6.23.2014

we'll meet, we'll meet

If I ventured in the slipstream, 
between the viaducts of your dream
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop 
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again 
To be born again

From the far side of the ocean
If I put the wheels in motion
And I stand with my arms behind me
And I'm pushin' on the door
Could you find me?
Would you kiss-a my eyes?
To lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again

There you go
Standin' with the look of avarice
Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter 
Showin' pictures on the wall
Whisperin' in the hall
And pointin' a finger at me
There you go, there you go
Standin' in the sun darlin'
With your arms behind you
And your eyes before

There you go
Takin' good care of your boy
Seein' that he's got clean clothes
Puttin' on his little red shoes
I see you know he's got clean clothes
A-puttin' on his little red shoes
A-pointin' a finger at me

And here I am
Standing in your sad arrest
Trying to do my very best
Lookin' straight at you
Comin' through, darlin'
Yeah, yeah, yeah

If I ventured in the slipstream
Between the viaducts of your dreams 
Where immobile steel rims crack
And the ditch in the back roads stop
Could you find me
Would you kiss-a my eyes
Lay me down
In silence easy
To be born again
To be born again
To be born again
To be born again

In another world, darlin'
In another world
In another time
Got a home on high

Ain't nothing but a stranger in this world
I'm nothing but a stranger in this world
I got a home on high
In another land
So far away
So far away

Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven
Way up in the heaven

In another time
In another place
In another time
In another place
Uuh, yeah, mmh

In a time
In another place
In a time
In another place
In another face


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the lone Imhotep

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How Do You Do?

Act for the people's benefit.
Trust them; Leave them alone

- tao te ching




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Hydration



Neruda: Water

Eveything on the earth bristled, the bramble
pricked the green thread
nibbled away, the petal fell, falling
until the only flower was the falling itself.
Water is another matter, 
has no direction but its own bright grace,
runs through all imaginable colors, 
takes limpid lessons
from stone, 
and in those functionings plays out
the unrealized ambitions of the foam.

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Empathy & Desire

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Heat / Index

The Crystal Ark / We Came To House

The Harper's Index, June Issue, 2014

HARPER’S INDEX
Percentage of all litter on U.S. roadways accounted for by cigarette butts : 36
Estimated additional hours Americans would spend stoned annually if marijuana were legal in most states : 30,000,000,000
Ounces of marijuana left so far this year in “amnesty boxes” at the Colorado Springs airport : 1.4
Boxes of cookies a Girl Scout sold in two hours this February outside a San Francisco marijuana dispensary : 117
Percentage change since 2000 in the average cost of food worldwide : +123
Portion of U.S. minimum-wage earners who are older than twenty- ve : 1/2
Number of inmates a Chicago county jail has successfully enrolled in Medicaid through provisions of Obamacare : 2,629
Percentage of all reported U.S. data breaches last year that occurred at health-care organizations : 43
Number of fraudulent background checks the rm that vetted Edward Snowden submitted to the U.S. government : 665,000
Email accounts a company specializing in spying on unfaithful partners hacked before being shut down by the FBI last year : 5,921
Percentage of same-sex marriages performed in Iowa that have been between people from out of state : 70
Years by which the life expectancy of an American with homophobic views is shorter than that of the average American : 2.5
By which the life expectancy of a gay person living in a homophobic community is : 12
Factor by which a Briton is more likely to die prematurely of loneliness than of obesity : 2
Portion of college students with symptoms of clinical depression who are not receiving mental-health services : 1/2
Percentage change in the Facebook activity of a newly single person on the day he or she is dumped : +225
Factor by which a person in the developing world is more likely to be diabetic if he or she has a television, computer, and car : 2.5
Estimated number of homeless people in Greece : 20,000
Of unoccupied homes there : 300,000
Amount of investment in Malta that will buy a foreigner E.U. citizenship, under a new Maltese law : $1,150,000
Number of mine-resistant trucks the Army plans to donate to domestic law enforcement and foreign governments : 12,400
Chances that a young Afghan man says he has never heard of 9/11 : 9 in 10
Percentage change in the number of active anti–federal government groups during President Obama’s rst term in of ce : +800
Since his reelection : –20
Amount in royalties the band Skinny Puppy is seeking for the use of its music during U.S. military interrogations : $666,000
Estimated percentage of women in the U.S. military who are “very interested” in taking combat positions : 9
Portion of American Catholics who believe that the Church should ordain women : 2/3
Percentage of U.S. married men who say their spouses vote the same way they do : 73
Of U.S. married women who say so : 49
Portion of U.S. kindergartners who are the children of single mothers : 2/5
Chance an average American child eats pizza on any given day : 1 in 5
Amount Americans spent on mayonnaise last year : $2,000,000,000
Portion of North American zoo elephants that are overweight : 3/4
Percentage change since 2004 in the total membership of the World Clown Association : –30
Amount an Italian chocolatier spent to construct a 1.5-ton life-size chocolate sculpture of Pope Francis : $41,847
Percentage change in the past decade in the number of U.S. lms and TV shows that featured an abortion-related plotline : +100
In the number of those plotlines that ended in an abortion : –14
Minimum percentage change in the past year in the number of reported cases of sexual assault in the U.S. military : +50
Date on which the Army suspended its chief sexual assault prosecutor for an alleged sexual assault : 2/21/2014
Figures cited are the latest available as of March 2014. Sources are listed on page 60.
“Harper’s Index” is a registered trademark.
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Even The Rain


Even The Rain:

Agha Shahid Ali
What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain?
But he has bought grief’s lottery, bought even the rain.

“our glosses / wanting in this world” “Can you remember?”
Anyone! “when we thought / the poets taught” even the rain?

After we died--That was it!--God left us in the dark.
And as we forgot the dark, we forgot even the rain.

Drought was over. Where was I? Drinks were on the house.
For mixers, my love, you’d poured--what?--even the rain.

Of this pear-shaped orange’s perfumed twist, I will say:
Extract Vermouth from the bergamot, even the rain.

How did the Enemy love you--with earth? air? and fire?
He held just one thing back till he got even: the rain.

This is God’s site for a new house of executions?
You swear by the Bible, Despot, even the rain?

After the bones--those flowers--this was found in the urn:
The lost river, ashes from the ghat, even the rain.

What was I to prophesy if not the end of the world?
A salt pillar for the lonely lot, even the rain.

How the air raged, desperate, streaming the earth with flames--
to help burn down my house, Fire sought even the rain.

He would raze the mountains, he would level the waves,
he would, to smooth his epic plot, even the rain.

New York belongs at daybreak to only me, just me--
to make this claim Memory’s brought even the rain.

They’ve found the knife that killed you, but whose prints are these?
No one has such small hands, Shahid, not even the rain.
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Haiku EP/ LP

One Flower
    on the cliffside
Nodding at the Canyon

- Jack Kerouac

EP
Angry Samoans: Inside My Brain. Full Album - 1980

LP
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