Mesa 2002

  

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Great Reputation

  

"They’re great people. Great people with a great reputation. I have to say that,” Trump said. “Great reputation." 

"They’re great people.  

Great people with a great reputation.  

I have to say that,” Trump said. 

 “Great reputation." 

"They’re great pedophiles.

Great perverts with a great reputation.

" I have to say that,” Trump said. “Great Republicans." 

 

"They’re great people.  

Great people with a great reputation. 

  

"I have to say that,” Trump said.  "

“Great reputation." 

"Robert Morris, a founding pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway megachurch, was accused by an Oklahoma woman of sexual abuse in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12 and continuing until the age of 16." 

her own statement to the Christian Post, the victim of the assault said she was “appalled” at the description of her as a “young lady” and said the repeated abuse had taken decades for her to process.  

Morris was never criminally charged and by the time his accuser decided to explore legal action 

she was advised the statute of limitations for criminal or civil action had probably expired."

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/17/pastor-robert-morris-sexual-abuse-trump-adviser

 

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"Five of the world’s biggest banks are “greenwashing” their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report that indicates that their environmental and social guidelines fail to cover more than 70% of the rainforest. 

"The banks try to wash their hands of the blame through vague policies but must be held accountable for the damage their money is causing to Amazonian Indigenous peoples and the biodiversity of the rainforest..

 Not a single drop of Amazon oil has been extracted with the consent of Indigenous peoples.  "

We demand 

 Citibank, 

JPMorgan Chase,  

Itaú Unibanco 

, Santander and 

 Bank of America  

to end oil and gas financing.”  

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/worlds-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-in-destruction-of-the-amazon

 

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Forest age 17 Stillwater

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Same old ocean

  

On the shores of Corfu from Brindisi we drank ouzo and got rooms at the pink palace the beach rooms past cheap 

On isla mujeres my hammock only yards away from coconut trees and waters only matched by Corfu 

The Oaxaca ocean fierce we nude sunbathed as tides pulled less prudent swimmers out in undertow 

Toward Maui the black rock pebbles sorting babies out into grains of the darkest glittering sand 

The pockets get heavy 

Collecting, keeping these treasures 

The California ocean beaches so varied 

Up and down every inch we drove and swam 

The Oregon rivers great and smaller lending ocean what exchanges sun and moon require 

Waves burst out of volcanic formations we'd teeter around risking it all 

The placid beaches so many vacations play sand frisbee and unicorn horn sweet 

The coasts of Washington with driftwood blocking even mountains collapse into surf, logs thick ancient entwined with one another 

Leaping off cliffs 40 feet  plunge north of Seattle 

 around the San Juans by ferry another fine stone collecting endeavor and food with gone friends 

Swimming there in Isla mujeres with snorkel the fish one only sees in magazines or television stupor 

Monterrey, San Clemente, Mendocino, Carmel, Point Reyes 

The waters around long island 

It was awhile back even further back on a summer drive to the Smithsonian we ate crabs using mallets 

In Galveston the jelly fish stings 

A different same ocean all around 

The wharves in Newport with fat seals hogging the dock belching for cameras 

Ireland ocean Rosslare the English channel via hovercraft 

Same thing all around 

SE Portland 

Landlocked 

Kashmir not integral

' Indian authorities have granted permission for the prosecution of the Booker prize-winning  

Indian novelist Arundhati Roy 

 over comments she made about Kashmir at an event in 2010. 

Roy, 62, is one of India’s most famous living authors, her activism and outspoken criticism of Modi’s government, including over laws targeting minorities 

The decision to prosecute was denounced by the Communist party of India (Marxist), which said in a statement:  

“Condemnable. The Delhi LG has granted permission to prosecute Arundhati Roy 

 under the draconian UAPA [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act]  

 

For a speech reportedly made 14 years ago – in 2010.  

Defies logic except the fascist kind. Timing is suspect since courts are on vacation, as are lawyers.” 

