FYI

[hester_prynne]

Demo-crap-ick pres candi dates fore em on MSNBC today with Keith Oberman on MSNBC......7pm eastern, 4pm pacific time.
I find these things fascinating to watch.
Is something wrong with me?

H

[jimboloco]

we keep hoping
obama burnt his karma
but i like old gravel
and dennis the menace
and hillarious's cleavage, yes, i confess
is something wrong with me?
I really wanna see what overman injects into this affair

some affaris are better than others

by the way, at the end of the other post you started i have a letter back from the mother of a deceased vet, antiwar, yet respectful of the initial motive, which was to serve.

dumbocrats, yes, our vision is beyond them
but we are trapped by a frightful conservative reactionary regime
and hopefully hillarious will roll back some of the nefarious abuses of government power
less some paranoid agent come rapping tapping at our doors
and scarf us away in the night

[the flaming ace]

it looks like old senator from alaska
whazziz name?
ya know, the one who said "yes"
that our soldiers was dying in vain
mike gravel,
he said, more or less, like,
look at the nam
they got baskin-robbins in hanoi
ho ho ho chi mint
like they are becoming commie-pinko capitalists\exactly what the american left wants
more or less
so where's the beef?

it is with the right wing power brokers
and their running dawg lackeys

thinking about taking a basic course in american government
like, the mandatory requirement was waved
i was in rotc, man

i'd get tired of rice ice cream, too

so mike gravel got bumped,
but not before dennis the menace
thanked alaska mike
avant-courrier for the pentagon papers
into the senate congressional record
and then snuck it to a publisher,
for mass circulation.
ballsy old homre,
it would be a shame
he dared to challenge the conventional attitude of solemn respect
for the fallen
but how much is an affectation
because they don't want to deal with the essential question of human cost,
they sanitize it,
and pass it on

so the dnc booted alaska mike
that's stupid
if true

[tinkerjack]

I spent two years in ROTC. It was nice on those cold winter mornings to stand at ease in the center of that formation of warm bodies.

I was born to follow

I found a new american poet this week, can't remember his name but his initials were VL a line that stuck was
"not that they die, but that they die as sheep"

Bad decision by DNC
But it maybe possible to elect gravel
if they don't "fix" the voting machines
"nothing wrong with being paranoid if you are paranoid" somebody on litkicks a long time ago

Yes a bad choice by the DNC

but I am not going to embrace the politics of sin cynicism and despair and having lived through the superannuation of political categories

Life Against Brown ~NB

superanuated political categories
Left/Right

I am going to keep throwing my energy behind old whazzis name.

[Doreen Peri]

The Leaden-eyed
by Vachel Lindsay

Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.
Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.

Truckin, I have performed Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo" (only part 1, I have had it memorized for years) dozens of times. I love that piece! You just reminded me I've never recorded it. I need to do that for posterity sake.

[stilltrucking]

I would so like to hear that Doreen
please post it when you get home
I am counting the days for you
you started packing yet?

I am nervous as hell we don't burn the place down while you are gone.
happy landings

[stilltrucking]

Meanwhile
I been looking for for a website where I could hear it

I finally found one


listen here

controversial poem
The Congo A Study of The Negro Race
author's note at the end
It was inspired by an illusion in a sermon by his pastor about to the heroic life and death of a Christian missionary.

Have you read the wikipedia article on it?

He claims to have discovered and helped Langston Hughes get published

I loved the sound of it Doreen no time yet to think about what it means to me. I may be a latent racist

>>>>>>>>>>

I been watching As Good As It Gets for the past week. I can't stay awake long enough to watch the whole thing. Last night I watched the "packing scene"

When I went on the road it took me days to pack.

[Doreen Peri]

I like my recitation better than that. LOL! Not to wave my flag or anything. But there are rhythms missing or something doesn't sound right with it. Yeah, at the time, I'm not sure if they considered it a racist piece or not but it's not, in my opinion. I recited this at the recent gig we did with Wireman in Frederick, MD and also at a show at Gallery Neptune in Bethesda with the litkicks gang for a children's memories theme. Why was it a memory of my childhood? hehe.. well because it was the first poem I ever memorized ... back when I was a teenager for an oral interpretation class... oh I was in my first year of college I think, come to think of it, but I was still a kid. Rambling ... i donno why, truckin. Something about talking to you makes me ramble sometimes.

If I have some time, maybe I'll record this this evening and put it up so you can hear it. It's a fun rhythmic dynamic piece.

[Doreen Peri]

oh and yeah at the children's theme show, I also recited "George who received a dangerous toy and suffered a catastrophy of considerable dimensions" bye Hillaire Bellock (I'm not sure how to spell his name), another poem I memorized but as a younger child.

And yeah, I'm getting ready to pack, finishing up some deadlines, got a cell phone finally (first time geesh) and it's fine if you burn the place down while I'm gone.

......

to hester- Sorry to go off-topic on your thread. I don't like any of the democrats. Or any of the republicans either. They all sound like the same people with different faces to me. I did like the guy you recently linked to.. I mean, I liked reading on his website about his opinions on the issues. I thought he was the best one yet but hey, I doubt he could win the election. I had never heard of him before which means he probably doesn't have much money to advertise himself. Isn't it sad that the american elections are now all about buying enough advertisements so people will vote for you? It's all about money. Every darn thing is about money to Americans. I hate money. Which is probably why I don't have any. lol... seriously, though, the whole system needs an overhaul... actually, it might be a good idea to form a new country. We rebelled against King George before, why not again?

[jimboloco]

I loved the sound of it Doreen no time yet to think about what it means to me. I may be a latent racist

>>>>>>>>>>

ditto
don't burn no bridges with any possible progresss
and leave by the back door if necessary
i can't give up hope

[stilltrucking]

ditto on the hope



sorry hester here I go again

jim speaking of ditto heads I took a call for rush limbaugh's news later
guy was really pissed
chewed me out good
I enjoyed the hell out it
no shitz
it was the best call I had on my shift at the rosewater foundation.
I was trying to help him without breaking out in laughter. He was going on and on about Limbaugh talking about Tiger Woods on his show.

Good idea on the cell phone Doreen
especially if you will be driving around out in the land of fruits and nuts. I love california. Maybe because it was my best money run? I don't know. I just loved going there.
Thanks for rambling with me.