WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
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The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
— Robert Frost
Gerard Van der Leun
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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From one emergency to the next crisis and repeat.
I expect that will be the way of it from now until November 8th.
Kevin sed: “I expect that will be the way of it from now until November 8th.”
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If Trump grabs the next 4 the insanity will continue, probably indefinitely.
See, a bunch of adults no longer accept responsibility for themselves and either, act like children, or let children in their charge, behave out of control. Behavior used to have consequences but, well, no more. Now, people get to do whatever they want and everybody else has to go pound sand.
The “father figure” has been gradually removed from this country over the last 40 years and it’s expected that the children will misbehave. When, “Just wait until your father gets home!”, is removed from the lexicon it translates all the way up the wire to the very top.