five foot three, dour is paisley

the contures of billy club
as wielded by dour s. paisley
follow conjecture's pepper-dismay
dispersal on the attorney salt-slacks.

repudiated overmuch,
blank stares load up with vision,
fees propogate, sidewalk observant,
 or not.                 perceived travails,

billowing sales on downtown frowns.
booted most rudely,
stuck in luncheons with frenemies,
such is the lot of satanic clerks in riot zoots

distinguishing, by power twice removed,
every pain and rendered slight
in accordance with their...mores& norms.
guard bless ya!

storied, but based in base deed,
flies make most of penultimate creed.
zealot harlot miscreant& me
do unto others the opposite of ms. paisley

grandmother lillie flatt soule delano bloodgood, le bon

DELANO FAMILY. The descendants of the Pilgram ancestor, Philip Delano, of Plymouth, have the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry in the old country for a dozen centuries. They have established the full right to bear the arms of the Delano family, which could be of no better stock and which embraces a host of distinguished men in its numbers.


The name is drived from the town of Lannoy, a few miles from Isla, now Lille, France. Away back in A. D., 863, this town was called Alnetum, later L'Annois and Lannoy. The meaning of the word is unknown. It has been spelled L'Annois, L'Annoe, L'Aulmais, L'Aulnoy, but more often Alnetum. Today Lannoy is a small manugacturing town, seven miles from Lille, with a population at the last census 1,904.

 The first Lord of Lannoy, progenitor of the family, was Hugues de Lannoy, mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096. On the same list was Simon do Alneto. A charte des Chanoines (cannons) de St. Pierre a Lille mentions Gilbert de Lannoy in 1171 and Hugues de Lannoy is mentioned in 1186. It is impossible to present in this place an extended history of the family in its early days in France. That has been done with remarkable care and apparent accuracy in the genealogy, which is authority for all said here about the origin and early history of the family. There seems to be no flaw in the following pedigree in the direct male line of the American emigrant, Philip Delano or Delanoy.

french pages and knight views

page views (knight view)

United States
135
France
93
Poland
28
Ireland
14
Turkey
12
Germany
6
Japan
6
Ukraine
6
United Kingdom
5
Philippines
4

sequestered krill cycle

chutzpah refers the measure,
tape is red, and cannot fathom a bridge
but covers oregon in track
sweats. damned when we do,
dunked when we don't
---a progressive trailblazer
wears loafers,
worn out on marble accelerators
reed college lays the riprap
over the riffraff,
alums
rule,
slide tools denote a classical learning
curve. the ladder i used to scale
the kingmakers lair gathers
dust, measuring baseboard trim
not knowing where to turn,
like a laurel and hardy skit that knocks down
bulls in china shops
guffaws----or laugh tracks,
piped in from the bigger fish
that hover, drones prone to pry
sea, taking in vote-krill
and spitting out
another year's suckers

between a rock and a hard place, gigs long gone

talk about "political hairballs," look at what Oregon is coughing up: all the krill from the Big Blue Whale

"How much does Wiener’s advice cost?

 According to state records, he took in more than $1.5 million in fees for this general election. And that doesn’t include what he may still be owed."
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http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-25179-no_matter_the_election_result_mark_wiener_will_be_.html
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Mark Wiener, the political consultant of choice for Democrats and those who want to raise taxes, has collected big bucks this election cycle to provide strategy to the following people and organizations:

1) Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber;

2) The Democratic Party of Oregon;

3) The Oregon Historical Society, which is asking Multnomah County voters to approve Measure 26-118;

4) The state Senate Democratic Leadership Fund;

5) The Measure 76 campaign to set aside lottery money permanently for state parks;

6) Planned Parenthood;

7) The Measure 26-114 campaign to establish a permanent tax base for the Multnomah County library system;

8 The public employee-funded Defend Oregon;

9) Oregon Climate PAC (funded by patent heir and winery owner Eric Lemelson);

10) The Oregon Education Association;

11) Metro President candidate Bob Stacey;

12) And a batch of Democratic candidates for the Legislature.

                                                                                      

(never got around to painting the trim, and never looked up my client's name, either.)

between a rock and a hard place, a wobbly can only hope to be the grass that cleaves the cement of the status quo.

there will be blood (or oil)

"When Hamm talks, politicians listen. He is, according to the Forbes list, the 35th-richest American, worth an estimated $10 billion—more than William Koch, T. Boone Pickens, and David Rockefeller Sr. combined—"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romneyhttp://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/harold-hamm-continental-resources-bakken-mitt-romney

"Battles between ranchers and oilmen might sound like relics of the Wild West—the stuff of films such as There Will Be Blood—but in North Dakota, they're all too current. Continental beat other oil companies to the punch by signing more leases and pumping oil faster and more aggressively than anyone.

