WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Only By Fire is Fascism Finished
byVanderleunonAugust 5, 2017
“Vietnam—this wretched unfashionable war led by clumsy Presidents from the West and fought by the nineteen-year-old sons of the poor—could not be disowned by a favored enlightened few hiding behind college deferments, fleeing to chaste cool countries, snootily pouring pig blood into draft files, writing unctuous peacenik Notes and Comments, and otherwise pretending that our great nation hadn’t had bloody hands from the start, that every generation didn’t have its war, that bloody hands didn’t go with having hands at all.”John Updike: On Not Being a Dove
Year upon year in this world’s dark forests,
Heaped at the foot of the trees,
The tangles and bundles of dead brush increase
Which sunlight shall never seize.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by book, chant and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
The ash that descends in the clearest of skies?
The leapers that swam down the stones?
Best answered by bombs from mid-heaven at prayer
With the fire that hollows the bones.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by book, chant and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
If their god decrees war, God’s war shall prevail.
His lessons are seared in the stone.
No dreams shall defer, nor wishes erase,
The answer that’s burned in the bone.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by book, chant and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
Only by fire is fascism finished.
This sin is demanded that your line may live.
Only through fire is freedom reborn.
Each generation pulls the sword from the stone.
Quite a poem. Updike’s piece on Vietnam always rips me to pieces.
NoriAugust 5, 2017, 9:40 PM
And prescient: “For years, I carried in my wallet,like a fortune-cookie slip somehow more than amusing,a statement from the underground Weathermen: “We are against everything that’s good and decent in honky America. We will loot, burn, and destroy. We are the incubation of your mother’s nightmare.”
Mission accomplished. Chicago style. Rainbowman Extraordinaire,in spades. The evil these people encapsulate.
Honkys beware.
Howard NelsonAugust 6, 2017, 8:27 AM
Fascism rises like Phoenix
From ashes alive though cold.
Waiting, hooded, cold-hearted
‘Til our center no longer does hold.
Already here, sporting stylish padded gloves….that are wearing thin.
Howard NelsonAugust 6, 2017, 6:44 PM
It’s really sad simple. The young and old unwilling or unable to be self-reliant, cede their care to government.
The government, quickly or gradually, takes from its dependents a greater and greater stake.
Fascism, Socialism, Nazism, Communism are just different names for different styles and degrees of coercive care by government.
Democracy, without enforced constitutional equal protections for all, devolves into tyranny.
Our robot rulers will eventually program themselves to be firm, fair, wise, and loving.
We will be grateful or we will not be.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
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Gerard Van der Leun
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see what you can make of this
https://mishtalk.com/2017/08/05/california-has-11-counties-with-more-registered-voters-than-voting-age-citizens-registered-voters-144-of-egilibility/
Quite a poem. Updike’s piece on Vietnam always rips me to pieces.
And prescient: “For years, I carried in my wallet,like a fortune-cookie slip somehow more than amusing,a statement from the underground Weathermen: “We are against everything that’s good and decent in honky America. We will loot, burn, and destroy. We are the incubation of your mother’s nightmare.”
Mission accomplished. Chicago style. Rainbowman Extraordinaire,in spades. The evil these people encapsulate.
Honkys beware.
Fascism rises like Phoenix
From ashes alive though cold.
Waiting, hooded, cold-hearted
‘Til our center no longer does hold.
Fascism. Fashion. Fashioism. Fascisista. Fascioni. Fashionista. Fashifascia. Fasci-fasci.
It’s a mutable word. Changing right now as we speak. Coming to a civilization near you.
Already here, sporting stylish padded gloves….that are wearing thin.
It’s really sad simple. The young and old unwilling or unable to be self-reliant, cede their care to government.
The government, quickly or gradually, takes from its dependents a greater and greater stake.
Fascism, Socialism, Nazism, Communism are just different names for different styles and degrees of coercive care by government.
Democracy, without enforced constitutional equal protections for all, devolves into tyranny.
Our robot rulers will eventually program themselves to be firm, fair, wise, and loving.
We will be grateful or we will not be.
When everyone’s a fascist, no one’s a fascist.
Laugh at them. Keep laughing as they bleed out. Then reload.