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Post by stilltrucking » August 20th, 2007, 3:02 pm

very remarkable
to overcome
the compelling instinct
to cling to life

to cast out
and punish
the self for moral inferiority
so sue side me

Fly away
from the present
presence
I got stoned and I missed it

Fly away
from the lies that bind
wash the sleep from my eyes
Am I awake yet?

"After all these years
I am still alive
cut me loose
let me fly"
jitterbug

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Post by WIREMAN » August 23rd, 2007, 3:17 pm

razor's edge flip fly-me-away
an ST poesie monumentous
i think i likes it.........
me I feel like I'm becoming some kinda Kung fu t.v. Priest.....

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Post by jimboloco » August 23rd, 2007, 3:53 pm

off we gooo into th wild blue yonder
to fly an to fight an don'tya ferget it
flaming into th night
no time to ponder why
it's time fer action no shit
time fer th fight
time to fly
curse this war an
curse you too red baron

one time in pilot training
we were grounded with a low cloud ceiling
so caPtion welty told me to gooo fly traffic patterns
i says "i only have enough flight time left to practice for my acrobatics checkflight"
he motioned for scott to goo fly
then addressed me to the class,
"don't you ever speak to a superior officer like that again"
smirks
i got to go practice my acrobatics next day, clear and sunny,
and was the first stud pilot to do the acrobatics checkflight
got an excellent

all for naught
fraught with social consciousness
all we are spewing
give peas a chance
radical chique
black panthers
star power in new orleans
dixie chicks in l a
stoned in old st pete
beat
[color=darkcyan]i'm on a survival mission
yo ho ho an a bottle of rum om[/color]

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Post by joel » August 23rd, 2007, 4:49 pm

Patriotic red-white-and-blues
like the songs we picked in turn:
first-graders and their national hymns
one a day
once we say
"I pledge allegiance to the flag" that doesn't wag;
it's hanged over the blackboard
next to the letter charts
and posters of history's presidents--
it's hanged like the scary textbook photos
of Lady Day's strange Southern fruit cocktail--
with liberty and justice for all,
land of the free and home of the brave...

patriotic banners wave
and they're as flighty as I've ever seen
with rings around the monuments to their own selves
or solitary over public housing projects,
like the star-mangled banner over that the ritziest HUD enterprise
wherein lies
anyone who can afford the Lincoln Bedroom
or buy the empire (which might require family influence
if possible to be had)...

Lafayette Square,
place of legend where
Pop-pop PTSD proposed to Baba Navy Secretary
after the war (when will that happen again?), under the flag-flight
one dark night
more peaceful I'm sure than the grounds formerly were
under that flag-flight
one dark fright
on top of an auction block...

with liberty and justice for all,
land of the free and home of the brave...

fly away in time with whip-crack cloth
on a Negro spiritual
for a spiritless people who need to spread open
their spread eagle wings...

and he will raise you as on wings of eagles...

(let's hope he is someone other
than a song-stylist member of the empire warmachine)...

if I could fly, I'd fly solo
and hijack my solo mission
toward a vision of somwhere other
it's gotta halt...

Who is John Galt..?

some flied away, some rand, some walked--
I talked away on tangents till I forgot
or believed I had forgotten
that I was in lament for lame-duck, bird-down prematurity
and I was fearful newcomer dixie chicks might not remember
better ways
or better days
for fly aways.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Post by Arcadia » August 23rd, 2007, 7:16 pm

(the runaway option
always seduces me
but maybe fly away
is just fly away)

last week talking and seeing a revisionist dvd
about a guy who served 20 years in the Spanish military
since he was eleven
and wanted to kill moros, brits and frenchs
and then came to Río de la Plata
to fight the Spanish Army
-girls bored
boys enthusiastic about the way the arms worked in that days...!-
ahh, school!!!

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Post by joel » August 24th, 2007, 12:35 am

Maryland's La Plata
rhymes with child's play: hot patayta
now'n'lata.

How many years since the twister?
How long since the tornado?
How many new free souls in the Old Line State
since the lines blitzed to the skies
in a Shallow Southern storm?
How deep is the pile of sand under that coastal plain egg timer?

There was a day by old Sligo's winding waters,
gentle hills of green,
when the halls of old Blair High School
all's-the-matter Queen
were full of classless adolescents--
not because of OJ's acquittal or the Million Man March
or Rabin's assassination or a fire caused by a dead rat behind the heaters
or a visit from the White House and Number Ten Downing Street--
but because the prairie archtype winds descended
and our teen angst lives were bended:
school day ended till the streets were clear in Silver Spring
of breezes out of place.

