Category: Commentary
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The New York Commune or Purple Haze (2 of 2)
The New York Commune or Purple Haze (2 of 2) There were, including my traveling companion and myself, five men and a varying number of women. I use the term women loosely, as most were obviously runaways between the ages of thirteen and sixteen. Though when asked, they vehemently claimed to be eighteen. There were…
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The New York Commune or Purple Haze
The New York Commune or Purple Haze (part 1 of 2) During the mid-to-late ’60s, I read a string of Hermann Hesse novels. There was Journey to the East, Siddhartha, Damien, The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, and my personal favorite, Narcissus and Goldman. They struck sympathetic notes in me and affirmed my desire for a…
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Wisdom Of The Ancients
Wisdom Of The Ancients some say, Jesussome say, Lau Tsuthere’s MuhammadPlato, Gurgiff, Buddha,and Confucious tooonly to name a few– and that’s a mouthful – they say it’s tooambiguouswisdom is disguisedwhere’s theambiguity inliving simple lives it’s an ancient linelife allows no crimebut wisdom in disguiseshould make us realize that what goes upmust come backdown andmany things…
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A Season In Hell – Rimbaud and the Cruisers
My memory of Rimbaud was roused by a poem I read by one of the poets I’m following here in this forum recently (last couple of days). The poet refers to him in a line or two; and sorry, but I don’t remember which poem or poet… I do remember liking the poem. And when…
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Angel Food vs Devil’s Food
Angel food vs Devils food White vs ChocolateBland vs ExtraordinaryWhite vs brown ORHow about marbledMore like reality Why is whiteassociated withangles where didthat come fromWhy brown(chocolate)with devilsProbably theChristian cultof Judaism Alas God inA burning bushwas surely not whitebut some colorassociated withburning shrubberyperhaps yellowred or blue if hotenough Those religiousprogenitors weresurely not whitebut brown oroliveonly in…
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The Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the Room Sometimes, I get so tired of thinking and writing about it; or perhaps disallutioned is a better word for it. Nothing seems to change significantly, even though most of us know that it must for the survival of our species for more than a generation or two to come. Where…
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Gemini Mind
Gemini Mind Gemini mindsplit in twoknow theuniverse is finebut need tofix it still politics warswith sanityenlightenedrealizationsconfrontthe hubris ofcontemplations fight the goodfight tilldying daya nat’sheartfeltrage in a universeso vastwith extinctionsso fast asour present endstoo soon returnto the sourcebut relief ofoblivion –LE
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Establishment Gatekeepers and the Long Con
Establishment Gatekeepers and the Long Con A post from a friend showed up on my FB feed recently. It was discouraging to read. It was a dismissal of anything but establishment news (the mainstream media), the very echo chamber (propaganda arm) of our neoliberal and neocon establishment. Have we learned nothing in the last couple…
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Slower Than Guns
By Iron Butterfly from their 1970 album, Metamorphosis, points to the man-made environmental degradation well established in the zeitgeist long before our present crises… and apparently, we still haven’t learned. Slower Than Guns, by Iron Butterfly Can you feel the manmade mistAs it starts to twist your lungs?Slower than guns Breathe deepAs you enter sleepFeel…
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Solar Water Reclamation (poem)
Solar Water Reclamation Sparklingreclaimed waterslowly flows northin the edge ofthe otherwisedry lowerSanta Cruzthen to theGila and eventuallythe Colorado sun glares offacres ofsolar arraypoweringthe reclaimingengines disgorging thereclaimedreconstitutedamniotic fluidof life as predatorand preyobserve fromshadow-gorgedhidey-holes andshade-camouflagedcreviced walls and I stareat the arraywonderinghow it gotthis way dry riverbedspoisoned blue skiesplastic-laced foodsynthetic body-partsand lies, lies, lies but of coursewe do…
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