Two types of people. This guy, and the people who aren't this guy pic.twitter.com/rSDdar7Jf7
— Adam Townsend (@adamscrabble) April 11, 2020
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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
Gary Snyder
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
— BY THEODORE ROETHKE
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Gerard Van der Leun
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“There’s too much information out there!”, and most of it is bullshit.
To a hammer, everything is a nail.
To an epidemiologist everything is a plague.
Happy Easter, everyone.
Funny.
Happy Easter good souls.
My comment is that the pro epidemiologists (hey I spelled it right first time!) aren’t doing much better. Some of them are so full of it, they have become armchair bureaucrats themselves. God help us.
This is so true. None of those people in NY City are dead, right?
Anon, I guess you’re trying to exaggerate to illustrate a point.
What is bothersome is the extremes of the models and the decisions taken. The politicking (like the
Drudge headline now about “Fauci Unloads,” which is complete bullshit it didn’t happen. He was pressed in CNN on a hypothetical and he carefully answered it without any recrimination of Trump. FFS the point could’ve been to say if we’d closed to China let’s say before the outbreak what would’ve happened? Media and political operators are running crazy now, and we are all on edge because we can’t get the news.
On point: the models are poor, and I note the key one supposedly came out of the UW, which is a freakhole of the first order. The actual numbers are lower by a longways than the models used; I would like to see a side by side vis the common flu last year at the same time. It may seriously be close.
Further, if you go into the hospital with a gunshot sucking chest wound, and a dry cough, it is entered as a Coronavirus death. Bill Gates wants to mark you like the Beast would, and subtly drops how this is a great time to cull the surplus masses of the world. Filthy people! I once had his life in my hands, BTW. Regrets…
OK, I exaggerate, too. NYC looks bad, and I am not denying the pandemic is a thing. I am just looking in detail as best I can at the responses. Some of the government stuff looks Machiavellian. Make that Draconian. I like the stories of how libs are buying guns in huge numbers, and are finding out the laws their politicians have made to restrict their access to their 2A rights are onerous. Dumshitz.
I am staying in. My guns are all loaded and not locked up (I deny what I just wrote it is of course against the law.ahem) figuratively speaking. No one comes to my door. My freezer is full of venison, and in a couple of days it is legal to harvest a couple of turkeys.
Doctors have a God Complex. Gubmint leaders think they are immune from constitutional restrictions. News media are lying sacxofsh!t. Liberals are retarded in the Nth degree.
Sadly there are 2 types of people; that guy and all of the other folks in the world that are like that guy, excepting me, and maybe you. &, of course, I’m not so sure about you. 😉
Casey, I saw evidence of Bill Gates’ desire to take steps to reduce world populations and I thought, yeah, just like Ghost advised…be on the lookout for the turds who stand to make money off of human peril because they’ll float to the top. He was dead right.
Gates has money and presumably a lot of power but he is essentially a cowardly fk without the balls to walk up to anything greater than a 10 year old child and present his desires for human population control. At least not while the kids’s protector is standing around to use his head for a mop and his butt for a broom. Gates wouldn’t last 5 seconds with some of the chaps I know and his odds might only be slightly greater from a 70 year old arthritic, like me.
He’s not one shit different from every other oligarchical illuminati minded maggot and if American’s ever wake the fuck up and realize what is going on, the bombing of Dresden will look like puppy poop compared to what enraged American men will do to these guys.
Casey sed: “…in a couple of days it is legal to harvest a couple of turkeys.”
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As if. LOL
I’m pretty certain you’ll use turkeys as you see fit, regardless of tyrants, just like any sane person would. Saw a few turkeys out back a few days ago. I won’t hurt them. As long as buy-able grub is available.