Be Here Now

in love
continually
with life perhaps
(being shy) may require

1. detachment

"It’s not about impressing people, it’s about moving them. I always found my mother extremely moving because she had no boobs. The girl who has the perfect body, like Betty Paige, freaks me out. My son writes on my jeans with big markers; I’m always writing poems on my arms with black pen and cutting my hair very short on the sideburns to have a profile like Napoleon. I like having those weird, tweaky things. It’s a stupid girl thing, but it’s better to not look your best so that people can imagine that the best is really much better [laughing]."

yes 2. laughing
3. a drug or two,
while 4. wearing these shoes



sometimes helps
5. a dalai lama memory
6. sidestepping (not even)
around spongy ground
full of melting snow

bangs cover your eyes,
migratory
bird.
I sing!

Love Struck

"A color blind country is a false hope. Martin Luther King jr. did not want us to be colorblind in the sense the concept usually used today - he wanted us to be love-struck by one another. Being love-struck by your fellow citizen means embracing their humanity - which includes their color, culture and history." - Cornel West, in Rolling Stone

Ain't No Time to Wonder Why...

What happens when you have an unbridled military-industrial-neocon complex?

Adm. William "Fox" Fallon, top U.S. commander in the Middle East, last of the Vietnam vets in the high command (The Man Between War and Peace), submitted his resignation as head of Central Command. According to former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Patrick Lang, Fallon told him, upon taking over at Centcom, that war with Iran "isn't going to happen on my watch.(antiwar.com)

"...the Bush administration intends to go out with a bang – one that will shake not only the Middle East but this country to its very foundations." - Justin Raimondo

Photo by Peter Yang

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