial by Death)
TSA regular physical assaults on children and elderly
NYPD targeting Muslims in a racist violation of privacy laws
FBI still reading your emails/listening to your phone calls
APD still shooting blacks in Austin.
Private security forces still killing civilians in Iraq/Afghanistan
Bill of Rights constantly violated.No Habeas Corpus(high bail for poor folk)
Too many executed found innocent via DNA posthumously.
Youths abused in State Institutions-often locked in with adult felons
Recidivism.Why ?=No rehabilitation.Privitized (for -profit)prisons
Before you read me my Miranda Rights-
what Rights are left to defend me -from bad laws
and overpaid ,unprofessional police?
CIA targeted assassinations continuing(confirmed and denied)
Drones daily killing civilians(Trial by Death)
TSA regular physical assaults on children and elderly
NYPD targeting Muslims in a racist violation of privacy laws
FBI still reading your emails/listening to your phone calls
APD still shooting blacks in Austin.
Private security forces still killing civilians in Iraq/Afghanistan
Bill of Rights constantly violated.No Habeas Corpus(high bail for poor folk)
Too many executed found innocent via DNA posthumously.
Youths abused in State Institutions-often locked in with adult felons
Recidivism.Why ?=No rehabilitation.Privitized (for -profit)prisons
Before you read me my Miranda Rights-
what Rights are left to defend me -from bad laws
and overpaid ,unprofessional police?
TORTURE PORN
Censored dog attacks upon Iraqi prisoners
stacked in obscene positions by smiling guards
Our comparisons Nazis.Our CIA waterboarding.
Torture reports redacted .Cameras banned from prisons.
TSA shakedowns of children/elderly on YOUTUBE
Pepper spray and TAZERS @Universities.
Value clash?or agents voluntary? Plato's REPUBLIC
would ask"who polices the police?" Tweets
and digital pix of police brutalities stack high
No jury convicts even with eyewitnesses
Civil actions,sometimes discipline,rarely suspension
USE OF FORCE as per regulations-
still the shooting of children/civilians
No video turned on.No repercussions.
OCCUPY folk brutalized.Reporters assaulted/arrested.
Rule of Law exempts those authorized DEADLY FORCE.
Osama murdered on video-same with Gaddafi and Hussein
All the images of Syria/Iran/North Korea will not change
military dictatorships to civilian oversight.Even if you do not watch
you know one of us is being tortured tonight.Who is next?
stacked in obscene positions by smiling guards
Our comparisons Nazis.Our CIA waterboarding.
Torture reports redacted .Cameras banned from prisons.
TSA shakedowns of children/elderly on YOUTUBE
Pepper spray and TAZERS @Universities.
Value clash?or agents voluntary? Plato's REPUBLIC
would ask"who polices the police?" Tweets
and digital pix of police brutalities stack high
No jury convicts even with eyewitnesses
Civil actions,sometimes discipline,rarely suspension
USE OF FORCE as per regulations-
still the shooting of children/civilians
No video turned on.No repercussions.
OCCUPY folk brutalized.Reporters assaulted/arrested.
Rule of Law exempts those authorized DEADLY FORCE.
Osama murdered on video-same with Gaddafi and Hussein
All the images of Syria/Iran/North Korea will not change
military dictatorships to civilian oversight.Even if you do not watch
you know one of us is being tortured tonight.Who is next?
TALBUKJA/SAETEOMIN(another green world
Soft South Korean voices from a clandestine radio
Defectors wishing only to eat .Corrupt Communist military dictatorship
existing via vi et armis.Propaganda the diet.Punishment Camps for dissidents.
Bordered by South Korea,Russia,China-all exploiting refugees
Censorship controlling all/violence suppressing dissent.
Time capsule of a Cold war Armistice that never evolved to peace
Kidnappings,bombings,artillery shots,shootings across borders.
DMZ is a dead zone.All the GOOGLES of this world cannot expose
conditions of poverty and starvation that have killed millions over time.
How do you hug a corpse?How make peace with war?
What bribery makes atomic weapons safe?Who takes the first step?
As always-it is civilians who suffer.Army eats American rice
and makes their people prisoners.Even crossing any border is no guarantee of freedom.
Unless and until North Koreans are welcomed and integrated
liberation remains coal in Xmas stockings.Stoicism fails.Release all North Koreans!
Defectors wishing only to eat .Corrupt Communist military dictatorship
existing via vi et armis.Propaganda the diet.Punishment Camps for dissidents.
Bordered by South Korea,Russia,China-all exploiting refugees
Censorship controlling all/violence suppressing dissent.
Time capsule of a Cold war Armistice that never evolved to peace
Kidnappings,bombings,artillery shots,shootings across borders.
DMZ is a dead zone.All the GOOGLES of this world cannot expose
conditions of poverty and starvation that have killed millions over time.
