Contra Contract, Love's Work

Turbines spin dominion.
The seductive hum
of articulate current
promises heaven.

Dour knaves rouse jaded monks.
Seasoned moths know better
than to singe wings in fire.

Burnt skin skies
flush my love's eyes
weeping cinders.

No politics or apology,
I'm in love with this world.
It blooms bright
as skin burns.

All turmoil,
turbines' hum,
washed away by
warm blood.

Backhand Eyed Sibylline(A Look Forward to 2014)

Sed quoniam mea causa expedita est, videamus nunc quid haruspices dicant.
Cicero, De Haruspicum Responsis. 

*Please read disclaimer at end.


1. Erdogan indicted for corruption and forced out of office in Turkey.

2. More unrest in Egypt and, as now, met by brutal repression.

3. Civil War intensifies in Iraq.

4. South Sudan regime collapses. US/NATO, in support of clients, rush in to another quagmire.

5. Abe's economic policy leads to banking crisis in Japan.

6. China offers bond purchase program to help Japan in exchange for island rights in South China Sea.

7. US fails to scuttle deal between Japan and China.

8. Israel escalates bombing campaign in Lebanon to take attention off crimes in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in West Bank.

9. Assad consolidates power despite Saudi/GCC/Western support of terror groups.

10. ISIS becomes #1 Al Qaeda group US focuses on by March. ISIS was funded and armed by Saudis/GCC and US/NATO for past 6 years.

11. Obama's approval ratings drop to record lows. ACA will continue to be a disaster.

12. Democrats will lose Senate majority and seats in House.

13. Market correction in April.

14. Peace talks with Iran collapse, as planned by US.

15. Libya descends into a full blown civil war.

16. Pakistan refuses to allow US/NATO to transport fuel, munitions, etc on their roads in protest of Drone strikes.

17. UN condemns US Drone Strike assassination policy as a violation of International Law.

18. Push for war with Iran in US fails due to lack of public support in fall.

19. General Sisi, dictator of Egypt, is assassinated.

20. After market correction in April widespread riots in US.

21. US client state in Yemen collapses. Saudi Arabia invades with US air support.

22. Greater US Military presence in Colombia as well as first use of Drone Strike Assassination in Western Hemisphere against resistance groups.

23. Taliban offensive in May nearly takes Kabul.



*These visions are inspired by the Deity. They do not exhibit any parti pris.

Somniloquy

Venerie,
hunting disease.

Columbian litigation,
human bone
heap mountains.

Archivists weep ink
on dust,
death in measure.

Laws ghostwritten
spirit
hidden treasure.

An Epitaph

      "In all societies, which are simply a union of minds, a common character is formed. This universal soul adopts a way of thinking which is the effect of a chain of infinite causes which multiply and combine century by century. Once the tone has been given and received, it alone governs, and everything that sovereigns, magistrates, and peoples may do or imagine, whether it seems to conflict with the tone or to follow it, always relates to it, and it dominates even the total destruction of the society."

                                           
                                     

                                       Mes Pensees, Montesquieu.

Happy Holidays

May Tricks

So many titles for us:
Consumer, citizen, worker, and the ponderous
Community;
Take those pills.
They may not make life better,
but best to make it go.

Be thankful the great few
acknowledge us in classified
nomenclature.

Subjects of charts and graphs,
stacked higher than Babel,

Reaching a reasonable Heaven
supervisory Gods orchestrate.

We must cherish sacrifice,
for we are always asleep.

They live our collective dream.
Our civic duty is to be happy
(Collateral damage of
Beautifully choreographed
Genocide).

Their license demands our payment.

Stupid Shit Fascists Do that Western Media Loves to Capture on Film and Show Over and Over Again

Marion Heights, August 1952

Agnes smiled when Lover dropped her off and said he'd be around to pick her up at closing time. She'd heard that before. He laughed when Agnes took up the wagon and guaranteed she wouldn't need it.
     It was late August. The days were dry and warm. Around 4 cool winds came as the Sun lowered. At 5 Agnes stopped working and gathered up groceries to take home.
     The sky spread callous orange above the store's closing. Agnes stood out front waiting for Lover. The owner wished Agnes good evening and walked to his house across the street. She bowed her head a little and told him to have a nice evening.
     Lover was across town at the Tavern on his 5th round. Life's good when others buy long as he keeps singing "Old Shep".
     Agnes took her wagon down the road home. Cool wind stroked her graying black hair back. She was 35 with a youthful face, her body strong. Home's only 2 more miles, no better weather for a long walk.
     When Mr. Bell slowed to a stop beside Agnes and offered a ride, she turned her head, laughed, and said the exercise kept her young.
     Dusk gave to night as Agnes pulled her wagon into the door. Her sister had the kids. Lover wasn't home.

Thanks

US National Security, Forever Led by Unapologetic Psychopaths

The World's Indispensable Killer and Arms Dealer

"I can go no farther here. I should be counted censorious, and perhaps unjust, if I should enter into the unpleasing work of reflecting, whatever cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner of wickedness among us, which I was so much of an eye-witness of myself."
--- A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe. 

Waves

"Yes kids, your Daddy's really good at killing people."

New shitty book out details how President Obama bragged to aides that he's "really good at killing people." Source:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/obama-brag-new-book-im-really-good-killing-drones/

Clearance

"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be so had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."


               
                    ----Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Preface.
               
       

NCAA and Militarism, Plantation Prop for Empire

Duke basketball players taking target practice at West Point, Coach K's alma mater.

"Love Feels Good Though We Stuck in the Hood"

Sweet song from Ghost.

K/M

"It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find complete rest in which to adopt a position: backwards." 
         
                                                
                                                 Soren Kierkegaard, Journals IV A 164 (1843)

11

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

                    

                    Marx, Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Das Atta Kapitroll

Three cheers for the Lumpenproletariat Marx despised. Disciplined workers as the ultimate bearers of class consciousness betrays a burgher's(or bookkeeper's) priggishness. Marxism should welcome those who refuse to engage in disciplined labor. Lumpenproletarians shirking socially accepted forms of labor amply display keen class consciousness. To exclude them renders the anointed working class's "heroic struggle" reactionary.


(bittersweet apologies to Harry Heine)

Supernova

"The daring flames peeped in and saw from far
The awful beauties of the sacred choir,
But, since it was profaned by civil war,
Heav'n thought it fit to have it purged by fire."
John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, 276.

September Storms

Like the scent of rain suggests showers,
facts are fairy tales awaiting a moral.