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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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ALL HAIL JOHN WARD!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_Vs7ln_N8&t=208s
Like I’ve said….It’s not their contemptible failure at simple arithmetic that’s troubling but it is an interesting anecdote that reflects the obvious failure of Head Start and Affirmative Action.
The troubling this is that this is the way these idiots think. They honestly believe that rich people, regardless of who they are or how they made their money, should simply give money to people to people. And “rich”, to these jack wagons, is anyone who has become successful.
These clods don’t want to work for it, risk for it, put skin in the game for it or any other thing. They look at guys like Trump or Bloomberg and any other person who has money and the first GD thing out of their mouths is that the rich should give their money to the “poor”, viz everyone who works to get through life by being a parasite.
And the US is full of the SOBS
Jack
I agree but… by the average Americans standards these morons are rich too and they produce nothing of value, they can’t even comment on the success of others correctly! I dislike Bloomberg but at least he has created something that people are willing to pay for which is more than anyone can say about these 2 cretins and their producers and editors who cleared this claptrap.
But…the science is on their side.
I missed this the first time through the gate. I don’t watch the news. That has done great things for my blood pressure.
Reviewing all this all I can say is; I’m going to continue to NOT watch the news. Thank you and good night.
The half-wits probably never learned that wealth is created. There is not a finite amount of money that a handful of successful folks at the top are hoarding. They didn’t get rich stuffing it in their mattress. They continue to invest it in something that produces a return. My concern is not the grave math error but for these journalists to think, like Jack and Rick mention above, that there are enormous pools of money just sitting in some dude’s safe that could be better used distributed among the population. And suddenly nobody is poor.
Now you see why The Left / Mainstream Media are so puzzled over the cost of nationalized health care. They seem to think half a billion dollars would get each of us one million bucks in coverage. And, therefore, the rest of the trillions we now spend must be going to “greed” and “profiteering.”
But, but, but… 97% of NY Times and MSNBC mathematicians agree so it MUST be true! The math is settled!
get to it.