Spleen 68

The cock silent as lace and slow rain,
parce que personne sacks empty palaces.

Communard bones shook en rage
as students above ground
called their tombs la plage.

Banks where pretty women
smiled wide as boulevards,
singing slogans,
their eyes on young men who,
cent ans avant, buried reds sous les pavés.

Realists effaced the possible
avec Lacan flooded lacunae.

Entering the palace,
cocks, loud as ever,
crow.
               
                  In every intime non
                    grave reds heard
                         Foucault.

To Me

Atropos

             I
Above
crisp sails swell full cheek.

In white cloth,
                               bright as scant cloud
                               crossing Sun,
I pace the deck.

          II
Run blind
 threadless youth,
        heels break in time.

Hooked by form's lure,
she cuts livelier lines.

Spring Forward

Spring Fog, Black Bird at Margin

NATO Exists to Nurture Fascism in Europe

Leaders of Nations Bankrolling and Arming Fascism Cheering Their Efforts

Appointed Fascist PM of Italy with Cabinet

Fascist Leader of Spain Receives Support of President of World's #1 Fascist Financier of Fascism

Ukraine

Hungary

Greece

"The poor could live here too..."

"Nothing like the way it feels..."

h/t  www.blckdgrd.com

Dickens Never Gets Old

     "The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered,---the poor people liked it! It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes, ---a tavern where there was nothing to pay,---a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper, all the year round,---a brick and mortar Elysium where it was all play and no work. 'Oho!" said the board, looking very knowing; 'we are the fellows to set this to rights; we'll stop it all in no time.' So they established the rule, that all poor people should have, the alternative(for they could compel nobody, not they,) of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it. With this view, they contracted with the waterworks to lay on an unlimited supply of water, and with a corn-factor to supply periodically small quantities of oatmeal; and issued three of thin gruel a-day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Sundays. They made a great many other wise and humane regulations having reference to the ladies, which it is not necessary to repeat; kindly undertook to divorce poor married people, in consequence of the great expense of a suit in Doctors' Commons; and, instead of compelling a man to support his family as they had theretofore done, took his family away from him, and made him a bachelor! There is no telling how many applicants for relief under these last two heads would not have started up in all classes of society, if it had not been coupled with the workhouse. But they were long-headed men, and they had provided for this difficulty. The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people."

                  ---------- Dickens, Oliver Twist, Book I, Chapter 2.




                                       

This Little Angel Turns 3 Today

Clouds, Heavenly Gossamer

Rise, my sisters, Clouds eternal,
Shining bright with morning dew,
From the roaring Ocean's bosom
To the sky, the world to view.

-----Aristophanes, The Clouds, Act I, Scene 2.

"Electricity is dangerous when it is raw."

The Fascists in Ukraine Have an Old Friend

"Western Capital will liberate you as it has Iraq, Afghanistan, Estonia, Libya, etc.!"

Manicured Lawnzilla

"It is not impossible to witness an abnormal deviation in the hidden or visible operations of the laws of nature."
-----Lautreamont, Le Chants de Maldoror, Book IV, 7.

Bright Blue Seas Above

So that, above in yonder place,
Where love abides, and all is rest,
All we may be forever blest.

---Confessio Amantis, John Gower.

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.

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