That's the day we almost flew away
from Wayne Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland--
the day we may have had the chance to fly off somewhere better
(even better than Four Corners)--
the day Silver Spring was almost La Plata.

But La Plata's still a mess, even if it flew once,
but I think of it
but I dream of it
but I yearn for it
but I mourn for it
each and every time I hear Ms Stevie Nicks singin'
"You could be my silver spring...blue-green...colors flashin'...."
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Post by stilltrucking » September 5th, 2007, 9:21 am

nothing new
in the red white and blue
before the fifty stars on the plastic flag
the robber barons still rule
from the Iriquois to the Iraqi
still taking what we please
Black Jack Pershing still chasing Pancho
Before the war on poverty
Before the war on drugs
Before the war on inflation
Before the war on terrorism
Before the war the Civil war

There were some other wars
We have holidays to celebrate war
And when some old tin soldier general dies peacefully in his bed
We fly the flags at half mask to honor his death

I knew the scoreThe writers of my youth
Dos Passos
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis
My Heroes Norman Thomas Emma Goldman Clarence Darow Eugene Debs
John Peter Altgelt

I been a pacifist for a long time
From world war one
My Father's war

Maryland state motto
"manly deeds, womanly words" I forget the latin
don't want to google in an open text box

And the japanese soldier yelled bonzai
and the marines yelled back
Kill for eleanore

Still a real live nephew of my uncle phil
who snuck into the promised land
wet back from the atlantic ocean

since 1948 a jew without jews
without a homeland
except for this one
If I had a right of return I wish it was canada
something just dont buy the holy land anymore
never did
like the German Jew on The Ship Of Fools with his Iron Cross sailing back to Germany in the thirties

Got dam got dam got dam
Mr Wilson's war

God dam bremmer, god dam rumsfeld, those stupid fucking white men
what was their excuse

you were wrong jimboloc, nothing latent about my racism.

I used to carry my uncle's dog tags from when he was a truck driver on one of the philipine islands during wordl war one part two
Aluminum with the notch at one end
for religion it had a capitol H

so I suppose I can understand what motivated wolfowitz the educated got dam dummy

This bloody fiasco in Iraq did not have to be this way, just one thing different
bremmer disbanded the Iraqi army
overnight he created the insurgency
and Bush let it happen
Becasuse it was cool with Rumsfeld

Tomy Franks is a hero now I think. He has a best seller out about how he took the money and run.

I shit
I used to hear world war two vets talk about Dugout Doug
Nothing new in the land of the red white and blue

bad head
if I can hold it steady it is okay
but if i move it ever so slighty my brain sloshes around and bounces off the back of my eyeballs

yes fly away
fly away like a home sick angel
waltz across texas with my true love
don't you just love them all
Little Hillary
And snake eyes Rice

I think the only reason I stick around is to see what women will do next

"Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine"

yeah right

glad you liked it wireman
it is some lyrics from a song by my big brother "the jitterbug"
some more lyrics
frm the same song
"struggle on the east coast for your west coast fare
trying to get to someplace but you don't know where
going through the motions going no where's fast"

war seduces?
during to the patriotic frenzy in the buildup to world war one the girls woud hand out white feathers to any man they saw who was not in uniform.

It is kind of funny in a horrible way
that chicken hawks like Ted Nugent and Dick Cheney love their gunz so much. What is a chicken hawk, some one who would not go to war themselves because getting their brains blown out for their country was not on their agenda but they totaly support anybody who does want to make a quick twenty thousand dollars.

is that what a chick hawk is?


this is a hellish go

I want poetry
not politics

insurgent poetry

I heard a friend say that an electric guitar is seductive.
More seductive than a machine gun for me.

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Post by stilltrucking » September 5th, 2007, 9:32 am

The holy land
Jesus is just okay with me
I can follow in his footsteps right here in texas
I wish Wolfowitz had immigrated to Israel done his good work there
I suppose I look at Israel as a Liberia for jews
I am glad it is there for Jews who only feel they are home there
I am naive about nationality
But I can understand why some jews only feel safe when they are living there.

And G*d is not mocked except by believers I read in Anne Sexton
I believe god the real estate broker gave us this entire earth as holy land
holy ground.