But in its rush to cash in, the company has sometimes thwarted environmental laws, endangered workers, and overwhelmed small towns with more people and problems than they can handle."

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There Will Be Blood, based on an Upton Sinclair book, is based on Edward Doheny



"Word has been received here that Freeman Bloodgood, ninety-two, formerly of Conesville, near Middleburgh, is dead at State College, N. M. Mr. Bloodgood moved to New Mexico in 1881. He engaged in teaming and hauled freight between Las Vegas and White Oaks. He also hauled the first load of ore out of Kingston in New Mexico, when that place was a mining camp. The ore was hauled to Nut station before Deming was founded.

At Kingston he was a crony of Doheny, the oil magnate.

He later conducted a ranch in the Mogollones, after which he went into the cattle business near Kingston. He was born in New York state.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschoha/fbloodgoodobit.html

truth-force

more "gleanings" from Wikipedia on Armstice Day
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Gandhi proposed a series of rules for satyagrahis to follow in a resistance campaign:

harbour no anger

suffer the anger of the opponent

never retaliate to assaults or punishment; but do not submit, out of fear of punishment or assault, to an order given in anger

voluntarily submit to arrest or confiscation of your own property

if you are a trustee of property, defend that property (non-violently) from confiscation with your life

do not curse or swear

do not insult the opponent

neither salute nor insult the flag of your opponent or your opponent’s leaders

if anyone attempts to insult or assault your opponent, defend your opponent (non-violently) with your life

as a prisoner, behave courteously and obey prison regulations (except any that are contrary to self-respect)

as a prisoner, do not ask for special favourable treatment

as a prisoner, do not fast in an attempt to gain conveniences whose deprivation does not involve any injury to your self-respect

joyfully obey the orders of the leaders of the civil disobedience action

do not pick and choose amongst the orders you obey; if you find the action as a whole improper or immoral, sever your connection with the action entirely

do not make your participation conditional on your comrades taking care of your dependents while you are engaging in the campaign or are in prison; do not expect them to provide such support

do not become a cause of communal quarrels

do not take sides in such quarrels, but assist only that party which is demonstrably in the right; in the case of inter-religious conflict, give your life to protect (non-violently) those in danger on either side
avoid occasions that may give rise to communal quarrels

do not take part in processions that would wound the religious sensibilities of any community
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Satyagraha and the civil rights movement in the United States:

Satyagraha theory also influenced many other movements of civil resistance.

For example, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his autobiography about Gandhi's influence on his developing ideas regarding the civil rights movement in the United States:

"Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. I was particularly moved by his Salt March to the Sea and his numerous fasts.

The whole concept of Satyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. ... It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking."

antipathy laid off

no mean reward for labours,
i will have no other
as injury to one is an injury to all,
and work its own reward,
writing being a chore
that employs common language
aimed for streams to catch their flaked
golden worthless grains
of solstice sunlight
in okie silos, pipelined vestibules,
into our bodies and cars
on dates
we dine, and on our scars we brag,
missions never accomplished
until our head
drops in the royal bucket
understanding consultations of war
as a drama with consequence,
subjects being citizens,
otherwise known as bleeding heart
livingpoems
whose comprehension escapes me,
as winter sun flies
toward a slack dismissal of fracking
leaving denton
in a future with no water but bottled antipathy
laid off

golden fleece of enid? wheat. oil...all Ares needs

The following are the chief among the various interpretations of the fleece, with notes on sources and major critical discussions:

It represents royal power.

Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, Roman Farm Management, The Treatises of Cato and Varro, in English, with Notes of Modern Instances[18]
Braund, David (1994), Georgia In Antiquity, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 21–23
Popko, M. (1974) “Kult Swietego runa w hetyckiej Anatolii” [“The Cult of the Golden Fleece in Hittite Anatolia”], Preglad Orientalistyczuy 91, pp. 225–30 [In Russian]
Newman, John Kevin (2001) “The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream” (Theodore Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos (eds.). A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Leiden: Brill (Mnemosyne Supplement 217), 309-40)
Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), “The Golden Fleece: Myth, Euhemeristic Explanation and Archaeology”, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20, pp. 1–38[19]

It represents the flayed skin of Krios (‘Ram’), companion of Phrixus.

Diodorus Siculus 4. 47; cf. scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 2. 1144; 4. 119, citing Dionysus’ Argonautica
It represents a book on alchemy.
Palaephatus (fourth century BC) ‘On the Incredible’ (Festa, N. (ed.) (1902) Mythographi Graeca III, 2, Lipsiae, p. 89
John of Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548)

It represents a technique of writing in gold on parchment.

