Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Absolutely. Poetry is not here to suck up to anyone or anything. Poetry is here to call it like it sees it, to get beneath the surface and bluster-bombast bullshit.

Absolutely.

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Stop yer caterwaulin’ bawlin,’ yer back-scratchin’ circle jerkin,’ readin' so many turds on a stick. Oh poetry! Poetry! in glass cases, bobbing on a sea of shit, it is it! Stop yer cryin whinin’ pinin.’ You still got mountains to blast, black crude to shoot in yer veins, six thousand channels of cra...

Although I tend to believe we won't see fascism on such an overt, official and large scale as 1930s-40s Spain, Germany and Italy, fascism never really died; it just developed better brochures, payment plans and (usually) more subtle techniques. You reminded me of a story something like this: One tim...

Man, Bob Kaufman is one guy I would have loved to meet. I read a pretty cool story by Eileen Kaufman recently about how she met Bob. A lot of good descriptions of that late '50s scene. I need to just turn off my "political switch" (actually, I've had it mostly shut down for awhile). I can't get draw...

And like most "reality shows," it's hardly based on reality.

sorry, amigo, I can't answer your call (Said, after posting a long-ass response.) ... it seems we should not be worrying 'bout the gov't but about the people NO. The "gov't" failed the people. Gave us no choice. Shit A or Shit B. To all-time high ridiculous proportions. I'd prefer that my President...

Thanks.

Escapism is good sometimes.

Basically, the "White Power" movement, or at least its "sympathizers," adopted (and modified) some of Trump's sloganeering, and things like " Make America White Again " have been spray painted in various places, including schools, with swastikas and the whole ugly thing. Muslim students have had kni...

The recent hate crimes? Or the "election"-process?

A spate of hate crimes across the country since Tuesday.

Hope it doesn't escalate.

It's almost like the the world is run by a corporate-driven CABAL, or consortium of them, and war is just another basic policy tool (and population control/cleanup). The corporate world has for a long time crunched numbers to weigh "acceptable harm or even casualties" justified by profit potential. ...

My head's still spinning. America going down the rabbithole...

I’m mad as hell if I know why we don’t line ‘em up and shoot the moon those bastards who sold us down with those funny talkin’ brown nosin’ liberal helpins’ of make us GRATE the bitter cheese wheeze of demi-goggle-wearing myopic mavens of BACK BACK BACK.

On boundless rock and sky, a mineral tang wafts in desert fire. Buff tides roll across a lucent sea. Sear wind sings in petrified planks, a ’48 flatbed chassis, its tires shiny brittle in relentless blaze. Out in the chasm of silent light, weathered men receded into rock. Hardship came with blasting...