August 2008
“We know that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be...”
– Barack Obama
“Palin knows about foreign policy because Alaska is ‘right next door to Russia’”
– FOX News
are you able
to convert
your convertible
catastrophes
into something free
and fulfilling
like angst
and
sympathy?
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?”...”
– Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and...”
– Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“So if McCain chooses Pawlenty, do we say that America already has had Pawlenty...”
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my complaint complete
a tantric smile full of sleep
too much moss on still life stones
too much skin
not enough bones
a mug of something tough
and lovely
spilled through grates before
it touched me
gargantuan fires under
sprinkler heads
pillowless powerless
pink proud beds
sunsets seen through dirty glass
swallowed snickers
walking past
so much powder in a cartoon keg
left-side...
“The bad news is that the Democrats want to raise taxes for working people. The...”
Smoke Break: Dick Cheney Is The Lord of All Birds
thedailywhat:
The NYT reports on a study done by wildlife biologists from the University of Washington which found that crows remember the faces of humans they’ve interacted with, and react accordingly:
To test the birds’ recognition of faces separately from that of clothing, gait and other individual human characteristics, Dr. Marzluff and two students wore rubber masks. He designated a...
capitivity
so like spores these fingertip treasures
burnt black somedays, or smooth
frozen, stuck to winter
morbid like a death smile
august comes tramping down
the autumn alley
ugly again, brown at the edges
upsetting the balance of solstice
and solitude, stealing sunshine
from late evening
one minute
at a time
goliath is the universe we
spill our juicy stories into
similarly
one tiny
...
“Any song that makes you think you’re born to lose, bound to lose, no good...”
– Woody Guthrie
“It is not the critic who counts,nor the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
lemonade in your soursweet veins, this parade confetti and noise so many mouths made . cartels of cartoon flesh these trader traps lie waiting for the cold weather hearts that slowed and stayed . broken vessels tied and true absolute, these tired camps burnt to coals, sparked again flickering orange and blue a colored whisper argument . your hints are still ancient characters tattoo’d into...
margarita by israel kamakawiwo’ole
“There are two sorts of curiosity — the momentary and the permanent. The...”
– Robert Lynd
“I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s (Nelson) Mandela?’ Well,...”
– George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007
“Bush goes to Hel. That’s what a lot of people want.”
– George W. Bush, on his visit to the Hel Peninsula, Gdansk, Poland, Jun. 8, 2007
“MULTI HOUSING FAMILY
Though the wealth is both his and his spouse’s,...”
– Kevin Pierce (found in the New York Times comment section)
“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and...”
– Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies
a stitch in time saves mine
and
the moment will come
unnoticed, passing quickly in a slush
of seconds, almost silent
.
you are equally shushed
shuffling feet, morning mad
with hunger and residue
of fog
.
you are backwards haiku
on bar napkin, writing yourself
back into the corner
it took you so long
to get out of
.
and i won’t read or look at clocks
too stoned on indecision and surprise attacks
...
After rape victim used cell phone to call for...
This weekend, defense contracting giant KBR announced it would ban the use of personal cell phones by its employees in Iraq, citing no specific reason. Though KBR has not indicated the ban is related to the numerous allegations of rape by female KBR employees by their male coworkers, the ban could endanger future victims. Jamie Leigh Jones, the first victim to come forward publicly, explained that...
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds...”
– Oscar Ameringer
