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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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The Poles who fought by our side in Iraq, when told to quit the field said to the US: we will retire from Iraq on the day designated, plus one more. The Poles are fierce. Now you know why.
Plans? Once in awhile they tip their hand. Someone called into a Rush pinch-hitter at the microphone. The caller sounded like a white toast liberal. What did he say? Something on the order of how “we want you all dead.” What asshole yesterday said he wanted to demolish by explosion every Trump hotel?
What I particularly despise about the contemporary liberal is that he doesn’t dress well. At least the fukn/nazis dressed like a million bucks. They were a great adversary and here is where I remind the readership that my father was chin to nose with those muthas in 1945. He was in an outfit that didn’t just engage the Krauts, they wailed on them like you do a cur dog. It was bloodbath.
OK, so this morning I’m mad at Johhny Lib. Have a nice day.
Casey sed: “OK, so this morning I’m mad at Johhny Lib.”
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I seeth about communists every day. But I keep it in context. The only way I know about communists is through the media, and the media lies all the time. So the communists will never rule me, the lying ones or the not lying ones. Any acosters around here will be dispatched with malice.
“Have a nice day.”
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Thank you. Likewise I’m sure.
I like your comment, Ghost. Did you see the commies in Germany on the border, though? Or are you just being rhetorical.
It is interesting what you say. If I were to take an audit of what the commies have done to me, personally, I think I could write a bunch. One that sticks in my craw, and makes me viol@tly angry, is the way my hometown closed up house by house when the GD’ed owl got famous. They closed the woods, now want to close oil and coal, and make the schools run on weed taxes. That would be the schools that aren’t open to capacity. GD it, I’m mad now.
Take a breath, Casey. Serenity now…
Casey says: “The Poles are fierce. Now you know why.”
Yep. The Polish army in exile earned a reputation for kicking German butt all over Europe during WWII:
The Polish pilots who formed two fighter squadrons of the RAF during the Battle of Britain in 1940 were skilled and aggressive airmen: “No. 303 squadron would make the highest victory claims in the entire Battle of Britain, shooting down 126 German fighter plans in just 42 days.”
https://www.historyhit.com/no-303-squadron/
It was also the Poles who planted their flag on top of Monte Cassino in May 1944: “. . . we learnt that the Polish flag was flying over the Monastery. It was very fitting that this should be so, for the Poles have suffered dearly.”
https://ww2today.com/18-may-1944-polish-troops-capture-monte-cassino
And it was the Polish 1st Armored Division that took and successfully defended Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) in the Battle of Falaise in August 1944, guaranteeing the encirclement of German troops fleeing eastward: “The Poles were relieved by the Canadian Grenadier Guards shortly after noon [on August 21]; their stand had ensured the closure of the Falaise pocket and the collapse of the German position in Normandy.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_262
Johnny Lib had better be careful . . .
More from Larry Grathwohl. It is always the same plan. Always.
https://youtu.be/CKTltWU1e7w
Yes Casey, I saw “communists”, at least that’s what I was told. I saw people, at a distance of about half a mile, through binoculars, but do not know their politics or ideology for fact. They were probably poor saps like us stuck with a foul job whether we wanted to or not. Border guard, near Premisch, Germany, many times.
My take is, anything that impedes my progress through life is tyrannical and potentially communist. I’m a natural rightest above all else and people that do not recognize natural rights are my natural enemies. They are contradictions and must be eliminated. Leave me alone, entirely, and you can expect the same.
Pa. Cat – many thanks for the links.
Casey, what owl do you speak of?
Spotted owl?
In Florida they have burrowing owls.
That’s right, the things did tunnels under the ground, and they are pretty small as owls go, maybe 8″ tall.
If you own a vacant piece of dirt and the owls take up residency there they now own your dirt.
The state comes out and establishes a owl shrine on the dirt and a tribe of wanton rosey cheeked teens from the local college will be assigned guard duty in rotation on said shrine. Woe be he that attempts to thwart the states measures and eliminate the owls in some way for he will suffer the seven wraths of state hell, ending deep in that ass pocket.
Bald assed eagles are even worse. They are higher than gaw hisself in FL. I know a developer that bought 90 acres for $14mil and a year later was denied use of his property because an “abandoned” eagle nest was found within 1100 feet of the site. The state said the nest had to be abandoned for a documented 10 years before the land was available for use.
The birds ain’t the problem. It’s the EPA and their ilk.
We don’t own anything. We aren’t allowed to. There used to be a word that appeared in dictionaries long ago but is difficult to find anymore. This is from the original Webster’s 1828:
“ALLODIUM: Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgement to a superior. It is thus opposed to feudal. In England, there is no allodial land, all land being held of the King; but in the United States most lands are allodial.”
All of that changed on March 9, 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt declared the United States bankrupt by and through executive order nos. 6073, 6102, 6111, and 6260. Then on April 26, 1933 came Senate Resolution no. 62 which reads in part: “The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual “ownership” is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.” Actually, the Federal Reserve owns everything. The Fed holds the bankrupt United States in receivership. The Fed recruited the tattered remnants of our government to enforce the terms of the bankruptcy.
We are only paying to use stuff we don’t own. That’s why your car gets towed away and held in ransom because of some administrative infraction of policy. You didn’t harm anyone… your license expired, or registration, and now you’re walking home. The Federal Reserve is the primary cause of evil in this world. This isn’t just an American problem. The Fed decides when and where the bombs will drop. The peace-lovin’ Democrats are dropping bombs on Syria… just like Trump used to do, and just like O’Bomber did before him. It’s the Fed. Only politician I ever gave money to was Ron Paul.