Vile Rank

There will never be a ship
Named Trump in US Navy
Unless it has a Kremlin flag
And steam powered hamberders

 My great uncle the rear admiral
Would smack Dons faux epaulettes
Off his bathtub were he alive

I'd sick my Lt Colonel uncle
On sick Drumpf if our potus weren't
Bone spur impaired

I'd tell my corporal dad
To sharpshoot Dim Dong if
I believed violence worked.

I'd teach my daughters
Less magic and more PR
Skills if you weren't
The problems coloring book guru
And their crayons torn
Paper

Adaptismal

O the wind and rain Oklahoma
Sweeping down aerial oceans,
Sending water moccasins onto rooftops
Launching snapping turtles
In soups of chemical brine covering
The church graveyard.
Pluck a grey hair from the mare
To mend the fiddle bow,
Cimarron soft shell turtles
Swim the new dustbowl mud
Over the banks
And their fiscal lies.
Helicopters noodle stranded citizens
Out of dark unseemly quagmires
Jesus forgot to subsidize.
Two million gallons per second
Top keystone,
The masonry is torn from below
Where speedboat parts return their nylons
To the oily muck.
O the wind and rain,
Doppler dunce hats and silo caps
Take featherless wing
Where monarch armies once clouded
Sky in black and orange.
Cowpokes tie ropes to their livestock
And pull their last rare beef
Off the barn beams.
God didn't forsake you
You thick lumps. Take your little
Lumps and red meat prayers,
Head for higher ground to spot the twister
Wiping the gas stations off
The map. Up the winding stair
Mountains is true
Grit and autotuned country hits,
The ancient seas are
Back, teeming with antediluvian foes.
Jesus on stilts
Will shepherd your kin if they
Believe in the
Wrath of sour grapes and elemental science. Eat the whole storm
And get free pontoons with a fill up.
O the mind and b
-rain

McCains good ghost

Megan McCain says "leave my father out of presidential politics"

Too bad, too late. John McCain listed off dictator names to Amy Klobochar at the inauguration of fascist Trump.

If so, that's a piece of history.

McCain ran for President and chose Sarah Palin, utterly unfit for office.

If the McCain family cares about John's legacy, they have to fight for more than a false narrative or a peace born of placating their GOP buddies.

All the GOP are complicit in Trump's obstruction and criminal reign.

Quit the Party or quit hushing critics of Trump and his fascist, bigoted, fraudulent friends.

Liz Cheney gangrene

Liz and Lindsey fascist pigs
Look what I did to her sons
Dim Dong Drumpf says of Barbara Bush
Dick Cheney whose heart
Is made of Saudi foreskin
Look what Republicans have become
Putrid weaklings in Putin's asshole
Breathing smog of their foul acts
And calling it a zephyr
The next worst humanity has to offer
When time fracks Liz Cheney's snout
Watch heaven do a merry jig
When craven Lindsey Graham is
Wearing high heels in hell and Trudy Giuliani is drunk on rotting possum bile
Wave your Kremlin flag
And fetch a doggie bag full of dollars
America the beautiful
Will prevail when vultures string their guts
Over the bloated beltway
Where treason has normalized in a trap
Full of gnawed off rodent limbs
And maggots turn up their noses
At the stench of what rich white Republicans embody:
Deaths droppings and vapid souls
Not worth nothing
But a kick in their evil lackluster mugs

Parable

The gnat swims my cup
Of elixir, riding waves of careful
Sips. I drain the
Sweet dregs and strand the groggy mite
On inescapable sheer glass
But use a nearby
Wooden
Clothespin clipped to the rim,
Set it next to the buddha,
Return to making
Music
Soon we see our hero,
There on buddha's dry
Everest
I

Ekone in winter

Dumb Drivers and Shit for Enforcement in Portland

Hit by a car day before yesterday while on a sidewalk

Watched as a SUV nearly ran over a guy on an electric scooter in a crosswalk yesterday

Today a car pulling a camper trailer pulled forward fully blocking the crosswalk at division and 122, and as  I motioned for h to back up he flipped me off

Golden Filth in good condition (sic)