Haraxes of Pergamum (c. first to sixth century) (Jacoby, F. (1923) Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker I (Berlin), IIA, 490, fr. 37)

It represents a form of placer mining practiced in Georgia, for example.

Strabo (first century BC) Geography I, 2, 39 (Jones, H.L. (ed.) (1969) The Geography of Strabo (in eight volumes) London[20]
Tran, T (1992) "The Hydrometallurgy of Gold Processing", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (UK), 17, pp. 356–365
"Gold During the Classical Period"[21]
Shuker, Karl P. N. (1997), From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings, LLewellyn
Renault, Mary (2004), The Bull from the Sea, Arrow (Rand)
refuted in: Braund, David (1994), op. cit., p. 24 and Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), op. cit.

It represents the forgiveness of God

Müller, Karl Otfried (1844), Orchomenos und die Minyer, Breslau
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), The Voyage of the Argonauts, London: Methuen, p. 64 ff, 163 ff

It represents a rain cloud.

Forchhammer, P. W. (1857) Hellenica Berlin p. 205 ff, 330 ff
refuted in: Janet Ruth Bacon|Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents a land of golden grain.

Faust, Adolf (1898), Einige deutsche und griechische Sagen im Lichte ihrer ursprünglichen Bedeutung. Mulhausen
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the spring-hero.

Schroder, R. (1899), Argonautensage und Verwandtes, Poznań
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the sea reflecting the sun.

Vurthiem, V (1902), “De Argonautarum Vellere aureo”, Mnemosyne, New Series, XXX, pp. 54–67; XXXI, p. 116
Mannhardt, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, VII, p. 241 ff, 281 ff
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents the gilded prow of Phrixus’ ship.

Svoronos, M. (1914), in Journal International d’Archéologie Numismatique, XVI, pp. 81–152
refuted in: Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.

It represents a breed of sheep in ancient Georgia.

Ninck, M. (1921), “Die Bedeutung des Wassers im Kult und Leben der Alten,” Philologus Suppl 14.2, Leipzig
Ryder, M.L. (1991) "The last word on the Golden Fleece legend?" Oxford Journal of Archaeology 10, pp. 57–60
Smith, G.J. and Smith, A.J. (1992) “Jason's Golden Fleece,” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 11, pp. 119–20

It represents the riches imported from the East.

Bacon, Janet Ruth (1925), op. cit.
It represents the wealth or technology of Colchis.
Akaki Urushadze (1984), The Country of the Enchantress Medea, Tbilisi
Colchis[22]
Colchis, Land of the Golden Fleece[23]

It was a covering for a cult image of Zeus in the form of a ram.

Robert Graves (1944/1945), The Golden Fleece/Hercules, My Shipmate, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

It represents a fabric woven from sea silk.

Verrill, A. Hyatt (1950), Shell Collector’s Handbook, New York: Putnam, p. 77
Abbott, R. Tucker (1972), Kingdom of the Seashell, New York: Crown Publishers, p. 184
History of Sea Byssus Cloth[24]
Mussel Byssus Facts
refuted in:
Barber, Elizabeth J. W. (1991), Prehistoric textiles : the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
McKinley, Daniel (1999), “Pinna And Her Silken Beard: A Foray Into Historical Misappropriations,” Ars Textrina 29, pp. 9–29

It is about a voyage from Greece, through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Bailey, James R. (1973), The God Kings and the Titans; The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times, St. Martin's Press

It represents trading fleece dyed murex-purple for Georgian gold.

Silver, Morris (1992), Taking Ancient Mythology Economically, Leiden: Brill[25]

non aliud, pretium laborum non vile: veritas

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mevc/schermer.html

JACOB JANSE SCHERMERHORN, brewer and trader, b. 1622 in Waterland, Holland it is said although in 1654 his father was living in Amsterdam. He came to Beverwyck quite early.

He was arrested in 1648 at Fort Orange by order of Governor Stuyvesant on a charge of selling arms and ammunition to the Indians. His books and papers were seized and he was taken a prisoner to Fort Amsterdam where he was sentenced to banishment for five years together with confiscation of all his property.

By intervention by leading citizens, the first part of his sentence was revoked but his property was totally lost. This action was later a ground for complaint against Stuyvesant to the States General in Amsterdam.

He made his will 5/20/1688 and soon died at Schenectady
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in much greater detail:


http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/schermerhorn/chronicles/1b.html

Jannetie Egmont (Van Voorhout), wife of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, was born in Holland in 1633. Her father made a contract with Patroon Van Rensselaer, August 25, 1643, and in this document he is referred to as Cornelise Segertse Van Egmont. 

