Mickey Z
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Haiku vs. Haiku
Good morning, Mickey. That is really great poetry. I think all of us can identify with it.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/27 at 08:13 AMStuck a pitchfork through my foot
Warm wet sensation between my toes
Kept digging for nowStepped on a nail
went into the hole
from burned out wortstepped on another nail
playing in old barn
fascinating place called mineChildhood’s end of childhood’s dream
quite a song
from some thoughts while growing upPosted by joe of maine on from 07/27 at 09:31 AMjoe...That’s great. You are quite a poet. I knew that it was your voice before I even got to the end. Sometimes sad poems are the best. Tragedy is more realistic than comedy. Watching childhood’s dreams die is painful. It hurts a little less knowing that others have the same experience.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/27 at 10:42 AMI just read this quote. Brief and right on.
“All the world’s a stage...So when do we get a new script?”
Posted by joe of maine on from 07/27 at 12:08 PMThis is so strange, I have this odd sense of deja vu, that I’ve read all of these haikus and comments before… no, I don’t mean that in an obnoxious way-- odd feeling I have, state I’m in-- have had terrible toothache past few days, off now to dentist, hope it’s not as bad as I fear it is.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/27 at 12:41 PMJames...Blessings on you and your tooth. I hope he doesn’t hurt you. Odd to see your comment here - I have been receiving e-mails just now because our local TV station played yesterday’s Democracy Now again today. The whole town is feeling deja vu - well, not the whole town, the 8 of us who tune in to DN.
joe #4...It feels like the Great Script Writer has abandoned us.
Last night on FOX, Oreilly was commenting on the fact that the left wing media has not been covering the firing of Churchill. I wrote to him and asked “What left wing media”.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/27 at 02:13 PMWell there’s this:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/26/2780/
Someone should chime in on the comments board there, perhaps…And no further pain yet, besides a painful choice:
root canal or extraction of upper right rear molar. I’ll know more on Monday.Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/27 at 03:48 PMMZ, I need at least a half hour to re-boot my brain for haiku. (See below.)
James, I did add a comment on that Ward Churchill article, but had to go wash my hands after posting on CommonDreams.
Native guy gets canned
Rightists rejoice...bullies too.
Drop the other shoe!Little Eichmanns’ pain
Echoes loudly through empire
Forsooth, thou got nailed.Big UC questions:
Native? Plagiary? Vet?
Nonsense. Football funds?Brash and harsh and clear
On taboos, bias, violence
Makes dirty diapersA thoughtcriminal
Laces up shoes with sinews
Of dark ironySmall green winged logs
Carpet the lawn where I live
Damn Canada GeeseA generation
Still learning about power
Damn Baby BoomersIs a race worth it?
Monkey wrenches = too much fun
Damn N. PelosiWrapping on a note
Of hope, renewal, and joy…
Now that’s a punch line!Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 07/27 at 04:58 PMThanks for the link, James. I tried to log on so I could comment, but the site kept rejecting me. Some of the comments there were very disappointing. The personal attacks on Churchill are endless. There is almost NO discussion of the really important things that he has said in his writings.
Good luck with the root canal or extraction. I have always had good luck with root canals, except for one time when a dentist did 4, on a molar that has 4 roots. He was not able to numb the tooth so did the 4 canals with NO anesthesia. Don’t worry. I am sure that you have a dentist who knows better.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/27 at 05:02 PMOne of the important national discussions that is NOT taking place and is relevant to the Churchill firing is: What is a military target? Churchill tried to explain that issue. Most in the usa have been too dumbed-down and too propagandized to connect the dots between money and war. Also, did the military and CIA have office space in the WTC? The people in the usa need to wake up and realize that even in small rural towns, there are sub-sub-sub contractors working on military projects. Our government has succeeded in making us all military targets. The firing of Churchill was just one more example of killing the messenger. How could things get this screwed up ! I’m going for a walk.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/27 at 06:24 PMI’m an old cow hand, by the..OH!..caught me singing...bad choice of tunes? well, I don’t know the lyrics to Metal Meltdown.
RMJ..10...After reading emails from local activists the past couple of days, after talking to a friend who opposes asking for prosecution of war criminals...I’m slowly getting to a point, I don’t even want to talk politics with anyone anymore. It doesn’t feel becoming informed, or advancing anywhere, it feels like spinning wheels.