Twerp talk right off the bat
Into center field, why run into a fence
To play bohemian Olympic contests
Against ones own side I ask as
"A retard or crazy man"
As long labelled by the unreal estate guy
Who is happy to share a hammock
But little else
Despite rampant bragging on
Illustrious wealth, property,
And the dubious distinctions that gloating entails, scum goddess from
The lower Eastside how were they
To know only 3 weeks into the pickle
That his cuke was a cuckold?
Not that self restraint needs a jacket
With connected sleeves, just
A steady stream of lawyers
To unwrap like furniture, keeping only
The styrofoam for backup pillows or
Snacks for "guests"
It'll fill their belly like most hollow lies
And also slow them down
After we confiscate their brand new
Bohemian shoes they bought
With disability coupons.
When one needs a fiddle player
Go cheap as you can
Cuz the side costs add up
Best get one or two
Fer $10 an hour by the burnedside
Bridge, bridge sagging with homemade
Shit. Fug you
Twit, and your one star
"Everyone loves me"
Sense of self review that easily plagiarizes
Paradise, until caught
Like a greasy baby
In a center fielders mitt
Mimicked once too often to denigrate
As instant replay clearly
This gig sport illustrates, chasing the ball
Over those blue hills
It's not my record that's the problem
It's their fancy bent needle
And a turntable wobbly from the get go.

Second hand

Funny to get coaxed to the record shop
And they have the one
You're on
Is that good or sad?

Moot music

Moot music moved most memories
From farm forms
To toothed truths,
Distant dust decided deciduous dreams.
Etcetera eclectic electives
Leaves left land leery.

Stump art

-rain

Beware the symbols of symbols forgotten

I read at the bus stop

Having left the theater as parliament

Gloriously exploded in fireworks

Beware our brain the Sun

All blazers and their screens

This overtime charade of vendetta

Hear on moving day renditioned

By friendly nappers and tortured

By our own good

Baptised in the rooftop rain

Portland cries on their popcorn

Fake butter the grease of grease so tasty

Eve said blog is in the rain wrung out

To dry in baskets 

Pick up the peaces cuz it's out the door

As a drop blotted b

-rain and our fleet arrived to dismay

Pizza again

Spring sprung rainbow

Rip shitty

Oxymoronic
Pulley bull pit dunkathon
Basketball humans.

paper bleeds

i read in the news about some idiots
who tried to dig up and rootball
an 180 year old oak tree
and move it to their new home,
i read it on the internet
on a computer screen,
not in a newspaper or in a book
or other fragile
paper based product,
i read it with my eye-brain
still rooted firmly
in this cobblestoned skull,
i combed thru the follicles
of what men do
when they have too much 
and not enough
simultaneously.

March 4, 1988 Stillwater Newspress Artist Dean Bloodgood

Lonesome Houndogs Lawrence ks the Crossing

bring us the head of bannon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodias#/media/File:Herodias_with_the_Head_of_St._John_the_Baptist_-_Paul_Delaroche_-_Wallraf-Richartz_Museum_-_Cologne_-_Germany_2017.jpg


"Herodias's second husband was Herod Antipas (born before 20 B.C.; died after 39 A.D.) half-brother of Herod II (her first husband).

 He is best known today for his role in events that led to the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth."

departures (2005)

departures, where are

your papers?

how many........*waves*

define where you go,

if and if mostly
                             you stay?

blood, oil: repeat

"There will be blood"


"Occidental Petroleum has bid $57bn for Anadarko"

https://www.economist.com/business/2019/05/11/occidental-petroleum-has-bid-57bn-for-anadarko

________________



"1954: Purchased by the Chicago Corporation for $55,000,000. This parent company changed its name to Champlin Refining Company in 1956.

1964: The Celanese Company purchased the company.

1970: The company was sold to Union Pacific Corporation and was kept as a wholly owned subsidiary.

1984: The Retail business of Champlin was purchased by American Petrofina, after Champlin closed the refinery.around 1986, Union Pacific Corporation and Champlin Petroleum Company sold the Corpus Christi Refinery. ***

The Champlin trade name was part of the deal. Champlin's name was changed to Union Pacific Resources Company (UPRC).

During late 1990's, Union Pacific Corporation spun off the Union Pacific Resources Company.

2000: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Union Pacific Resources merged. The Anadarko name survived going forward."

