Whoa Woe Black Sheep Volvo

With eyes wide open
& not a sheep
flockin' after truck
& truck before you
turnin' left onto 10th street

Not alas
need my Steibel
blast you

back across a lane & a half
back to side street
your bleatin' flock came from

to ruminate your drivin' crud.

Winter Blue

Bikin' home for lunch
time
munch more golden

ditsy white

broad turns right-
before me, on-red

slams her brakes her blue

explore 're
skates over
gray gravel

Sky Dust

Gray sky drop down
round Greenville town
white dust of snow
spray all around

Snow drifted part
from town so crude
lift from my heart
a day most rude

Haruspicy

Ever notice how viscusly difficult it is anymore to find a good haruspex?

Just in case you were wondering ...

US against Them

We ARE them.

Trick Question

Q. If Mr. Obama is the 44^th President of the United States of America, how many individuals have been president?

A. 43 (Grover Cleveland was the 22^nd & the 24^th president).

Mr. Barack H. Obama :: 44th President of the United States

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States.

the ground beneath has shifted :: we will defeat you!

“We will not apologize for our way of life,
nor will we waver in its defense,

& for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents,
we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken;
you cannot outlast us, and

we will defeat you!”

—Mr. Obama, Pres. USA.
(Inauguration speech, 20 Jan 2009)

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. :: Favorite Quote*

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can [keep] him from lynching me,
and I think that is pretty important [too].”
—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from speech to the legislature of Massachusetts, April 1965)

* Slight mis-quote. Actually [keep] is “restrain” and [too] is “also”, but I slightly prefer the mis-quote.

Time Magazine :: Surprising case of condescending bullshit

Apr. 30, 1965 - “... if he had read a newspaper since the test ban treaty was signed on Aug. 5, 1963, ...” *

The kind of condescending bullshit one would expect in some racist cracker southern rag, but it is rather jarring to see it printed by so-called “respectable journalists” in Time magazine‽

“..., he should have known to be passe.” *

If I were to be a condescending bullshit artist, I might write, “Isn't it rather ignorant to print passé without accute é‽”

* “He also allowed as how [sic] he didn't mind having fellow civil rights leaders speak out against the U.S.'s [sic] try-to-win policy in Viet Nam, spoke up against, of all things [sic], nuclear bomb testing—an issue that, if he had read a newspaper since the test ban treaty was signed on Aug. 5, 1963 [sic], he should have known to be passe [sic].”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,898653,00.html
—Time magazine, King Moves North, Friday, Apr. 30, 1965.
If I were further to be a condescending bullshit artist, I might ask how it was that Time would have the clairvoyance to see that the test ban treaty would end all testing. (e.g. China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, & ... ???). Perhaps if Time's journalists or editors had read any newspaper since October 16, 1964 they may have had cause to question whether the test ban was holding‽

Hope color fades

As the setting sun goes down
color fades from red to brown

And the mighty hand displays
all the palette He arrays

Universal beauty found
in the twilight of our days
Hope will lift us from the ground
up to beauteous palette gaze

Up from pallet man arise
learn from gazing at the skies.

—Harmon Ronaldson

Inspired by the writing of the eminent American, Scholar, Historian, & Humanitarian,
Dr. John Hope Franklin.