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Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
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
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.
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Gerard Van der Leun
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I guess BL don’t M.
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Here’s the thing;
CCP Lied and People Died All Over the World!
This statement has greater resonance…and it is factually more accurate.
It’s about time someone did this. We need more of it!
In China, year of the rat.
Kinda appropriate:)
Great billboard!
Good sign and it should be the first thing we look at in the morning and the last thing we look at before we turn in at night but every American I know appears to have already largely forgotten this attack and they’re just happy to be walking around in the glow of their newly acquired release from lockdown…er, freedom.
I’ll wager that people will drive by that sign every day on the way to Walmart or Target and think, “yeah, ain’t that the truth” and then they’ll load up their shopping carts with shit from China and never give it a second thought.
We need one of them in Arizona.
In 2001 the US gov’t did NOT do it’s most important job and thousands of people in the US and all over the world died as a result.
20 years later, again, the US gov’t did NOT do it’s most important job and thousands of people in the US died.
When is enough, enough?
Hey, I live about an hour away from Delmont! Go PA!
CCP Lied and People Died All Over the World!
Doesn’t really make you pat your foot, does it?
ghostsniper:
In 2001, the US government failed TWICE.
Once by letting the 9/11 attack happen. And again, once having allowed that, by not responding appropriately as soon as it was known who the perps were. Which I believe was vey quickly indeed.
Having established that, there should have been two fresh Trinitite deposits in Saudi Arabia.
Neither phrases causes me to tap my foot.
However, as I said; “CCP Lied and People Died All Over the World!”, is more accurate and I believe carries greater gravitas.
Saying, “China Lied and Americans Died”, is far too narrow an indictment. So much so that it sounds like a fucking political ad and thus, takes away from the seriousness of a Global Pandemic.
Kevin, You can always purchase an ad anywhere you like and put what you think is relevant on it. This ad is specifically for America. Joe Krill
Thanks Joe!