Zuihitsu

[the mingo]

Well, the VA cut my disability to damn near zero. They like doing that to vets. I have come to the conclusion that The VA exists to service its ploicies & procedures first and the servicemen & women second . To quote Bruce Springsteen "Went down to see my VA man, he said son, don't you understand now?" In hindsight, I should have let the cancer run its normal course. They use the word "Vet" as if it were a term of honor. It is not. It is a blatent attempt to reduce to a single word the life and worth of a human being. There is no honor much less humanity in the fucking word.

Fuck me dead. Just fuck me dead coast-to-coast. How come the good guys are always the ones have to bend over for the long term ass-fucking?

[sasha]

I have come to the conclusion that The VA exists to service its ploicies & procedures first and the servicemen & women second ......

I doubt my brother-in-law would disagree. He has to drive into Leominster or even Boston for treatment because the regional hospital 10 minutes away doesn't like dealing with the VA. Sorry you've been put in that position.

[the mingo]

Thx, sasha - I don't blame the hospital for its attitude - but no vet should have to endure what your brother-in-law is being put to - when we were young the military drilled into us that we were weapons - we ain't weapons anymore, sasha - we are just old.

[sasha]

When a machine starts to wear out, you either fix it or throw it away. And if there are unlimited replacements at hand, why fix it if you can just plug in a new one? My last job was for a manufacturer of disposable (single-use) medical products, including procedural kits, hand-packed by unskilled workers. Mind-numbing, soul-crushing work, slave labor to rows of conveyor belts. Constant turnover on the floor - Help Wanted signs permanently on display. No attempt to improve conditions because there was no need. If you didn't like it, They said, just leave - they're lined up in HR to take your place. (I was Office, & spared the worst, but hourly, so got drafted for more than one double shift on the packing lines during validation trials.)

[creativesoul]

Yeah we are

[gypsyjoker]

its so easy to fall into Zuisthu
who wrote the book of love
the first time I saw her face I fell in love wih her
all these years I bit my tongue why did she have to live in the Holy Land
bike weather here at last

[the mingo]

How you doing out there, Jack?

[stilltrucking]

I'm out there all right God damn it.

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the plan for the Oct. 7 attack. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

[the mingo]

Yeah, Goddamnit twice.

[the mingo]

I was out splitting firewood when I heard geese coming over. Something about their call caught my ear. It was a HUGH flock of snow geese. We don't get these guys up here, their flyways are more to the west. I watched them pass in awe. I felt gifted.

9:47 a.m.
27 degrees - snow
Tug Hill

[the mingo]

From where I'm sitting the setting winter sun has moved so far west it is no longer in my field of view.


There is at least a dozen poems in that sentence.

[the mingo]

Most times I come here
it's like I'm walking the hallways of an abandoned school
my footsteps echoing

[stilltrucking]

Most times I come here it is when I am graping at straws
but Zuihitsu has been a blessing for me and I will always be grateful to you f 4 it.

Star-crossed,
paper will burn

[stilltrucking]

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the fifties tv show called The Big Picture and also the one called Victory at sea.
She never understood my use of all these different user names but I been thinking about mnaz poems about places and times he writes about the time of rocks, old old olden times before the big whimper but after the the big bang
Israel/Palestine don't mean much in the big picture
I love this avatar that elephant taught me a sense of perspective
we were strolling downtown Montreal in the summer of 75 when she saw her reflection in a department store window and spooked. She started stampeding down the boulevard with me hanging onto her ear, just dangling there I felt like a an earing on a Hindu goddess. Just a thing about avatars, the other one I use "wandering Jew" my sock puppets.
I am not so proud a Jew these days
I never understood why so many North American Jews felt the need to emigrate to Israel. But
she was happy there and I learned to bite my tongue and pray for her safety.
life after her is going to be lonely
the weather here is delightful the living is easy
Texas is as holy as any land gets for me no matter who walked there ...
contiue....>>>

[stilltrucking]

I was born before World War Two started, my earlies memories are of that war.

“From the child of five to myself is but a step,” Leo Tolstoy observed, “but from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.