____________


"CITGO became wholly owned by Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

That same year, the former Champlin Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, became a part of the company’s refining network."

_____________

" The character J. Arnold Ross in Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! (the inspiration for the 2007 film There Will Be Blood) is loosely based on Doheny."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L._Doheny


"Doheny is listed in the 1880 United States Census as a painter living in Prescott, Arizona.[6] Later in 1880, he was in the Black Range in western Sierra County of south-western New Mexico Territory, living in the rough silver-mining town of Kingston (about 10 miles (16 km) west of Hillsboro), prospecting, mining, and buying and trading mining claims.

 He worked in the famed Iron King mine, just north of Kingston, which drew men to the area. In Kingston, he met two men who later played important roles in his life: Albert Fall, the future Secretary of the Interior, and Charles A. Canfield, who became his business partner

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"Freeman Bloodgood obituary

Conesville Man Dies in West; Was Pioneer
July 1925

     Middleburgh, July 28. – 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."

https://schoharie.nygenweb.net/fbloodgoodobit.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66970277/freeman-bloodgood
________________

AOK biting duck (shadowography)

"The OK or ring gesture (Unicode symbol U+1F44C "👌") is performed by connecting the thumb and index finger into a circle, and holding the other fingers straight or relaxed away from the palm.

Commonly used by divers, it signifies "I am OK" or "Are you OK?" when underwater. In most English-speaking countries it denotes approval, agreement, and that all is well or "okay".

 In other contexts or cultures, this same gesture may have different meanings or connotations, including many that are negative, offensive, financial, numerical, devotional, or purely linguistic."

____________

"Ring gestures, formed by forefinger and thumb with remaining digits extended, appear in Greece at least as early as the fifth century BCE, and can be seen on painted vases as an expression of love, with thumb and forefinger mimicking kissing lips.

When proffered by one person toward another in Ancient Greece, the gesture was of one professing their love for another, and the sentiment was conveyed more in the touching of fingertips than in the ring that they formed.[1]

As an expression of assent and approval, the gesture can be traced back to first century Rome where the rhetorician Quintilian is recorded as having used it.[2] Quintilian's chironomy prescribed variations in context for the gesture's use during specific points of a speech: to open, give warning or praise or accusation, and then to close a declamation.[1]

Contemporaneously the sign appeared throughout the Buddhist and Hindu diasporas as a symbol of inner perfection.

Ethologist Desmond Morris posits that the joined thumb-and-forefinger communicates precision in grasping something literally or figuratively, and that the shape formed by their union represents the epitome of perfection—a circle—hence the gesture's transcultural message that things are "exactly right" or "perfect"

________________

"Dating back to the tenth century in Europe, the gesture of thumb and forefinger forming a ring with the remaining fingers extended was used in a set of standardized ecclesiastical signs employed by Christian monks under vows of silence to represent numerous religious rites and objects. "

________________

"In modern-day American Sign Language (ASL) the gesture can mean many different things depending on how it is applied. The pinching action of the thumb-and-forefinger frequently represents something small. For example, the sign for "housefly" is made by making the gesture mimic a fly buzzing around.[56] In ASL the gesture can also communicate a selection of some sort:

When moved from one side to the other as if picking something up and placing it down, it means "appoint". When the joined thumb and forefinger of the gesture are placed into a hole made by the opposite hand, it means "vote". The sign for "elect" is formed by making the signs for "vote" and "appoint" in succession"

_____________

"The gesture is used by doctors to test functionality of the anterior interosseous nerve and seek indications of median nerve palsy in the hands. When performing the test, a patient makes the OK gesture with both hands. If the circle formed by one hand appears more pinched or less round than the other, it may indicate weakness in the nerve.[82][83]

A similar medical test, known as Froment's sign, is used to test for palsy on the ulnar nerve. To perform the test, a patient holds a piece of paper between their forefinger and thumb, and the examiner attempts to pull it out of the patient's grip.[84] If ulnar nerve palsy is present, the patient will have difficulty maintaining their hold and may compensate by flexing the thumb to add more pressure."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture

_____________

Wikipedia leaves out the 100,000 year old practice of "shadowography."


