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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PREDICTION: THIS RACE IS GOING TO TAKE A DRAMATIC TURN TO THE RIGHT WHEN THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE HAS TO DEBATE VICE PRESIDENT PENCE.
Prediction; whatever happens in November, the democrats will continue trying to destroy this country.
Not bad. I note that Obama was never questioned seriously by reporters, beacuse: black. Now, they have Biden, whose excuse is: senile. Can’t ask him anything because c’mon man.
The Covid scenario is good. His supporters will vote for him, dead or alive, so it’s not a foul out.
I stay with my theory that they’re not really running an election, anyway. They just want to watch it all burn. Elections don’t enter into it.
They want to watch it all burn…yup.
I think there is something to the theory that they drag out the contested results from Nov.3 to Jan 21 resulting in Speaker of the House Pelosi becomes Pres. It’s constitutional…..imagine?
Can’t help but think these criminals are going to do something very BIG, bigger than most people can handle. Something so BIG it cause massive turmoil on multiple levels.
Blow up a nuclear powerplant, or a couple major airports, or a series of hospitals (VA).
BIG.
What if 90% of the grid west of the Missisip is permanently destroyed?
Or google sacrifices it’s entire cloud for the greater good?
Or 3 blocks of Wall St is Dresden’d?
As Casey has eluded, they don’t just want the election, for that is just one step on their ultimate goal of national annihilation. If they can destroy the country BEFORE the election they achieve their goals even quicker.
“A good rule of thumb is to ALWAYS overestimate your enemy for if you are wrong you win even better.”
–gs, 2099
“As Casey has eluded, they don’t just want the election, for that is just one step on their ultimate goal of national annihilation.”
Maybe Casey “elided”…? And by the way, autocucumber first tried to convince me I meant “eluded” too.
The vile filth that pretend to be fellow Americans,embodied in the Speaker of the House,are quite literally,fighting for their livelihood. And whatever foul scraps of their “reputations” the fluffer media gaslights us with.
They’re already perfectly fine with civilian assassination. They’re baiting PDT;they’re baiting US.
Yes,they’re going balls to the wall,scorched earth,nothing is sacred.
It will get worse;Ghost’s scenarios are certainly possible.
Perhaps. Biden began his drooling moron phase when his Ukraine dealings began to bubble up. If the man were truly as dementia-addled as he keeps appearing,would’nt his loving family make him quietly bow out of the strenuous race? Or is it a cover to keep him from being held to task for his (and Hunter’s) foul,corrupt,and lucrative lives of pretense?
No other American President has had to endure what PDJT has.
In the process,his enemies have revealed to the American people precisely who and what they are.
They post their insanity to Twitter proudly. (See Cuomo,et al).
Keep on keepin’ on,demwits.
Have faith. This country’s in better hands than it has been in decades.
RVD, good catch. I elide nuthin. The dems are eliding the elections, because: communism doesn’t need elections. Commies only come to power through violence, because who da fug would ever vote that shi in? Some libs, yes. But they’re stupid.
Ghost, yeps. Minimum goal: disrupt the elections. Max. goal: dissolve the country and enter some godawful form of totalitarianism. Watch for some slick Senator to stand in the well, and declare that “this government is dissolved.” A new Party will be seated, and Bob’s Your Uncle we’re done with.
alluded