WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
Gerard Van der Leun
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
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They certainly are an unattractive bunch. Why is that do you suppose? I’ll say this for them- they’re all very impressed with their own intelligence. Especially that kid in the striped shirt. He needs his goofy head stuffed in a toilet bowl.
JWM
Are you suggesting that his head will work as a toilet brush?
You are right.
Vacuous, vain, pompous fakers, PP (Pseudo People). Excellent sample of the D-Generation of the nation.
Dumber than disconnected fire hydrants dog-whistling, “Pee on me.”
I suspect these were graduate students, given their well-considered comments.
Toilet Brush is a good example of the first wave of fodder.
Why don’t you self-important nozzles gather 6 or 30 of your like-minded rimming partners and create your own commune? “Workers own the means of production” philosophy and “equal say in all decisions” with no “white supremacy” in sight. After all, since your view of the future takes in to account the lessons of the past NOT AT ALL, you should be free to form a much better, more fair, and more efficient social network than all the oppressive fascists that came before.
Start on the first of the month and we’ll check back on your success, freedom from discordance, social harmony, and absence of jealousy, anger, and envy in about 3 months.
Deal?
I saw over at Stiltons’ that President Trump picked this year’s Miss America. Man was that ever an out of left field choice.
But leave it to The Boss, eh?
Pathological liars are dangerous, very dangerous.
There is a weird sort of sense to the vid, they are showing (without realizing it) that they are predisposed to oppose ANY candidate Trump nominates. He could name Hillary Clinton (perish the thought) and they would protest that.
How does the interviewer not say, “Have you even read the Constitution?”
An old traveling salesman joke tells of a guy having a flat tire on a country road at sundown and finding he had no tire tool. Remembering the farm house back down the road, he sets out walking to borrow a tire tool. As he walks, he imagines all the things that are going to go wrong when he gets to the house: the dogs are going to come after him, he might get shot for approaching the house after dark, the farmer will be so angry for being awakened he won’t loan him the tool. He finally arrives at the farm house, and he’s made himself so angry at the farmer he picks up a rock and throws it through the upstairs bedroom window. Looking out the window, the farmer sees a man standing in the road, shaking his fist at him, and screaming: “Just keep your damned tire tool!”.
Prejudice is a self-inflicted wound.
I want to see the video when he tells these pretentious propagandized geniuses what ignorant tools they are. I want to see an NHL-style reality check into the boards that launches them up into the cheap seats. Shame and humiliation is what they need, badly.
And keep in mind that these are selected from the ones that knew what a “Supreme Court Justice” is!
Remember when ignorance was no excuse?
Mark Dice has a number of videos that come under the “sadly hilarious” label. It’s hard to believe that so many people are so uninformed and ignorant, but it’s true!
Saddest of all, it’s the people who think they’re educated that are the worst offenders.
Watering Crops With Brawndo Energy Drink:
https://youtu.be/hRn5N4q9kYE
Left wing pinko marxist commie trash. Pulled that out of the way back machine.
I was going to write that these are the people who will someday wield authority in our government and institutions but that would be to ignore the fact that people with very similar educations and outlooks and certainly no more intelligent or capable as these have been running the government and many major institutions for at least a generation.