July 9, 2004
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white bears
In a bright room
Of bright white coats
We sit in scientific meditation
Watching the passing
Of clipboards and the
Voice of authority telling us
To think of anything but
White bears.Of course,
Amidst a penguin bevy of
Ambitions’ froth and surfing
Or the drumming of pens ticking,
And splashes of dinner cooking,
The fur and colourAre all I see
In the greedy forced
Forgotten hands
Of memory.
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Beans in a makeshift pan
Are cooked with the blue
Flame of sternos stolen fromA wedding banquet.
The breeze of joy
Rides stolen from the
Nodding winged eyes of
Red jacket seraphim
Offering a little justice.The multi-harmony tunes
Make you charge
Viscerally at a wall
Where images prance
Of a helluva good time.But you might be
Surprised to find
The party’s for you.
But you’ll crouch to huddle
With beans and sardinesAs you piss, moan
And rage.
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around the cake (w. thiebaud)
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re: Sudan
“We want to see dramatic improvements on the ground right now. But despite the promises that have been made, we have yet to see these dramatic improvements. Only actions, not words, can win the race against death in Darfur,” Powell told reporters in Washington on Thursday.
France refuses to acknowledge the bad. But Human Rights groups and the US combine to think differently. One case where the “no blood for oil” cry involves a country other than the US. TotalFinaElf has by far the largest holdings.
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FRIDAY!
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Awesome:
we were shootin’ at a mountain of dirt…
Comments (5)
good stuff brother.
Thiebaud…love his series of cakes, and the slanted SF landscapes as well.
Why have I never heard of Thiebaud? Going to check him out now…
hola mi amigo. parskid is real nifty yea? hehe im heading out now. have a good weekend ok? :pv
i LOVE that cake picture… and that banjo in modest mouse.
i first heard modest mouse in a paul frank store. i asked the guy with hair like sideshow bob, what band is this?! and he whipped out his CDs, curls bobbing, grin widening, delighted to spread the appreciation!
it’s difficult to understand irony these days. everything’s beyond me it seems. i’ll just wait til everything in my mind sorts itself out. adrift, appreciating your poetry and the posted art.