In my email feed this Thurstay morning:
The Future Belongs to the PoetPoetic OutlawsBy: Henry Miller"We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not the future. The future always has and always will belong to—the poet.”
Although I think all of life is poetry, it’s freaking hard for me to see poetry in a lot of human dramas, say for examples, the war in Palestine, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Democrats, Republicans, MAGAs, KKK, Antifa, Proud Boys, Christendom, Judaism, Islam, Ukraine, American politics, etc. barf, etc. barf, etc. barf. I think it’s not the zombie apocalypse future that belongs to the poets, as there might not be a future, the way humanity is killing the planet, as well as many of its own members and mangling the psyches and souls of the temporary survivors. I think it’s the present, the now, today, that belongs to the poets, for it looks to me that it is the poets, the artists, the writers, the musicians, who answer only to their Muse, who feel, sense and see what is really going on, and if they don’t speak to it, call it out, parade it naked devoid of fig leaves, the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly and the horrible, who will at least have tried to bare the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them God, cross their heart and hope to die and burn in hell forever, if they don’t right now love and praise what is good and beautiful, and assault and ravage and fuck and cut to ribbons that which opposes what is real and important and valuable and necessary and precious?
Ethan Summers
it's hard to change anything when you speak to so many deaf ears
Sloan Bashinsky
The Muse demands air time, her slaves ignore her and experience her sorrow, displeasure, wrath, even?
Ears receive mention in this poem :-)"Eve's Answer”
Vexing Truth
Life is Poetry,
Poetry is Life,
There's no more to say,
but that wouldmake God
a really dull boy,
now wouldn't it, Eve?
So, Eve,What say you?
After all,You have been,
still are,
blamed,for everything that went wrong
with hu - MAN - i - ty.Well, do you really want to hear
what I gotta say?
Is this one of those
be careful what you ask for pregnancies?
Well, is it?
Probably, but say what you wish -
I s'pect you need to be heard.
Heard?
Funny you mention ears.
Yes, ears.
Such important receptacles.
Yet filled with concrete,
shit, propaganda, beliefs,certainties,
well, let's not leave out
SUPERSTITION and RELIGION,
now should we?
By the way,
where do ya suppose
God came from?
Or, out of?
And, why do ya s'pose
I made Eve
in my own IMAGE?’
'Cause Adam was
so bored and dull -
so ... predictable
He was BORING!!!
the shit outta me!!!
That's why.
Now
Shusssssh -
Don't go round quoting me
on any of that -
I've had quite enough of
the religious right
ta last methe rest of forever!
Ethan Summers
Well, if God is pleased or rather entertained then who am I to comment?
Sloan Bashinsky
I think She was not even slightly pleased, and maybe she might appreciate any help you can lend her? :-)
Ethan Summers
Sadly, I haven't been blessed with the gifts necessary to please the gods. Yet, if that helps in any way, I try to use my ears as well as I can, as I imagine most people in this community do ☺️
Sloan Bashinsky
I think the gods are appeased when people use their gifts and don’t get swallowed up and stifled by joining herds and losing their individuality, common sense, decency and openness to change and appreciation of mystery and adventure.
In that r-e-g-a-r=d, a snippet from the Australian armchair war expert Caitlin Johnstone’s palace ...
Karen Williams
I haven't said this aloud yet, but how sick is it to murder your own citizens to prevent their future use as bargaining chips (the likely real reason), or even to prevent their possible death at the hands of Hamas.
What evidence there is (notably from the only released Israeli hostage who was allowed to speak publicly before being whisked off out of sight by the Israeli government) suggests that Hamas was trying to engineer another prisoner exchange like the one that happened in 2011 (Israel released 1,027 people from jail in exchange for the captured soldier Gilad Shalit) and was not brainlessly engaging in an orgy of violence as the Israeli government claimed.
Sloan Bashinsky
How about the orgy of rape used by Hamas’s soldiers on 0ct 7? And the orgy of Hamas soldiers killing unarmed men, women and children on Oct 7? And the orgy of Hamas taking children hostages back to Gaza on October 7. I swan, if this forum mostly doesn’t seem to be another brainwashed cult. Certainly, Israel’s response to Oct 7, where it happened in Israel, and then in Gaza, has been atrocious. But you folks that don’t give Hamas credit for provoking Israel to do precisely what it did in Gaza seem to be to me to be as brainwashed as the lemmings who worship Joe Biden and the lemmings who worship Donald Trump.
Karen Williams
It is not in dispute that Israeli troops were being trained to execute the "Hannibal protocol." It is very much in dispute that Hamas raped even one woman or mutilated even one woman or child. Some of the evidence was proven to be fabricated, and the rest is not available for examination.
Did you read any of the material about Oct 7 on The Grayzone, mintpressnews, etc.? It certainly doesn't seem like you did.
Sloan Bashinsky
Well, do you suppose Hamas also knew that Israel’s soldiers were being trained to execute the “Hannibal protocol”, and that is precisely what Hamas hoped would be executed in Gaza after the Oct 7 attack? I swan, why cannot YOU SEE THAT HAMAS WANTED ISRAEL TO OBLlTERATE GAZA? What has happened to you that you cannot see what is in plain view? Please take a few days to ponder that, before you weigh in again like you are a programed member of a cult.
sloanbahinsky@yahoo.com
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