Planting holistic ideas, to hopefully make thoughts a reality within some kind of time frame that is not certain, to me is a reasonable idea.
It appears many people want to correct some system that is too broken, too big, too out of control, too corrupt, too dysfunctional and has been for over 200 years...It’s like trying to clean a carpet with 250 years worth of cat urine and dog dung. [just in case...I love cats and dogs, simply had to humor myself]
In my opinion, we have lived upside down and inside out, anything other than living sanely and acknowledging ourselves as one other particle on this planet with a sense of responsibility to other things, ourselves and interrelated life support systems.
There is so much information that indicates some people are thinking beyond this disaster we have been living through, however, CounterCock, Common NighMares and the war and peace for dollars websites don’t offer many of these articles that at least give me some sense their are people in the world who are not interested in being lead by marketing companies, oppressive: governments, employers, education systems, churches, military recruitment centers and other propagandists, whaling industries, pseudo environmental groups, etc.
Rio Grande...la la la la la...la la la la LAAA...(-:
Posted by joe of maine on from 07/28 at 09:47 AMjoe...it feels like spinning wheels to me too. But to me there is a nagging feeling, that dropping out is not just like abandoning a toxic ship but it is abandoning all of those innocent civilians that usa corporations have targeted for slaughter. I also know that it is arrogant to think that any one of us, or even all of us, could change things...keep on singing, joe.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/28 at 02:53 PMAn interview with Churchill…
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/28 at 03:26 PMRMJ...Churchill said, “No. I never have any particular regrets about calling things by their right name. And it’s about time we stop pretending that Americans are in a completely different analytical category from everyone else in the world, and are somehow exempt from the consequences of their actions.”
From what I can tell, even many activists have this arrogance that the u.s. is different, not really understanding the magnitude of crimes committed by the u.s. and I don’t know who is included under the title of u.s, not acknowledging to others, the results of at least 3 War Tribunals.
Oh, I not “dropping out”...I’m being more selective as to who and when I talk about War Crimes. As we said before, we really don’t need any more examples of the atrocities committed in just the last 50 years by slaughter R u.s.$
Posted by joe of maine on from 07/28 at 05:09 PMJoe...you quoted one of the best parts of that interview. And yes, you got it right - most in the usa place a value on OUR lives, and no value on THEIR lives. No matter what anyone thinks about Churchill, you have to admire his courage. Most of us, me included, would only have the courage to say the things that he does when we are on our death beds and can no longer be harmed.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/28 at 05:34 PMPS...It might be a good thing if someone has a camcorder when I am on my way out.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/28 at 05:36 PMABC is reporting that the u$a is planning a 20 billion dollar sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Gulf. Just follow the money and count the dead bodies. We no longer need philosophers, poets, artists, etc to figure out what’s going down. Anyone who can count will do. The arms dealers are laughing all the way to the bank as the dead bodies pile up.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/28 at 06:14 PMHey everyone, been lurking for a bit, hope everyone’s OK, especially the family Z.
Its an interesting phenomenon, that as The World has become far too complex for any politician or mandarin to understand or control, simultaneously it is still simple enough for anyone with two brain cells to rub together to understand political behaviour - Cui Bono? is still the critical question. Anyway. Personally my favourite soundbite from Ward’s interview was: “I’m a target, not a victim.”Posted by Mew on from clophill 07/28 at 09:03 PMOK, 4 appallingly bad haiku, in a series, regarding tonights excitement in the local market town…
a placemat with no
significance to the landlord,
i didn’t steal it!it is a dog with
the head of a filthy rat
not hitting its wifeit had had enough
of the splash of minerals,
a real home waitedcheese it! silent cry
of the master criminal
running into rainAnd if that means anything to anyone, you’re as pished as I am…
My posse used to frequent a local inn, the nice lady who ran it retired, it was taken over by nazis, who finally called it quits tonight, the placemats we used to eat our nice-old-lady-prepared food on featured a chimera dog-with-the-head-of-a-rat and a man apparently striking his wife, i swiped said placemat as a momento this evening. Hope you all feel suitably enlightened.Posted by Mew on from clophill 07/28 at 09:22 PM
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