"Since shadows have existed since the existence of objects obstructing light, it is hard to say when the art was first used by humans for entertainment. It could have been practiced by ancient or later humans, but it probably originated in the Far East.[2] The French entertainer Félicien Trewey was interested in the art of Chinese shadow puppetry called Ombres Chinoises, which means "Chinese shadows". He popularized the art of hand shadows when he developed shadows of famous silhouettes. It then became popular in Europe in the 19th century."

1984 plus One

"The Anne Frank House (Dutch: Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

During World War II, Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house, known as the Secret Annex (Dutch: Achterhuis)
__________

The house – and the one next door at number 265, which was later purchased by the museum – was built by Dirk van Delft in 1635."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank_House

___________



Sanctuary.

I visited the Anne Frank House in 1985, 40 years after the end of WW2 and the Holocaust.


Never again? OK, IMPEACH Trump and get rid of the bigots in Congress, K Street, and Wall Street.

Remember.

a mountain of clouds (2005)

the wizard's soil in a pouch of water

the moon behind a mountain of clouds made of birds

the muscles that move the eye within



the lake's thousand leagues of unwhispered remedies

the branches of vision seeking final repose of the acorn

the beginning of tying one's hair into a ship of mercy



the rocks that built her body out of milk

the wind in and of itself

the sleep actively awakening other forms



children and parents, grandmothers and fathers,

the food they gathered, the water that walked within them

the sky questioning, the flames warming



the instrument made of all earth and related positions

the ancient enchilada

the hands of a man







2005, the dalles, or

museum of modern moods (1998)

surreal hollering in

new sfmoma

gallery space, forest! forest! as

asian guards usually uptight and stern

laugh as she slaps

'em five under

pollock's guardian of the secret



***



bigboat go

toot, toot

moves



***



worked our way pleasantly

past matisses picassos diebenkorns

under one landscape she played

with her shoe

velcro arneson's great selfportrait

pedestal crumb

-ling to re

-veal the empty

nest around the critic comment



***



teenybirds

float alongside

nevertheless impossible

i believe

to run over per se



***



astute chaos surreal

exploded on the top floor

sparsely surrounded

by canvasses the size

of barndoors

splattered neonspooged

& watched over by

more guards, protecting

no secret, than flies

on vegan shit



***



...what time

was it, the fog, lifted

to ask...



***



beautiful the cold the cold

whistled wing the wind

etching the paper sack

paperstack tenpercent postconsumer

past redemption cooling

the beautiful cold

sea of departures



***



departures where are

your papers

how many waves

define where you go,

if you stay?







1994 san francisco

thunderstorm eighteen (1985)

blue harmonica dreams

stream across grey burlap eyes,

soothe with nuance softness

ears pointed toward distant sky

fields of grace aplenty

washed clean, noontime weep

the furrows gush a murky blood

into willing earth tears seep

the day of welcome wanes, dust beckons

the lights dim, sun rises on

another's land melting cloudy

on oklahoma's rim



(age 18, 1985)

round eighteen (1985)

the earth is round

but you can't touch the people

and the seas are wet

but you can't know yourself

the sun is warm

but you won't die in your sleep

and the sky is big but yer dreams are bigger

and harder to crush, realize & live with.



(age 18, 1985)

dreaming baby eighteen (1985)

i was riding second class youth eurail

amsterdam to geneva, two german

girls or silly women were sitting next to me

speaking to one another

giggling with furtive glances at me.

do you speak english? smile,

laugh, side to side nod no,

just a bit. oh.

i curled up in my space

a fetal position hands cupped to breast

content on my face sleep in my eye

shortly i awoke to hear snort snort stifle

why do you laugh? they reply,

blush of flirtation, you look like a

dreaming baby. slow bumpy

train ride, air so sweet.



(age 18, 1985)

rosslare (1985)

the pull of the tide, moons strength on earth

minute organisms and bonding glue

that dissolves in death the spray of grey ocean

as i wandered sickly into the dark

the ferry ship bridging peoples twixt and hither

after train ride from dublin to rosslare

trench coats with collars stiffly angled,

wandering beach driftwood smooth from battering slams

soft thru relentless beating of waters fist

pearly white baby ears, macaroni shells

whatever i wrote in natures chalkboard

how long did it stand? was the cauliflower growing

over the gloomy grey swirl merely another ferry

chugging steamy or was it offspring of yet more

driving dismal edge depleting

water pounding loves?



