I know I've thought this and am sure I've written and/or typed it but typing it now: there are no second chances painting so there's no editing, no fixing, no anguishing over what was done, no dicking with done shit, just moving forward, abandon sooner than later. The five lines above: how I heard that in my head times the edits already by counting to ten, I can't make it less shitty by editing but I *could* fuck it up more and lessen the rush of completion, I know this disqualifies me as a poet down to the level I am not an artist but I've known this since I edited my first poem in 1971
My left eye. Told yesterday by Eyedoc Jr he wants to yoink out my cataracts this Fall, says otherwise any RX for glasses will grow obsolete within a year after filling, he wants to spare me the cost of new glasses each year, fine metaphors abound
Too, 16 years since my obamapostasy viz motherfucking professional Democrats, I'm deeply embarrassed and ashamed to find myself angry at my congressman from MD-8, Jamie Raskin, a still-enslaved shitlord kapo who performatively prances as a cracker-ridiculing populist progressive Democrat, who not only supports the Zionist genocide of Palestinians (while receiving generous AIPAC donations) but voted yesterday to ban IcToktay, if asked he no doubt would say he did so to prevent the corpse of Mao from reading my texts to my daughter about her new puppy. National security, see? My right eye (both bigger here)
National security? Shitlords' frenzied you're hearing/seeing unauthorized content that breaks shitlord kayfabe, look at the on-demand bipartisanship of congress to limit the sources you use to inform your thoughts and life, borg implants (you think I'm just making a shitty Next Gen allusion, this IS in the works, I guaranfuckentee) will have eager bipartisan support. The deeper the broken kayfabe the more irreparable the kayfabe, the more determined are shitlords to insist you eat their kayfabe, so, fascism, so: fucking duh I needed to puke
"Young voters, black voters, Arab and Muslim voters are fleeing the Democratic Party at a critical electoral juncture because of our anti-Palestinian policies. To win them back, our plan is to ban their favorite website."
"They are clinging to Israel, not because they have a genuine belief Israel is a force for good, not because they believe in religious Zionism, not even because they believe it is a necessary colonialist project in the Middle East, but because it has been for decades their totem, the very badge of political respectability, the membership card for the political country club. Israel is now toxic to the public and the entire history of ethnic cleansing, massacre and long genocide on which the very existence of Israel is based, is now laid bare. The political class are now in a panic, and lashing out everywhere. Police powers to limit free assembly were already hugely increased just last year by the Public Order Act 2023, where any demonstration which is noisy or causes inconvenience can be banned. Now we have calls from the responsible ministers for pro-Palestinian demonstrations to be banned because they offend their sensibilities in a way they are finding difficult to define"
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ReplyDeleteGo to the Limits of Your Longing
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated and read by Joanna Macy
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.
Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.
Give me your hand.
Book of Hours, I 59
a "listen" button with a link to joanna macy's reading is at
https://onbeing.org/poetry/go-to-the-limits-of-your-longing/