Mickey Z

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Poems that rhyme, May Day, my Bluestockings event, & math problems from Hell

Posted by Mickey Z on 05/01 at 04:20 AM

  2. May Day 1969...I don’t know this first hand, friends who were at protest in DC said with the numbers of angry anti-war participants, police brutality, etc...if everyone were armed, there would have been a violent revolution.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  05/01  at  09:11 AM

  3. Glanced at calendar, it tells me today is Holocaust Rememberance Day...which holocaust, there’s too many to remember, I can’t keep up with all the holocausts in progress, in fact there is no ‘space of peace’ to remember between holocausts!

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  05/01  at  01:04 PM

  4. Hello Expendables...from sunny but soon to be rainy Astoria.

    You’re right, Joe, on Earth every day is Holocaust Rememberance Day.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  05/01  at  01:32 PM

  5. Maybe the Beastie Boys can rhyme ‘holocaust.’ I can’t rhyme worth a nickel.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  05/01  at  05:01 PM

  6. Kickin’ it old school
    ‘bout the Holocaust
    Rhymin’ and stealin’ ‘bout
    six million lost

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  05/01  at  05:07 PM

  7. I could teach all a y’all thing or two about rhymin...but I won’t.  I lived it.  1979 (and the early 80’s).  A young white boy ear to the speakers...taping the latest beats off whatever came out of the radio.  Listening and understanding what black people were saying to each other...not to me, but each other...understanding that there was a new sound that I was a witness to but not a part of.  And here we are...2008...reverend Wright...the new black man...here...judged.  A horn blows.  I am telling you...a horn is blowing.  Here I am...alone in my apartment...listening to the change that never occurred.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  05/01  at  10:55 PM

  8. Mickey

    1) The subject was math and it got the best of thee --

    2) U were gazing out the window when the nun sez to Mickey Z

    3) Zezima—do i have to call your fader’ or give ya da’ belt ?

    4) Hell no --- SISTA—i was watchin snow melt --

    5) You sez science and math are equally important stuff --

    6) So i aint no DaVinci—u dont gots to be so ruff ..

    7) The old man knows I’m a writer by trade --

    8) Three more months ... I’ll be shillin lemonade—

    9) Down at the Coney Stand lazin’ in the shade --

    10) I got wayz to forget you and this too small desk..

    11) Thinkin’ of Michelle .. and our joint request --

    12) That someday we’d be together—in a happier place --

    13) 10 miles uptown ... away from your cloistered face --

    14) ..so I’m just 15 and my future lies ahead --

    15) ... today , after school - i’ll piss u off instead --

    16) ---- Off goes my hair --- I aint no deadhead hippy’

    17) ... Mark Twain -Tom Sawyer/Ahh—Life on da’ Mississippi

    HOW BOUT A LIL TRAVELIN MUSIC BY R*U*S*H*—http://tinyurl.com/yd4ekx --- let’s go shrimpin !!! .. ps so who sez rhynin gots to make sense?? .. in the eye of the beholder it serves as reference—to things we have in common .. and a mutual bond—INSURECTION—RESURECTION—WHAT’S LOST IS NOW FOUND ...

    Posted by richie from st james city/n ft myers FL --  on  05/01  at  11:11 PM

  9. Hello, Cool Observer, Joe of Maine, Zen Prole, JOS and Richie - and Happy May Day to all of you!

    We had a very rainy day today - mainly showers with the sun coming out in between.

    Here’s my link for today - excellent piece by Chalmers Johnson on the all-powerful military-industrial-congressional complex in the US (not that Australia is far behind):
    http://www.alternet.org/story/83555/

    We are having guests over this coming weekend, so I might not ‘call in’ before Monday/Sunday.  Have a good weekend!

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  05/02  at  04:07 AM

  10. Morning all.
    Our fellow earthicans have had enough and are learning to use weapons...

    And have a happy birthday weekend Mickey.

    Posted by Mew from clophill  on  05/02  at  05:46 AM

  11. Hello Expendables. I must say, the last few comments are extraordinary. Wow...thanks, all.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  05/02  at  06:00 AM

  12. The elderly woman in the soup line said americans have anally repressed feelings...I guess this was a polite way to say we are dead.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  05/02  at  04:52 PM

  13. LET’S ROAR.

    The problem’s too big
    the perpetrators unknown
    you can’t beat the system
    all on your own.
    So it’s easy to withdraw
    find your own little cage
    turn a blind eye to the suffering
    stifle your rage,
    but the greed goes on
    the poverty’s still there,
    you can’t just leave it
    for your children to bear.
    Others feel as you do
    eager to put things right
    but locked in isolation
    it’s a hopeless fight,
    so don’t sit in silence
    behind a closed door,
    your voice can help raise
    a whisper to a roar.

    Posted by John Couzin from Glasgow UK  on  05/04  at  03:51 PM

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