He sailed for America in Sept., 1643, by "Het Wapen Van Rensselaerwyck," with his wife, Brechje Jacobsen, 45 years old, and 6 children. 

He was about 44 years of age. His children were Cornelis, 22; Claes, 20; Seger, 14; Lysbeth, 16; Jannetie, 10, and Neeltie, 8. He was engaged as a farmer and was one of the first farmers of consequence in Rensselaerwyck, nearly all of the others at this time being fur traders. 

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The family of Egmont, prominent in Holland in the eleventh century, traced their descent from the Pagan kings. 

Their chateau was on the North Sea, about three miles west of Alkmaar, and from 1423 to 1558, they were at the height of their power. The family was divided into several branches and had in it 9 knights of the Golden Fleece.

Pre-eminent among all of the Egmonts was Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavre, "one of the most brilliant characters in history," as one historian records. He was born in the castle of La Haimaide, in Hainault, Nov. 18, 1522. In 1542, at the death of his brother Karl, he succeeded to the title and estates of the family, which, besides those of Holland, comprised the principality of Gavre, seven or eight baronies and a number of seignories.

In his youth Lamoral was page to the Emperor, Charles V, and when twenty-three years old he married Sabina of Luxembourg, Duchess of Bavaria and Countess Palatine of the Rhine, sister of the elector, Frederick III. Few royal weddings have been more brilliant. The Emperor, his brother Ferdinand, King of the Romans, with the Archduke Maximilian, all the Imperial Electors and a concourse of the principal nobles of the empire, were present on the occasion.

Lamoral participated in various campaigns during the reign of Charles V, who when he was only twenty-six, invested him with the order of the Golden Fleece, and appointed him to several confidential missions, such as sending him to England to seek the hand of Queen Mary for Philip II. 

After the succession of Philip to the throne, Lamoral gained great distinction in many of the campaigns of that period. He incurred the hatred of the Duke of Alva at the battle of St. Quentin, which would not have been fought except for the violent persuasion of Egmont in opposition to the advice of Alva. It was a brilliant victory, and Lamoral was the principal figure in the affray. In the following year he distinguished himself in the battle of Gravelines, and with this became the idol of the people. As a reward for his services he was made in 1559, by Philip II, Stadtholder of the Provences of Flanders and Artois and a member of the Council of State for the Low Countries. 

At the conclusion of the war, by the treaty of Cateau Cambresis, Egmont was one of the four hostages selected by the French king, as pledges for its execution. The attempt made by Philip to convert the Netherlands into a Spanish dependency and govern it by Spanish ministers, excited the resentment of Egmont and other ministers of the Netherlands aristocracy. Though Egmont was a good Catholic, nevertheless he had no desire to see his native country in the throes of the Spanish Inquisition.

 In January, 1565, he and others went to Spain to make known to the king the state of affairs and protest against the autocratic proceedings of Cardinal Granvella, the all-powerful minister of the regent Margaret of Parma, the latter having been appointed against the will of the Protestant party. He was received by Philip with ostentatious cordiality and flattered by the whole court, but the real object of his mission was evaded and he returned home without having accomplished anything for his people. The treacherous Philip, notwithstanding his fair promises to Egmont, sent instructions to the regent to abate nothing in the persecutions. Immediately after the arrival of the Duke of Alva in 1567, who had been sent as lieutenant-general of the Netherlands, Counts Egmont and Horn were seized and imprisoned in Ghent, afterwards being removed to Brussels, where they were tried by the "Council of Blood."

 Sentence was pronounced on the 4th of June, by Alva himself, in spite of the intercession of the Emperor Charles V, the elector Palatine, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the State of Brabant, and the piteous pleadings of his wife, who, with her eleven children, had by this time been reduced to want and had taken refuge in a convent.

 He was beheaded the next day, June 5, 1568, in company with Count Horn, and in the storm of indignation which arose, they were glorified as martyrs to Flemish freedom. This memorable episode proved to be the prelude of the famous revolt of the Netherlands, which ended in independence.

 In 1865 a monument to Counts Egmont and Horn, by Fraiken, was erected at Brussels. Louis Gallait (1810-1887), a Belgian painter, has among his chief works, "Egmont Preparing for Death," "Alva Looking Upon the Bodies of Egmont and Horn," "The Last Moments of Count Egmont." Goethe made of this historical episode the theme of a tragedy.

