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The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
— Robert Frost
April is over. May moon.
How many more for my regard,
hundreds, a handful?
Better not trouble the dark water due north of north.
Better to concentrate on something close, something small.
This stick, for instance. This word.
–Charles Wright
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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I am still dumbfounded that Democrats openly support socialism/communism and hardly any Democrats stand up to disagree.
No need to be *dumbfounded* concerning democrats. They. Are. Dumb. All of them are actually, stupid. This includes the imbeciles who vote for them, including the dead voters. This means around 50% of the voters in the US are stupid. Incurably stupid.
I’ve talked directly to a guy like this. His story is even better. He was interred in a Nazi prison camp in Sweden (I know Sweden was “neutral,” but he was arrested as a kid for underground sympathies), and they would make up songs about how someday the Americans would come and rescue them. On their day of release, they stood around trying to sing their national anthem, but weakness prevented it.
The American idea of personal freedom is a bell ringing throughout the world. The dems cannot defeat this idea.
I’m with you, Casey. Back in the early ’70s I worked for a guy in Chicago, a guitar-maker, who with his wife had escaped Communist Serbia by running across the border, at night, dodging spotlights and guards with guns. When I met him 13 years later he owned his third successively-larger building and was making plans to retire to someplace with more sunshine.
There were hippies around who made the mistake of promoting socialism in his presence. Once.
“This means around 50% of the voters in the US are stupid. Incurably stupid.”
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I think your estimation is off by about 100%.