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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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Great clips of Joe O’Biden, talking puppet of Xi Jinping.
Could only watch about 30 seconds worth.
I’ve never seen video of that person before, is that how he always is?
American politics are far worse than I thought.
But then, the gov’t debt is far worse than anyone can imagine.
Since citizens didn’t borrow the gov’t debt, citizens aren’t responsible for it.
Since there are only 537 national politicians how do you suppose they are going to pay back all the money the gov’t has borrowed?
The debates. My God….the humanity!!!
What is it, dementia? Who will prop up this fool if he wins? May not last long if the VP is Kamela. Please Lord, have mercy on this country. We repent of our sins.
The irony is that he is the best candidate. That is considering what they all promise to do Biden would do the least harm to the Republic. Having said that I do think Biden is the stalking horse. I think Biden WILL win the presidency (because the Democrats will steal the elections in the five largest states). His running mate will be a far left radical woman of color. And after a few months he will give up his presidency to the Vice President and then the shit will hit the fan.
He’s clean and as articulate as Obama wuwuwuwuwuzzz.
This is Aphasia, and its elder abuse to keep putting Joe out there.
I suspect its to soak up moderate money to the DNC which will be re-doled out when he steps down, as planned, prior to the nomination. The most likely benefactor- Kamala Harris.
http://www.alzheimersweekly.com/2013/08/aphasia-in-dementia-word-jumbles.html
Hey, it worked for Obama – categorically the worst public speaker ever to run for pres.
‘Course Joe ain’t colored.
Biden’s inarticulateness as a presidential candidate brought to mind a Richard Brautigan poem about a husband whose wife is quite plain-looking, yet that her vagina serves as the perfect screen for the husband’s sexual fantasies, which forms the husband’s rationale for wedding and staying true to his plain Jane wife. I see Biden in a way akin to that. Biden is the superficially harmless, mumbling blank screen through which the radicals, the Left, the loons can project their narcissistic and hateful fantasies while a President Biden would, while mouthing platitudinous gibberish, allow all the useful idiots and the Globo-Capitali$t-Corporate $ellout$ who fund them to do as they please with Open Border$, with muzzling dissenters, and with endless HateWhitey-ism. That’s why I think that Biden is more dangerous than the other, ostentatiously radical Democrat contenders. He’d serve the same empty suit role that Obama filled, as a mere blank screen, or empty suit, through which the barbarians get on with their destruction of what’s left of what used to be our country, and of what’s left of what used to be Christendom/Western Civilization.
Nancy Pelosi’s long lost brother. The nuts are running the asylum.
There will be a dark horse candidate. Biden’s son and China will take him out of the race
Here’s how it is, and you know it’s true. The dems meeting is a coven of witches and warlocks (except non-binarily identified), in a (weed) smoke-filled room, and they select some dupe for each race, all the way down to dog-catcher. I just drove by a sign in the Seattle area where the guy running for councilman in, I would guess, a 70% to maybe 90% white city, had an Ethiopian, multi-syllabic name. Boodunstar Uffizzman, or some shit like that. Sh’yeah. That’s the guy they’re running for councilman. Some shitstain dude whose whole platform is an exact copy of the dem platform nation-wide.
No thanks, dems. As I drove back home and out of the urban blight, I went through the rural part of King (Seattle) County. Horse-ranch style properties with nice homes and moderately low density. Every one of them defended by some kind of firearm and you know that’s the gawdamned truth. But, the guys on the city council? Liberal anti-americans, hand-picked by the politicos who make up the Democrat Party.
I looked intently at the face of the person starring in these video clips, and tried, without success to connect it with the person formerly known as “Joe Biden.” Has that person been replaced by some doppelganger or is it merely that all the plastic surgery has transformed his visage such that it is no longer recognizable as the same person once serving as a Senator from Delaware? I would not want to be standing in front of him when the sutures holding up the face lift fail catastrophically.
rabbit: indeed. Really dark, and hung like a horse: Mooch, Mike, Chewbacca, The First WokeScold, Barry’s husband.
My secret, unrealizable hope is for Marianne Williamson to be nominated.
I would pay good money to see her debate President Trump.
Orange Man vs. Cat Lady -CAGE MATCH!
It’s like he was bitten in the neck by Bacack Obama during a teleprompter outage.