Via the indefatigable Never Yet Melted
After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
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.
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That cuts. Deeply.
There’s no there there.
I’m fairly certain I don’t get that….
A fitting commentary on the Academy and its Awards. Hilarious.
I’m still awaiting the exoneration of Garrison Keillor. He said he doesn’t even like touching people, which I can believe. Prairie Home Companion sure got wearisome the last several years so it’s just as well he left it behind, but I don’t believe he deserves the shit he’s been hit with.
Suppose none of them were “guilty”.
But then, if they weren’t guilty, why no libel suits?
If someone did that to me, and I hadn’t done the deed, they wouldn’t be stealing air any more.
Insane situation that if a guy is accused of or has bad behavior in his background he is never supposed to work anywhere ever again? If a guy is criminal, arrest him. This other bs blacklisting is for the birds.
The libs are still stunned & confused that their conservatives-sexual-predator meme bit them in the ass.