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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
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.