(age 18, 1985. Ireland)

forest in klickitat country

dean bloodgood paintings

Got collusion insurance?

Futility

Suffering diligence

Beautiful day,
Complicated people. Lap it up
With both tongues, both
Forked and buttering.
Empty responses ensure
Suffering
Diligence.

May Day

International Workers Day
May Day
Beltane

solidarity with nature
solidarity with working class people

death star floating in portland

l

buzz off BOT

I take note of my page views and their country of origin, and have an Italian-based BOT
or Spider or somesuch entity that looks at 60-80 "pages" every other day.

buzz off.

Festival of Sails San Francisco 2007

1946 Oklahoma May day

godanblot, freya's day

"If Jesus suffered and died, why is it called Good Friday?


The term "Good" as applied to Good Friday is an Old English expression meaning holy.

It's often called Holy Friday also."


https://www.al.com/life/2019/04/if-jesus-suffered-and-died-why-is-it-called-good-friday.html

"According to the New Testament, Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning, as in the upper room during the Last Supper he prepared himself and his disciples for his death.

He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed."


________________


"The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the "day of Frige", a result of an old convention associating the Germanic goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German, and vrijdag in Dutch.

The expected cognate name in Old Norse would be *friggjar-dagr. However, the name of Friday in Old Norse is frjá-dagr instead, indicating a loan of the week-day names from Low German.[3] The modern Scandinavian form is Fredag in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, meaning Freyja's day. The distinction between Freyja and Frigg in some Germanic mythologies is contested.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t


"The word blót is an Old Norse strong neuter noun (genitive blóts). The corresponding Old English neuter blōt (genitive blōtes) may be influenced by Old Norse; the Old English gospels have prefixed ge-blōt "sacrifice".

The reconstructed Proto-Germanic form of the noun is *blōtą "sacrifice, worship". Connected to this is the Proto-Germanic strong verb *blōtaną with descendants in Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (blōtan), Old Norse blóta, Old English blōtan and Old High German bluozan, all of which mean "to sacrifice, offer, worship".

The word also appears in a compound attested in Old Norse as blót-hús "house of worship" and in Old High German as bluoz-hūz "temple". With a different nominative affix, the same stem is found in the Proto-Germanic noun *blōstrą "sacrifice" — attested in Gothic *𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍃𐍄𐍂 (*blostr) in 𐌾𐌿𐌸-𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (guþ-blostreis) "worshipper of God" and Old High German bluostar "offering, sacrifice").

 This stem is thought to be connected to the Proto-Germanic verb *blōaną "to blow; to bloom, blossom", as are the words for "blood" (Proto-Germanic *blōþą) and "bloom" (Proto-Germanic *blōmô).

 Sophus Bugge was the first to suggest a connection between blót and the Latin flamen (< *flădmen), and both words can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European stem *bhlād- "to bubble forth; to mumble, murmur, blather".

The Summer blót was undertaken in the middle of April (about four weeks after the spring equinox) and it was given to Odin.[5] Then, they drank for victory in war and this blót was the starting date for Viking expeditions and wars."






" Ybor and Agio called upon Frea, Godan's wife. Frea counseled them that "at sunrise the Winnil[i] should come, and that their women, with their hair let down around the face in the likeness of a beard should also come with their husbands".

At sunrise, Frea turned Godan's bed around to face east and woke him. Godan saw the Winnili, including their whiskered women, and asked "who are those Long-beards?" Frea responded to Godan, "As you have given them a name, give them also the victory".

Godan did so, "so that they should defend themselves according to his counsel and obtain the victory". Thenceforth the Winnili were known as the Langobards (Langobardic "long-beards")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

red actions thwart justice

"Barr made nearly 1,000 redactions in Mueller report

How many redactions?

Attorney general William Barr’s office made nearly 1,000 redactions in the Mueller report, mostly on the basis that revealing the information would cause “harm to an ongoing matter” , according to a Reuters analysis."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/apr/19/mueller-report-donald-trump-latest-news-live-updates-subpoena

___________________


good guess yesterday.

____________________


Attorney General William P. Barr’s office grouped redactions into four categories.

