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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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At least that MF is honest.
They couldn’t find a transgender BIPOC to be the spokescritter?
I can’t remember the last time I heard so much truth in less than a minute and a half.
“Body by Zuckerberg”
That cracked me up. But there has to be a special name for this kind of laughter. It’s like the mirror image of schadenfreude.
JWM
What jmw said. Brings the truth.
Sooooooo true.
One of the very few drawbacks of living in a remote rural area is that we here have our choice of ONE ISP. Spectrum, and they SUCK. Really, really suck.
First 12 months- affordable and halfway reliable. After that, it doubled in price, and they started throttling. So I dumped the cable TV & internet package, and just went for internet- since I’ve got a Roku TV.
Then they jacked up the internet charges by 50%. Bastards…
Then they found out I use a VOIP phone (internet phone) instead of a landline, and said it “violated the contract terms” and would be charging me extra. So I lied, and told them I discontinued use of the VOIP phone, and they shut up about it. (I still use it!)
Recently, they mailed (and emailed) me this super-duper announcement that “my internet speed just DOUBLED, and at NO EXTRA COST!” WOW!
Except I tested it out, and the speed is the exact same. They lied. Bastards….
I really can’t complain too much, as I’m getting a gazillion TV stations, 1MB internet, and a home phone, all for $80.00 per month.
Spectrum still sucks, though.
Nice timing, yesterday I went with my girlfriend to see Comcast in the NE. I bought her streaming sticks for her two TV’s and we were returning the adapters that had connected them directly to cable.
She got the adapters a few years ago when Comcast began encrypting all the channels, that’s all the adapters do; they de-crypt the encrypted signal. When she initially installed (actually I did) the adapters they were ‘Free’.
A year later they suddenly weren’t ‘Free’ but $7.50 a month, each! So, two streaming sticks at $40 each, one time and there’s $15 bucks a month shaved off the bill.
But that’s about it, she’d get rid of the cable tv altogether but she loves watching the Hallmark channel, which doesn’t stream. This is why I’m wondering about the push to force Hallmark to make totally Gay and Transexual characterized movies, if they succeed then I think she’ll finally totally drop Cable TV.
Her new bill, with the $15 off, is $180/month. They pump it up any higher and maybe Elon Musk’s Starlink service might be something to think about. It already costs her more than either the electric or fuel bills. Which is really obscene if you think about it.
Oh, the wonders of American-style capitalism…
For John the River. I just looked on the internet and Roku has an offering called frndly.tv that says that they have the Hallmark channels live and several others for 5.99 a month. One time fee for the Roku and it streams quite well for me. The frndly folks say theu have a 3 day free trial, you can watch anything in the last three days anytime, and a cloud based DVR.
I cannot vouch for the service, but you might look into it. If you have already and it failed, sorry to have bothered you. I have commented a couple of times on here and been pilloried for making a simple suggestion. So, YMMV.
Good luck.