grinding to fill a prescription

• Any one else find it strange that the Shitgibbon Shitstorm didn't shitstorm?
• Major League Baseball to experiment w starting extra innings w a runner on 2nd base.
• My damns, the ones I give, the ones I don't, some of them migrate between the two to my worrisome amusement. My local baseball team is owned by ogres even by oligarchal standards but the PxP local radio team is a tonic, the best broadcast I've ever. I'm curious to check my damn.
• I'm guessing they'll suck the damn out of me: it's gonna be a plodding 83 win season. This team had a window and it is called Last Year.
• I was indoctrinated to think damns must be held. That not giving a damn is akin to moral failure, a sin.
• I hope I will always have enough of a damn to say, Fuck the DH.
• But the Shitgibbon Shitstorm: someone got to Trump and talked him down from responding and/or took the phone from him. Last time Trump was banned Twaater it was 72 hours before he won POTUS. I'd have thought loofa-faced too much temptation.... 

   

• Some bad materialisms.
• Against Normalization: What I want to suggest is an actual comparison with Hitler that deserves thought. It’s what you might call the secret technique, a kind of rhetorical control that both Hitler and Trump used on their opponents, especially the media. And they’re not joking. If you’d received the threatening words and pictures I did during the campaign (one Tweet simply read “I gas Jews”), as did so many Jewish reporters and people of color, the sick bloodthirsty lust to terrify is unmistakably sincere.
• Political discourse in the time of Trump.
• A short history of the Trump family.
• Two blind rescue cats play. (h/t Hamster!)
• Lambchop LIVE! Sept 8, 2016! I know I'm a biased Lambchop fanboy, but this is motherfucking gorgeous.
• Lawrence English has new music.

BEAUTIFUL HABIT

Tom Raworth

greetings

as the door opened

ticking

please listen to this

food alone for all

the f.b.i. will continue

maybe you dozed off

i hung by that phone all night

suppose he talks

*

vida

later

aria

*

once upon a time

not looking for any thing

*

you’re on

your own

it’s off

it’s on

*

perhaps it means

ragged like that

golda my-yeer

         pre-meer

*

and pour the old box

down a drain

*

too  much news

said the news

*

r e  o l e

*

it’s us

or rust

listener

*

deep

personal

regret

looking

up

monday

*

we can save

your head or your body

we can shave

*

even

his admission

is

a subtle lie

*

in suspense

what is cut into

the smallest of the

*

grinding

to fill

a prescription

*

drum to the wobble and a roll on the sea

come to mind an article of light

distance through distance unfinished

*

piano

*

willing to believe

*

national

anthem

hearer

*

 

perfect rhyme to some

all cars

kept in doors

*

sophisticated

newsmen

show how

it could have been

*

retreat

from the swiss

legation

*

numbers

for an event

*

corruption

why not?

*

infinite

detail

is no more real

*

thought

             against

                          power

*

answer

it

*

hooked

to just another

piece of tape

hooked

to just one more

little piece of tape

*

through words in to

no

record

*

writer

righter

riter

*

am:

i

on replay?

*

all you

do is

expand

the system

*

a polaroid

of la

with the wrong

voice print

*

astronaut

amazed

at what

was expected