 The vast majority of redactions were material from grand jury proceedings, kept secret by law, or details whose public disclosure could jeopardize ongoing investigations.

 To a lesser degree, material was redacted if it could “compromise sources and methods” used in intelligence gathering or would “unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/mueller-report-redactions/?utm_term=.ec905d3a287c


_____________________


Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin, Kaveladze, Samochornov

oh Agalarovs

Felix Sater
Michael Mukasey

etc etc etc

It's time the United States kissed and made up with Iran.(1987, Letter to the Editor)

November 5, 1987
Letter to The Kansan, Lawrence Kansas:


It's time the United States kissed and made up with Iran. Face it, we need their oil, and we need
translations for their torture manuals. The U.S. could learn a lot from Iran and their methods of
dealing with "deviants." Although the U.S. has been oozing down escalator of individual
freedom at a pretty decent rate for a capitalistic dictatorship, we'll need diesel-powered sneakers
to revert to the modern-day practices of Iran.
     I'm sure we can do it and you, the voter, are just the person to tie those red-white-n'blue laces.
Do it nice and tight like a noose or corset.
     A headline on October 13 read "Iranian executed by stoning." This immediately piqued my
hope for mankind. I mean, how often do you actually get to read about first-rate, modern-day
Salems? Top notch coverage, eh?
     The story reported that an Iranian clergyman was executed by stoning after being found guilty
of "gross immorality, drinking alcohol, possessing narcotics." Whew, and they say you can't have
a good time in Tehran!
     But think about how the United States could benefit in adopting such a policy.
     It's obvious that the first to go would have to be the door-to-door salesmen/evangelists such
as Jim Baker and ol' Oral. And if we took Reagan's Cabinet and staff members, we'd find ourselves
being ruled by the White House hairdresser------maybe we already are.
     McFarlane failed at overdosing on sleeping pills, and Reagan has to be shovel-fed uppers to
stay awake and man the Red Button. Poindexter reeled off close to 190 "I don't remembers"
during the Contra-expose, leaving him buried in a heavy heap of fraud. North and his cast of
millions, formerly lead by Bill Casey, or whomever of the Chronically Ignorant Agency, are still
thumbing through the land-mine section of a Sear's catalog, looking to lose some Swiss change.
     Taking this lot of losers and judging them as one big Incompetent, we find ourselves looking
for bricks and smiling. And we don't need to stop with the government and pulpit; we can just
go down the line and kill ourselves as well.
     Maybe the U.S. could open dialogue with the moderates of Iran if we sent them midnight
shipments of sandstone and granite. But then, we never know when we may need the stones
to build our own Berlinese Wall over the rights of the individual.
     Nancy must have gotten quite a shock when she read the aforementioned headlines about
executions by stoning: "Those drug-pushing fanatics, O heavens those barbarians!" She
undoubtedly fails to think of the way in which our country murders its own citizens. We stone
them to death using lethal intravenous---heinous injections-----everything is tidy and quiet.
     What an awesome head rush.
     It all boils down to something similar to this: Our governments are closet sado-masochists.
The U.S. hangs around the schoolyard after dark, knowing well the fanatical bully is walking
toward visionary Mecca at all times. Then we find Iran dropping firecrackers at our nuclear
tugboats and planting whoopie-cushion mines before our microscopic omnipotent eyes.
     We just need to form a corporate merger and be friends again. They need McDonalds like
the plague, and we could learn the mechanics of happy genocide.

F. Bloggod, Stillwater, Okla. Junior
(University of Kansas, The Kansan "Mailbox" Nov. 5, 1987
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wild hunt

If houses were built on former roads, they could be burnt down, because Odin did not change his plans if he had formerly travelled on a road there.

