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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
When all Earth’s seas shall Levitate,
Dark shawled within the skies,
Upon our eyes will Starfish dance
Their waltz of Blind surprise.
The sun will Rise within wine Dark
As Argonauts imbibed,
Whose drunken arms embrace that sleep
Where Phaeton’s horses Stride.
Upon all of Earth’s wind-sanded shores,
As dolphins Learn to soar,
All we once were on the land
Shall be sealed behind the door
Of Ivory and Chastened Gold,
That the Mystery solved complete
Shall never til the seas’ Long fall
Wake mariners from their sleep.
— Van der Leun
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
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
— The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Gerard Van der Leun
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Since the Aussies have already opted for disarmament, basically this is just taunting.
If the USA starts turning in or registering firearms, the whole fukkin world goes dark for a millennium. More or less a quote from Reagan, although his context varied a bit. “This is the last stand on earth.”
idgaf about Australia. Their only hope is to see the USA succeed against disarmament, and then rally up and overturn their stupidass govt., too. GB is like the devil’s own puzzle state. Enjoying partial democracy but keeping the jackboot on the necks of their subjects. It’s insidious.
Here in America, the idea is to vote away our BOR at state and local levels a bit at a time. I miss the salad days when we were only getting our health care taken away.
Prohibiting guns is a boost to criminals.
They get to keep doing what they do and you don’t get to do anything about it.
Ironically, it’s the criminals behavior that is the reason the tyrants want to steal your guns.
If this in itself is not proof the tyrant is deranged and requiring containment I don’t know what is.
Regardless, they will never prevent my natural right to protect myself, and a whole bunch of em may have to die before the rest learn from it. Got ammo?
The whole enchilada of .gov is a HUGE criminal cartel. In fact the worlds largest criminal organization. That is the reason for banning guns from the citizens. Period, end of story.
IF, the citizens were to actually learn what this criminal called government has been doing forever, there WOULD be massive revolt. History is the guide here.
No government is or has been a benevolent angel, in protection of the people. A synonym for government is murder.
They spelled Australian like a Nazi.
This is brought to you by people who are desperately eager for a police state. But they want to be inside the tent. That’s why they’re crying about government programs that might put limits on their own wrongdoing.