What Really Kills Me Is Standing in the Need of Prayer I'm Standing in the Need of Jokes That Come Back

• Found my Go-Between stash yesterday while looking for something else.
• Here, some links fished Sunday morning before Act Three of My Brother-in-Law's wedding.
• Acts One and Two were fine, highlighted in Act Two by an old man who looked like Gauron who posted himself beside the open bar and didn't move the rest of the night. 
• Yes, 30% of the motivation for this post was that gag. I knew it the instant I saw him.
• I didn't realize Rob had reopened the shop.
• The cybernetics of Occupy: an anarchist perspective.
• More defenders have meant more goals: All defenders make mistakes. On Thursday, Gary Cahill’s poor positioning and misjudgment of the flight of the ball left Luis Suarez with a free run at goal to score the 86th minute goal that chucked England out of the tournament. But Cahill will always find forgiveness from English fans because not only is he a talented defender, but he has the short back and sides, steely-eyed seriousness and complete lack of adventure that assures the English that their goal is being defended by a good, honest, straightforward sort of chap. When Luiz made mistakes for Chelsea, these were invariably taken as symptoms of profound personal failure as a center half. Not only had he been caught out of position, or risked dribbling past an opponent, but he had done so with a trademark mop of long curly hair and an unmistakable sense of personal style.
• Fine metaphors abound: the above applies to more than half of English language lit-bloggers when judging English language lit-bloggers too. Though I'm bald. 
• Adding, this blog may indeed be shitty, though the above bullet is true. 
• The ninety-minute anxiety dream: The positive lesson to be learned from the negative dialectic of England’s failure can be summarized in two words: Costa Rica. Los Ticos have shown tactically how soccer should be played. They maintain a high defensive line, they are incredibly well-organized by their passionate and very shrewd coach, Jorge Luis Pinto, they are physically fit, young, and strong, they relentlessly close down the opposition in midfield, they have great passing accuracy and are fast on the break into attack. Costa Rica didn’t just win against Italy, they completely dominated the Italians in every part of the game.
• Catenaccio is dead! Or at least resting. Hardly any buses have been parked – most matches, with a few exceptions, have been free-flowing. Among the explanations so far: sides are trying to emulate Spain’s one-time-dominant tiki-taka; the heat is causing more gaffes; formations are more fluid; the international talent gap is closing; and the spate of early strikes has forced sides to attack. The goals per game stats are the best since 1958 – which was also the last time England folded in the group stage.
• England out? What did you expect?
• Secrets of the keeper.

• Lit-links.
• Full metal Zizek.
• Serendipitously if inadvertently, the same author mentioned in the above is mentioned here. I have access to a university library's stacks and will check out said author, though I am sure to fail the scifi test again.
• Meanwhile, sssh, 2013's failed Year of Reading Calmer Stupor is resurrected and 2014's Year of Reading Car Elm Sprout is proceeding calmer, without stupor.
• Maggie's weekly links.
• { feuilleton }'s weekly links.
• Adrienne Rich poem.
• Another poem that's not Auden's on Brueghel's Icarus.
• I had picked up John Taggart's In Music three or four years ago, the book got buried on my desk, it needed to be returned to the consortium school I had borrowed it from and I unforgivably forgot about it. Good thing I still have access to a university's consortium loan services.

ALL THE STEPS

John Taggert

     1

Those who hear the train they had better worry worry

those who hear they had better worry worry.
 

     2

No disgrace to worry to have the worried life blues

might do some good to be worried in the hour of our need.
 

     3

Run run run away going to run run run away

there are those who think they’re going to run away.
 

     4

To hear and to be facing and to be facing what is heard

to hear and to be face to face with what is heard.
 

     5

Run run run away they’re going to run run run away

there are those who think they’re going to run away from the train.
 

     6

Fort built to protect the community from desert raiders

community thought to protect itself from raiders.
 

     7

Those who hear the train they had better worry worry

better worry worry about a gift of tears.
 

     8

Those who are gathered in the fort had better learn

they had better learn how to cure their wounds.
  

     9

The train with its poison and its tongue

the lurking train with its poison and its tongue.
 

     10

Those who are gathered better learn to be insensitive

learn how to put on a show of being insensitive.
 

     11

Danger of its poison and of its tongue

danger of its poison and of its tongue against our teeth.
 

     12

Had better break the habit the habit of prayer

better let the jokes come back to us when we’re at prayer.
 

     13

What really kills me is standing in the need of prayer

standing in a gathering in the need of prayer.
 

     14

Don’t if we don’t if we don’t break the habit

we will be made to climb all the steps of the ladder.

     15

Brood over someone else’s dream: three-story red tower

beneath the tower the train is always departing.
 

     16

Danger of its tongue for those gathered like a group

gathered like a group of all virgins with their downcast eyes.
 

     17

There is this problem with cutting off the prayer hand

there is this problem with the other hand.
 

     18

How insensitive is how those who hear better be

how insensitive how unmoved and cold they had better be.
 

     19

You can call him you can call him up and ask him

if we had only asked for “Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny.
 

     20

Red tower green sky three-story tower against green sky

beneath the tower the train is always departing.
 

     21

Don’t break it be made to climb all the steps

we don’t break it we’ll be made to climb all the steps.
 

     22

Ant on the floor the small ant on the kitchen floor

the small ant anticipates by sound or shadow.
 

     23

Light turns out in the kitchen when somebody pulls on the string

those gathered not able to anticipate the danger.
 

     24

If we had only stayed in the school of the prophets

in the school of the prophets who catch thoughts from words.

     25

Ant on the floor the small ant on the kitchen floor

those gathered not able to anticipate the danger.
 

     26

Those who are gathered are fondled and taken by the hand

taken by the hand and made to climb all the steps.
 

     27

Perfectly built fort bound to make the community unhappy

bound to make those in the community unhappy.
 

     28

What really kills me is standing in the need of prayer

I’m standing in the need of jokes that come back.
 

     29

Standing in the need of prayer in a perfectly built fort

bound to make you unhappy bound to make me unhappy.

     30

Not broken the habit of prayer not been broken

those who are gathered better learn how to cure their wounds.