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“The weight of this sad time we must obey. / Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” — Lear
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“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
A Wicker Basket
Comes the time when it’s later
and onto your table the headwaiter
puts the bill, and very soon after
rings out the sound of lively laughter—
Picking up change, hands like a walrus,
and a face like a barndoor’s,
and a head without any apparent size,
nothing but two eyes—
So that’s you, man,
or me. I make it as I can,
I pick up, I go
faster than they know—
Out the door, the street like a night,
any night, and no one in sight,
but then, well, there she is,
old friend Liz—
And she opens the door of her cadillac,
I step in back,
and we’re gone.
She turns me on—
There are very huge stars, man, in the sky,
and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple pie,
with a gob of white, white ice cream on top of it,
and I eat it—
Slowly. And while certainly
they are laughing at me, and all around me is racket
of these cats not making it, I make it
in my wicker basket.
— BY ROBERT CREELEY
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Black Burgers Matter
Just found out about this amazing new restaurant called “Amplifying Black Voices” where you can buy non-racist hamburgers and anti-fascist milkshakes. pic.twitter.com/0JA1mELnYg
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 1, 2020
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Good Morning, indeed, Gerard. Act!
And a good morning it is! Thank you, sir.
Too much heroing going on.
Isn’t anyone normal any more?
Powerful.. Gerard, Thank you!
We’re all just Abby Normal,Ghost. 🤠
Wonderful Sunday morning wake-up,thank you Mr V.
Tickles me that the speaker of those powerful words is named Tom O’ Bedlam.
What a great name! Leave it to the Irish…
How did I get Anonymous? Guess I need another cup of Caffeine and Hate.
Awesome.
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,” Has been our toast for well over 15 years when we tip a glass during the break at our life drawing sessions.
& regarding the reader, Tom O’; https://poetsmusings-muser.blogspot.com/2010/07/tom-obedlam-reads-poetry.html
Hah,knew the name was too good to be true! Great link,thank you James.
I’m sorry that I have shitforbrains. All I can think of is how I dated his GGD, who bore the name Longfellow.