How do you hug a corpse?How make peace with war?
What bribery makes atomic weapons safe?Who takes the first step?
As always-it is civilians who suffer.Army eats American rice
and makes their people prisoners.Even crossing any border is no guarantee of freedom.
Unless and until North Koreans are welcomed and integrated
liberation remains coal in Xmas stockings.Stoicism fails.Release all North Koreans!
LOVE IS AN OPEN MIKE
where every one is welcomed
and harmonies may be heard
with word and song and cadence
that illuminates our world
every one who enters
has a chance to be
center of attention
(at least,temporarily)
our footprints in the sand
our words within the wind
our fire hearts that warm
our spirit that sings
each a blade of grass or weed
enjoying simply-our right to be
and harmonies may be heard
with word and song and cadence
that illuminates our world
every one who enters
has a chance to be
center of attention
(at least,temporarily)
our footprints in the sand
our words within the wind
our fire hearts that warm
our spirit that sings
each a blade of grass or weed
enjoying simply-our right to be
ELDER RING
As we advance in years,a presumption occurs
that we are wise because we have survived.This is random
and our tiny lives could be snatched from us like a child's toy
by fates as anonymous as daily headlines.We are still here-
so folk of youth and fear ask HOW and WHY
We laugh,because of a certain rough spiritual equality
that means we all share breath,life,this planet
and will all leave here.Leaving ourselves here.
Consciousness is fleeting.Time is revealing.
For we have sat @elder's knee and asked for wisdom.
It did not come.Just sharing
what it is we all have right now -in common
Eldering.
that we are wise because we have survived.This is random
and our tiny lives could be snatched from us like a child's toy
by fates as anonymous as daily headlines.We are still here-
so folk of youth and fear ask HOW and WHY
We laugh,because of a certain rough spiritual equality
that means we all share breath,life,this planet
and will all leave here.Leaving ourselves here.
Consciousness is fleeting.Time is revealing.
For we have sat @elder's knee and asked for wisdom.
It did not come.Just sharing
what it is we all have right now -in common
Eldering.
love is
and we are made of water
all our world/liquid
where we came from(womb
where we are going(dry
whether we return(to learn
or no(know now!
this motion movement meaning
is this-love
is.
all our world/liquid
where we came from(womb
where we are going(dry
whether we return(to learn
or no(know now!
this motion movement meaning
is this-love
is.
My word for 2012: ALL!
"by any word necessary"-to expand consciousness via vocabulary
to add words,sounds,meanings,chants,mantras ,ululations
woven among necessary silences."All"may not even be "enough"
Any ,every and all modes of sound contact /communication makes much
of a wall or wave of energetics-year cycles swim in frequencies
such as dolphin play.Shark sharp meanings deep as time
may be found as sound and shared via rhyme."All"will be well
"Enough"is not enough/ in my mind...
to add words,sounds,meanings,chants,mantras ,ululations
woven among necessary silences."All"may not even be "enough"
Any ,every and all modes of sound contact /communication makes much
of a wall or wave of energetics-year cycles swim in frequencies
such as dolphin play.Shark sharp meanings deep as time
may be found as sound and shared via rhyme."All"will be well
"Enough"is not enough/ in my mind...
ONION RINGS
i think of life as food-
when young,fast and furious
stuffing as many FIRSTS into seconds
middle aged,minutes flash by faster
aged,the tick of extinction(impending
book of grand father clocks
you remember most/those holy moments
when attention is focused/stories bloom forth
like flowers from a garden of people
who reach out like the dying to be heard
i eat these stories.Once i paid folk on 6th street
to lie to me,so i could see if i could distinguish lie from truth
I still cannot.So when you spin dervish dancer-it is the flower of your smiling
that most attracts this bee to amber.
Ear to the ground.Eye through a keyhole.Nose to the wheel.Listening/witnessing
is what opens doorways to another/bridging lives in moments islands
They say an onion has many layers-just like people/their stories
are parables/fables/animating our shadow play
until we are both audience and actor,writing our scripts-
improvising olde nights,dreaming new days.
when young,fast and furious
stuffing as many FIRSTS into seconds
middle aged,minutes flash by faster
aged,the tick of extinction(impending
book of grand father clocks
you remember most/those holy moments
when attention is focused/stories bloom forth
like flowers from a garden of people
who reach out like the dying to be heard
i eat these stories.Once i paid folk on 6th street
to lie to me,so i could see if i could distinguish lie from truth
I still cannot.So when you spin dervish dancer-it is the flower of your smiling
that most attracts this bee to amber.
Ear to the ground.Eye through a keyhole.Nose to the wheel.Listening/witnessing
is what opens doorways to another/bridging lives in moments islands
They say an onion has many layers-just like people/their stories
are parables/fables/animating our shadow play
until we are both audience and actor,writing our scripts-
improvising olde nights,dreaming new days.
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