The UAPA – under which the prosecution has been granted – is unconstitutional and undemocratic, say critics. UAPA, ostensibly a terrorism prevention law, has been routinely used by the Modi government to try to 

 silence government critics,  

including lawyers,

 activists, 

journalists,

 priests, 

poets, 

 academics,  

civil society members,  

and Kashmiri civilians." 

____https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/15/india-author-arundhati-roy-to-be-prosecuted-over-2010-kashmir-remarks

The complaint concerned Roy’s comment that the disputed territory of 

Kashmir was not  

an “integral” part of India" 

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'In 1820, the Sikh Empire, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. 

 In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. 

 The rule of his descendants, under the paramountcy (or tutelage of the British Crown, lasted until the Partition of India in 1947, when 

 the former princely state  

of the British Indian Empire

 became a disputed territory, 

 now administered by three countries:  

China, India, and Pakistan" 

"Nanga Parbat (Urdu: نانگا پربت) (Urdu: [nəŋɡa pərbət̪]; lit. 'naked mountain'), known locally as Diamer (Shina: دیآمر, lit. 'King of the Mountains'),  

is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth 

 and its summit is at 8,126 m (26,660 ft) above sea level."

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

The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, 

In the British census of India of 1941, Kashmir registered a Muslim majority population of 77%, a Hindu population of 20% 

 and a sparse population of Buddhists and Sikhs comprising the remaining 3%. 

 That same year, Prem Nath Bazaz, a Kashmiri Pandit journalist wrote: "The poverty of the Muslim masses is appalling. ... Most are landless laborers, working as serfs for absentee [Hindu] landlords ...  

Almost the whole brunt of official corruption is borne by the Muslim masses." 

 Under Hindu rule, Muslims faced hefty taxation and discrimination in the legal system, and were forced into labor without any wages.  Conditions in 

 the princely state 

 caused a significant migration of people from the Kashmir Valley to the Punjab of British India. 

For almost a century, until the census, a small Hindu elite had ruled over a vast and impoverished Muslim peasantry." 

India controls 101,338 km2 (39,127 sq mi) of the disputed territory, 

 Pakistan controls 85,846 km2 (33,145 sq mi),  

and the People's Republic of China controls the remaining 37,555 km2 (14,500 sq mi). 

"Kashmir region is home to rare species of animals, many of which are protected by sanctuaries and reserves. The Dachigam National Park in the Valley holds the last viable population of Kashmir stag (Hangul) and the largest population of black bear in Asia. 

In Gilgit-Baltistan the Deosai National Park is designated to protect the largest population of Himalayan brown bears in the western Himalayas. 

Snow leopards are found in high density In the Hemis National Park in Ladakh. 

The region is home to musk deer, markhor, leopard cat, jungle cat, red fox, jackal, Himalayan wolf, serow, Himalayan yellow-throated marten, long-tailed marmot, Indian porcupine, Himalayan mouse-hare, langur and Himalayan weasel.  

At least 711 bird species are recorded in the valley alone with 31 classified as globally threatened species." 

Nor Chaucer Her Desk Betray

  

Heigh labour, and ful greet apparaillynge,

Was at the service and the fyr-makynge,

That with his grene top the heven raughte,

And twenty fadme of brede the armes straughte;

This is to seyn, the bowes weren so brode.

