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Monthly Archives: April 2004
W.M.D.
wealthy men decide worldwide military dependency whitehouse motives dubious war means death without meaningful direction wholesale media duplicity wanton mercenary demonstrations willful misinformation dissemination wrongful misuse doctrine winner molded demographics warped mission definition wholly moronic defense whitewashed mind denial well … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged coersion, deception, fear, George W Bush, Iraq, justification, mass media, war
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America, I know your secret
America, I know your secret: there is no deep intellectual struggle fermenting in your collective mind — that’s for the coasts to sort out amongst themselves, with their isolationist disdain for solidarity, thinking that beyond the Holland Tunnel, above the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged America, coersion, governments, hypocrisy, ignorance, independence, patriotism, rebellion, secrets
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Staggering Fact of the Day
It is estimated that when Allen Ginsberg died, besides the manuscripts (both his own and those he schlepped around for friends), miscellaneous papers and other drafts for publication, he had over 60,000 pieces of correspondence, representing every letter he had … Continue reading
Outside the Morphology of Poetics
For about two years, I have immersed myself in the classic forms of Poetry, forcing myself when I write to use common stanza forms with their dictates of rhyme and meter. I felt this was a necessary exercise to “formalize” … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Berklee, education, morphology, mysticism, poetics
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While Reading of Ginsberg’s Life
To wake while reading William Blake to taste of life in dreamlike doses flexing the sinews of the mind in the fight against some status quo that lumbers, like a Clydesdale pair to drag a dying culture’s broken-wheeled cart along … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, change, culture, dreams, growth, poetry, William Blake
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