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Politics for Poets

politics of the here and now

Full Moon

howling for another reason. Not howling because of politics. As if.

Some people need to get over themselves.

An ecclipse of the Sun by The Moon occured while Jesus was being crucified. We use the passive tense because it tends to not put blame on any one group or person. All of them are dead and gone, and noone alive today should be blamed. It's a story, as well as abotu everything else, about the failure of institution to prevent atrocity against an innocent. It's a story of institutional failure at all levels of governance. We shouldn't see it as about any particular type of people, even though they show up in the story. It's really a story about how human society often fails to be just.

Studying a chart of ancient ecclipses of the Sun, one might come up with a list of possible days for the actual date of the Crucifiction of Christ.

how about an old draft poem from 4 years ago?
from poem page 211
 At 8:24:57 PM EDT on Sun Apr 8, 2012 bperil wrote:

  What the artist knows
   he isn't going to say he knows
  he knows better than to claim to know
  but then, as the beer takes over
    he forgets to know to know not to know
   and starts to think that he knows that people don't know
  what they think that they know oh
      no no no ya don't
  and all like that the thoughts
   just turning into hypnotic sounds
 and presented as if it's somekind of philosophy of life
  which it isn't
 and telling you about the heart
 but it doesn't know anything about it
 and presenting bad behaviour
     as  if it is funny when it isn't.

  He fails in his  unknowing to know
     what it is that he doesn't know.
  He fails in his not learning
  to know what to learn to not learn, and what
   to learn to earn
    and how to learn to live
      and be from the bay to the bridge
 to the edge of the sky
      where the Winter is banished
  because he's that kind of guy, stuff
   that makes no sense if you need it to
    but doesn't have to be so clear
     as to leave you wondering what side
     of it you are fastened to.

  The poet never claimed to know
      what all of his words could seem to mean to anyone,
   how could he know that?
     That poet doesn't even need to know
     what these words mean now, hope nothing mean, I miss you.

March 22, 2016

10:44 PM

 
Nonviolent
Response
is the only valid
Political
Response

snark aside
or
snarkacide

I don't want to kill snark
but let people learn 
the appropriate comic
use

if you want a snarkacide, then why
would you insert a snarky aside.

Is it snarky, funny snarky or just
lame snarky?

show of hands for who that
love the police!

🖐Love🖑
🖑Cops🖐

Wanna see a cool demo page which is also a plug for the artist John Barents of Brookline, Massachusetts? Barent's Carousel

MISSING YOU TONIGHT

a song in the tradition of crooners
and lovers true

words and lyrics by Billy

Missing you
tonight
Missing you
while the moon is bright
tonight
tonight
I'll ne'er be blue
when I'm with you.
Missing you
tonight
sound of the forest
and star light
tonight
tonight
while the river is bright
with the Moon reflecting
as rivers of light

Missing you
tonight
Missing you
while the Moon is bright

the forest sways
the river sasheys
the clouds roll in
but they just augment the sight

Missing you
tonight
Missing you
with the moon so bright
tonight
I'll never be blue
I'll never be blue
if I'm with you



logos for Amillia Publishing 
company. 

  

What they claim is good
 for 'the environment' 
   really sucks 
  for the forest.

    
    
🖐Love🖑
🖑Cops🖐

Watch This

show of hands for who that
love the police!
🖐Love🖑
🖑Cops🖐

these can get you banned from school?!:
🔫 🚀 🚙🚤🚣c🍀⚜⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣🚣
🚣🚣🚣  🚀  🚀🔨🔨🔨⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣
🔨 🚙 🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣
⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣


You can't speak in hiroglyphs

even Know-it-all-will-tell-yaa:
When people complaign about the words 
you use often they don't really want to 
hear what you have to say.

spinfont unicode-isms
🍀 Praise God! 🍀
🍀⏲⏱⏰⏲⏱🔫⏰⏰⏲⏱🔫⏰⏰🍀
🎠 
🎠 
🎠 
🔫  careful you might get bad-listed
🔨🔨 


ban the hammer
ban the hammer?
is that sarcasm?

calling into question the agenda and the urge?
careful, you might get bad-listed.

oh my dear
you've been
crying
for change
but
you have to understand
most things
always stay the same
you can't go off riding
on the happy trails to range
far and wide
up to the sky
she is not here
you're not 
her guy.

Oh my dear
you've been crying
for relevence
but you have to understand
that most hours pass
without anyone noticing
anything
anything
about you
but you still matter
You still matter.
you still matter
even though no body seems to care

Delete and repeat, delete.

will? Maybe I've not ordered the elements properly. Well that little snippit doesn't work that well but t

 
When you're alone on the train
you aren't really alone
there are all kinds of other people
traveling on that same line,
going in a similar direction,
very many destinations
end of the line.
 🚀 🚙🚤🚣c🍀⚜⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣🚣
🚣🚣🚣  🚀  🚀🔨🔨🔨⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣
🔨 🚙 🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣
⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣⏲⏱⏰🚣🚣
🖐

sub 🖐🖑 🖑🖐

Here is today's pretty poem:

  

When Eternity starts
you don't really know.
 
    

Big moon
in the midnight sky
big big moon
all across the sky
you can see the crowd
as the marching band
marches by
take the crowd a'dancing
off toward the stars.

🖐🖑
🖑🖐
   
 🖐🖑

🖐🖑 🖑🖐

 ♥♥?

There's a river
of infinite love
flooding from on high
through the heart of all.

There's a river
of infinite hope
flushing through the gorges
through the heart of all.

Spread your wings and fly away
off into your day
off into your all


🖐🖑
🖑🖐


glossry of what's next
 ♥♥? : 

Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

Wake up!


You know I thought you was the Buddha
I must have been tripping
on a great big hootta
unn ha haa

wake up and sniff the Buddha

  Praise God!

♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ because ♥♥ He's ♥♥ Wonderful ♥♥ and ♥♥ Awesome ♥♥!!

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