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Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
— Bob Dylan
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
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
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.
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.