 Not even charcoal kilns could be built on disused roads, because if Odin was hunting the kiln would be ablaze

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt

Leader of the Wild Hunt[edit]

• Brittany: King Arthur.^[32]
• 
  
• Catalonia (Spain): Count Arnau (el comte Arnau), a legendary nobleman from Ripollès, who for his rapacious cruelty and lechery is condemned to ride to hounds for eternity while his flesh is devoured by flames. He is the subject of a classic traditional Catalan ballad.^[33]
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• England: Woden;^[34] Herla; later de-heathenised as a Brythonic King who stayed too long at a fairy wedding feast and returned to find centuries had passed and the lands populated by Englishmen);^[35] Wild Edric, a Saxon rebel;^[36] Hereward the Wake; King Arthur; Herne the Hunter; St. Guthlac; Old Nick; Jan Tregeagle, a Cornish lawyer who escaped from Hell and is pursued by the devil's hounds. On Dartmoor, Dewer, Old Crockern or Sir Francis Drake.
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• France: Artus, King Arthur (Brittany); Lord of Gallery (Poitou).^{[citation needed]}
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• Germany: Wodan, Berchtold, Dietrich of Berne, Holda, Perchta, Wildes Gjait. The Squire of Rodenstein and Hans von Hackelberg (both Sabbath-breakers).^[37]
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• Guernsey: Herodias (Rides with witches at sea)^[38]
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• Ireland: Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna; Manannán—also known as The Fairy Cavalcade.^{[citation needed]}
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• Lombardy (Italy): King Beatrik, la Dona del Zöch (Lombard:the Lady of the Game).^[39]
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• Netherlands: Wodan, Gait met de hunties/hondjes (Gait with his little dogs), Derk met de hunties/hondjes (Derk with his little dogs), Derk met den beer (Derk with his boar/bear),het Glujende peerd (the glowing horse). Ronnekemère, Henske met de hondjes/Hänske mit de hond (Henske with his little dogs), Berend van Galen (Beerneken van Galen, Bèrndeken van Geulen, Bommen Berend or Beerneken, the bishop of Münster, Germany).
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• Scandinavia: Odin; Lussi; King Vold (Denmark); Valdemar Atterdag (Denmark); the witch Guro Rysserova and Sigurdsveinen (Norway).
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• Wales: Arawn or Gwyn ap Nudd, the Welsh god of the Underworld.
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• Slovenia: Jarnik (Jarilo), also called Volčji pastir (Wolf Herdsman). In some variations mythical wild Baba (similar to Perchta) leads the hunt.

norns sweet talk the swan

long necked bird, fish swallower
the past present future await
your preening
molt

stark hunger

he's on the bench with a shabby suitcase
on wheels, at the bus stop
no need for eye contact
until he approaches, and stammeringly
asks for help for a homeless person
i reach toward the 4 quarters in my pocket
and offer them into his
ragged young hands,
he's maybe 20. here, i say
reaching into my shoulder bag
for the granola bars
take these too, as he eagerly opens
the wrapper and starts
eating, walking off down the sidewalk
going somewhere to spend
that dollar or just keep from growing moss

tinderbox batshit

The wood for the soaring cathedral was first felled around 1160 to 1170, with some of it coming from trees thought to be 300 to 400 years old at the time they were chopped. 


That puts the oldest timber in the cathedral at nearly 1,300 years old.

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the ribs of our pagan mother released
over the awestruck city,
a forest of oak beams 1300 years old
and a fair bit of bat shit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_of_the_Boatmen

The Pillar of the Boatmen (French Pilier des nautes) is a monumental Roman column erected in Lutetia (modern Paris) in honour of Jupiter by the guild of boatmen in the 1st century AD

History of the Pillar[edit]

Some time in the 3rd century, the stone blocks that formed the pillar were broken into two and used to reinforce the foundations of the walls along the riverbank. Over time, the island grew slightly so that the 3rd-century wharfs are now a dozen metres from the banks of the modern river (Kruta 1883).

The Christian cathedral of St. Etienne was founded by Childebert in 528 AD on the site of the Gallo-Roman temple; Notre-Dame de Pariswas in turn built over this in 1163 AD.

The pillar was found on 6 March 1710 (not 1711, as is often erroneously stated) during the construction of a crypt under the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris and first published by Baudelot de Dairval in 1712 (Busson 1998, pp. 445–446). Not all of the pieces were recovered; for three of the tiers we have only the top half.