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The badge of the Order, in the form of a sheepskin, was suspended from a jewelled collar of firesteels in the shape of the letter B, for Burgundy, linked by flints; with the motto 

"Pretium Laborum Non Vile" ("No Mean Reward for Labours") engraved on the front of the central link, and Philip's motto "Non Aliud" ("I will have no other") on the back (non-royal knights of the Golden Fleece were forbidden to belong to any other order of knighthood).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Fleece

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n Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Aeëtes, Medea, Golden Fleece, fire-breathing bulls Khalkotauroi and the destination of the Argonauts.

Colchis is also thought to be the possible homeland of the Amazons.

According to the Greek mythology, Colchis was a fabulously wealthy land situated on the mysterious periphery of the heroic world. Here in the sacred grove of the war god Ares, King Aeëtes hung the Golden Fleece until it was seized by Jason and the Argonauts.

 Colchis was also the land where the mythological Prometheus was punished by being chained to a mountain while an eagle ate at his liver for revealing to humanity the secret of fire. 

Amazons also were said to be of Scythian origin from Colchis.

precursors

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"The Flushing Remonstrance was signed on December 27, 1657, by a group of English citizens who were affronted by persecution of Quakers and the religious policies of Stuyvesant.

None of them were Quakers themselves. The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which several citizens requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.

 It is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights.

The Remonstrance ends with:
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The law of love, peace and liberty in the states extending to Jews, Turks and Egyptians,
as they are considered sonnes of Adam,
which is the glory of the outward state of Holland,
 soe love, peace and liberty, extending to all in Christ Jesus,

 condemns hatred, war and bondage.
 And because our Saviour sayeth it is impossible but that offences will come,
 but woe unto him by whom they cometh,

 our desire is not to offend one of his little ones,
 in whatsoever form, name or title hee appears in,
 whether Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist
or Quaker,
 but shall be glad to see anything of God in any of them,
 desiring to doe unto all men as we desire all men should doe unto us,
which is the true law both of Church and State;
for our Saviour sayeth this is the law and the prophets.

Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us,
 we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them,
but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town,
and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences,
for we are bounde by the law of God and man
 to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man.

And this is according to the patent and charter of our Towne,
given unto us in the name of the States General,
which we are not willing to infringe, and violate,
but shall houlde to our patent and shall remaine,
your humble subjects, the inhabitants of Vlishing."

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"Flushing was the site of the first commercial tree nurseries in North America, the most prominent being the Prince, Bloodgood, and Parsons nurseries.

 Much of the northern section of Kissena Park, former site of the Parsons nursery, still contains a wide variety of exotic trees. The naming of streets intersecting Kissena Boulevard on its way toward Kissena Park celebrates this fact (Ash Avenue, Beech, Cherry ...Poplar, Quince, Rose).

 Flushing also supplied trees to the Greensward project, now known as Central Park in Manhattan."

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"Captain Frans Jansen Bloetgoet (Anglicized to Francis Bloodgood) (c. 1623 - 29 December 1676) was a Netherlander who immigrated to Flushing, Queens, He is the ancestor of the American Bloodgood family.

Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware river in 1659. They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.

Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death. Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.

 On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. He died on 29 December 1676."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Jansen_Bloetgoet

diminishing moral authority as hardball tool

making it personal, a section on every activist

docs.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/31/us/politics/31lobbyist-docs.html

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wash the days away

like a record needle @269rpms
the notes wash the days away like a sip
of tea or the blink of a squirrel

lawns of yawns surround the library
winds blow thru the brick
turning book pages into dinosaurs

how much time is wasted programming people
when love lasts but a ripple?

picking out a tombstone playing on
a trombone music mosaic myth
grave dirt soft

time is a threat we hold in our throats, sour
milk. why surrender?
why be haiku?


1986
K.U., Lawrence, Ks.

ugly oklahoma inclusion zone

i sit and wait in the university cafeteria
for my coffee to cool. "and what about that
good 'ole boy from midwest city? he was kinda
slow." two overweight businessmen
wear ugly brown ties. ugly
okies and leering foreigners park in the cafeteria
to watch the fatassed coeds carry their heaping
salad platters. the ugly
men have notebooks graphpaper and big calculators
strewn about their tables.
the middle easterners lounge with empty milk cartons and
spilled wild rice. when they go to class
they occupy the front row and
study most dilligently while at home in the dorm.

here in the cafeteria, they watch
american bacteria socialize



1985
OSU, Stillwater, Ok

ghosts playing croquet

ghosts playing croquet drift over wickets
gently knocking the colored balls
which roll as if on glass

a breeze lifts the flow of the ghosts
as they play thru the night
humming nameless tunes,
calculating their shots until the dawn



1986
Lawrence, Kansas