Palestine for the Palestinians
Scotland for the Scots
England for the English
French for the French
Ireland for the Irish
Italy for the Italians
Israel for the Israelis
Because everybody got to be somewhere



But I have decided to follow my heretical faith
ouch
I just moved my head

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Post by joel » September 6th, 2007, 10:38 am

Republican Grandpa went to Cuba
because of a soon-to-be-forgotten Korean matter
called back by the Navy boys
and left Eleanore at home
with one little boy
with one little girl
who didn't know Republican Papa in Guantanamo by Fidel
was at other times Mommy's husband
Herbie and El

why not celebrate peaceperiods instead of warperiods?
and why not poets' singers' painters' musicians' sculptors' teachers' births?
and why not swap the weight of nationalist propagadadays (4 July XXXX)
with the catholic weight of panentheist holydays (Earth Day)?

I love the dirt and water and hills and shores of Maryland, but I would change the motto (quickly)...
drop the heterosexist Fatti Maschii and the demeaning Parole Femine...
Apocatastasis--that would be my hoped-full motto.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Post by stilltrucking » September 6th, 2007, 1:00 pm

I would be a catholic
in a heart beat
confession good for my soul
St Anne Of Sexton
Martyred by the Priests of Freud
Her Parole Femme
saved me from bedlam
when I was still a woman hater like good old St Paul
and saw them the sacred feminine through a glass darkly
of my own lust
And then one day in 1974 I read 'When Jesus Suckled'
She told me
"Lies
All Lies
I am a truck
I own you"guote from geezer memory

I sing for her
She is a truck
she owns me
I see nothing demeaning in Parole Femme
Nothing to beat my chest about in Fatti Mashii

Apocatastasis?
Okay
Theology not my thing

I have The Faith Of A Heretic

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Post by MrGuilty » September 6th, 2007, 1:34 pm

Pardon the sock puppet joel
I have my reasons
crazy as they are
Faith of A Heretic

I get my theology through poetry
I can hear the Thou in it joel




I am burned out on waiting for deus ex machina
The great white brother came to the new world
Domini domini you all got small pox now


No more waiting for the Messiah for me
I know that day will come for me
and that will be the day that I die
jitterbug tells me that we all have eternal life
I believe him more than I believe a thousand preachers
with a thousand bibles.
I get my theology from old gospel songs like
Oedipus at Colonus
I moved to the country and ate a lot of peaches
found Jesus on my own
Preacher man said jesus walked on the water
and I know that is true
but sometimes I think that preacher man would like to do a little walking too.

Sheep
the meek have inherited the earth
nobody meeker than me joel
just a sheep in wolf's clothing
just like our Christian President.




we are the ones we were waiting for
Apocatastasis Now that's my motto
I used to be smart

Free Rice

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Post by joel » September 6th, 2007, 2:41 pm

I don't see sock puppets...and when I do, I don't mind them--vantriliquism's a gift I admire; when I'm talking, I can never hide my voice.

G B Shaw wrote to my heart, the heart of a traditional believer in both Jesus and Marx (to perhaps a paraphrased extent): "Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionist."

Faith and Heresy and Revolution...and all I can do is pray.

For apocatastatic movement now
and too for fearlessness, O Perfect Love—
What else professes Hallow’d be thy name,
what else could beg Thy sovereign justice come,
what else confesses here Thy will be done,
but faith (and not religiosity)?—
and faith naïve and infantile and low
enough to trust, True Love—to trust, not know,
that pious words and grandiosity
are faith’s effects, its causes not; and lone
is truth, O Gracious Love, that – freely from
a righteousness so alien – the same
salvific word to all is spoken— Of
such mercy may I only clamor Thou.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Post by stilltrucking » September 6th, 2007, 3:08 pm

Kierkegaard was so hard for me
Nietzsche like a piece of cake
compared to him

And somewhere K asked
why do we need preachers in Christendom?

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Post by joel » September 19th, 2007, 10:43 pm

stilltrucking wrote:why do we need preachers in Christendom?
it's a crazy crusaders' Christendom we live in (if we do)...
but i'll tell you why we need preachers:
when preachers have too much free time,
they litter the internet
with half-baked thoughts in half-backed rhymeschemes--
and since they are called to the pulpit
for heaven's sake
and not to poetics
for poesy's sake
it isn't necessarily the pretty kind of litter they leave--
it may be honest graffitti...
but not the kind of gang tags that find their ways into museums.
:lol:
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Post by stilltrucking » September 24th, 2007, 7:37 am

and since they are called to the pulpit
for heaven's sake
For heaven's sake
we create
hell on earth.

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