Street art Portland

the wild hunt, selene, norn, nemesis spake, semele, ixion, celebe,

the wild hunt 



fohn wind hard licks the wild hunt erupting

vultures drop, motionless, shadows disrupting

   moonlit groves, armies of faries

   thrashing acorns as tornadoes carry us



down stark roads over homes wrongful built,

for hearth-fires wodan keeps, unwise wood split

   undoing the road and what's come before

   and that which was known, once before sworn



dandy dogs hunting, stay on your steed

to touch ground when godan hunts; ashes guaranteed,

   our tender feet march not that fohn wind,

   rises hot focus up mountains sharp grin



   cutting god's ice beard, the spray off blood hooves;

   red roaming ghost kings, all sensible move

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          selene     





Selene drives her moon chariot wanton wise

pulling men-hearts out to later feed mice

   above green earth her palace so pale

   from craters her whims all mortals regale



moonstruck by proxy, the wine in our glasses

moondrunk the chipmunk, evading owl passes,

   Selene never parks her orb spinning high

   without clouds for hitch-posts cloistered nigh



formed of Phoebe, or maybe old Theia

fished in by gravity, mystery, the moon sees us;

   silhouette of substances similar, serene

   man is kind love until shown his own spleen



shining her trademark, all night she delivers

rolling foul heavens, arming cupid's deft quivers

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              norn     





Swans from swain broods emerge to the Norns

who thread twine, riverine, alluvial born;

   fates tend to puddle, well-tree over-ridden;

  the Norns sort us out, trophy in the midden



a root runs true or turns false no less,

carries our water, the ash of success

   the limbs roost above our imperiled crowns

   widow-maker swooping, silently browned



no fish to swan stalking, mirror calm lake,

no leaf left untasted, the hart there to take

   no dirt clod molested, the serpent true hiss

   there in Norn's weaving wand's illustriousness



   noblest of trees, well watered abides

   ribs crack oak coal, heat presides

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          nemesis spake     





Finally Nemesis spake, her truth a rake,

clawing man's crime piles he takes/takes

   for granted, till spark make bonfire;

   good, party ----get a marshmallow, dear



said Nemesis, whittling weeping willow

switches, laying castor&pollux egg on a pillow;

   mother of helen, cause of collection,

   armies assembled to die, perfection;



ceo, senator,  jocular newsguy, trump:

Watch for a chariot of griffins Clumped

   Yer frivolous Insolence and heads i remove

   Shrieked Nemesis      (her army approved)



daughter of  Ocean, her dagger primeval,

dim man-blood meet Nemesis, measured arch rival

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       semele       





bathing in the river, Semele took note yon eagle

bloody from blots to zeus, his attentions "regal"

   Semele demanded the god in full glory,

   thus reduced by thunderbolt, an immortal story;



from fires sprung son dio, wine god of frenzy

born to soothe  time and man, needing ectasy

   a phoenix not ready, zeus sewed in his thigh:

   dionysus, with river nymphs, and mystis, resides



raised in sheer mountains, with panthers, his wine,

wand tipped with spine-bone,             honey of pine

   mead's golden warm fuel        fires the dance

   epiphany blooms               in orgy perchance



  twice born, the grape low:

  wine risen, man knows:

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         ixion     



The centaur bow aflame in absolute fire,

breath cloud via spectograph no liar,

  primordial booze of all make and kind

  ethanol, vinyl,...no wonder centaur's blind



a black hole of methane, tongueless profane,

formaldehyde crib has all life to gain

  loaning out a cosmos to spare

  a rib boomerrang returns for its share



half man-horse,  his core brighter by far,

hera dumbly his target, zeus fixed Ix with tar,

   spinning eternal from fucking that cloud

   (in hearts distillation, purely not allowed)



  big bang banished, moby dick subsumed,

  punished with powers all self-consumed

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         cebele     





Say you know them sibyls of the sistine chapel;

you know the core, seed,        and bite of apple

   do you know that great Magna Mater,

   great mother, mountain planter,



Cybele seven thousand year worshipped,

iron from stars, her magnet, perfect

   cured incorrigible dionysus, raving

   grounded the grove and hearthstone, paving



altars blood worshiped, don't sneer now you mortal;

your fridge full of prophecy, awaiting, a portal;

   styrofoam chapel, all lined with the saints,

   st. bacon, st. whipped cream, st. plastic and paint



   moshing foot grinding the feet grapes undressing

   came first mothers music, mystery, sense blessings





Mt Tabor, Portland, Oregon

Jan 2, 2018