Of stree first ther was leyd ful many a lode,

But how the fyr was maked upon highte,

Ne eek the names that the trees highte,

As, ook, firre, birch, aspe, alder, holm, popeler,

Wylugh, elm, plane, assh, box, chasteyn, lynde, laurer,

Mapul, thorn, bech, hasel, ew, whippeltree -

How they weren fild shal nat be toold for me,

Ne how the goddes ronnen up and doun

Disherited of hir habitacioun,

In whiche they woneden in reste and pees,

Nymphes, Fawnes, and Amadrides;

Ne how the beestes and the briddes alle

Fledden for fere, whan the wode was falle;

Ne how the ground agast was of the light,

That was nat wont to seen the sonne bright;

Ne how the fyr was couched first with stree,

And thanne with drye stokkes cloven a thre,

And thanne with grene wode and spicerye,

And thanne with clooth of gold and with perrye,

And gerlandes hangynge with ful many a flour, 

The mirre, th'encens, with al so greet odour;

Ne how Arcite lay among al this,

Ne what richesse aboute his body is,

Ne how that Emelye, as was the gyse,

Putte in the fyr of funeral servyse;

Ne how she swowned whan men made the fyr,

Ne what she spak, ne what was hir desir;

Ne what jeweles men in the fyre caste,

Whan that the fyr was greet and brente faste;

Ne how somme caste hir sheeld, and somme hir spere,

And of hire vestimentz whiche that they were,

And coppes fulle of wyn, and milk, and blood,

Into the fyr, that brente as it were wood,

Ne how the Grekes, with an huge route,

Thries riden al the fyr aboute,

Upon the left hand with a loud shoutynge,

And thries with hir speres claterynge,

And thries how the ladyes gonne crye,

And how that lad was homward Emelye;

Ne how Arcite is brent to asshen colde,

Ne how that lyche-wake was yholde

Al thilke nyght, ne how the Grekes pleye

The wake-pleyes ne kepe I nat to seye,

Who wrastleth best naked, with oille enoynt,

Ne who that baar hym best in no disjoynt;

I wol nat tellen eek, how that they goon

Hoom til Atthenes, whan the pley is doon;

But shortly to the point thanne wol I wende,

And maken of my longe tale an ende. 

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 Great labour and full great apparelling

Went to the service and the fire-making,

For to the skies that green pyre reached its top,

And twenty fathoms did the arms out-crop,

That is to say, the branches went so wide.

2060 Full many a load of straw they did provide.

But how the fire, was made to climb so high;

Or what names all the different trees went by.

As oak, fir, birch, asp, alder, poplar, holm,

Willow, plane, ash, box, chestnut, linden, elm,

2065 Laurel, thorn, maple, beech, yew, dogwood tree,

Or how they were felled, sha'n't be told by me.

Nor how the wood-gods scampered up and down,

Driven from homes that they had called their own,

Wherein they'd lived so long at ease, in peace,

2070 The nymphs, the fauns, the hamadryades;

Nor how the beasts, for fear, and the birds, all

Fled, when that ancient wood began to fall;

Nor how aghast the ground was in the light,

Not being used to seeing the sun so bright;

2075 Nor how the fire was started first with straw,

And then with dry wood, riven thrice by saw,

And then with green wood and with spicery,

And then with cloth of gold and jewellery,

And garlands hanging with full many a flower,

2080 And myrrh, and incense, sweet as rose in bower;

Nor how Arcita lies among all this,

Nor what vast wealth about his body is;

Nor how this Emily, as was their way,

Lighted the sacred funeral fire, that day,

2085 Nor how she swooned when men built up the fire,

Nor what she said, nor what was her desire;

No, nor what gems men on the fire then cast,

When the white flame went high and burned so fast;

Nor how one cast his shield, and one his spear,

2090 And some their vestments, on that burning bier,

With cups of wine, and cups of milk, and blood,

Into that flame, which burned as wild-fire would;

Nor how the Greeks, in one huge wailing rout,

Rode slowly three times all the fire about,

2095 Upon the left hand, with a loud shouting,

And three times more, with weapons clattering,

While thrice the women there raised up a cry;

Nor how was homeward led sad Emily;

Nor how Arcita burned to ashes cold;

2100 Nor aught of how the lichwake they did hold

All that same night, nor how the Greeks did play

The funeral games I care not to say

Who, naked, wrestled best, with oil anointed,

Nor who best bore himself in deeds appointed.

2105 I will not even tell how they were gone

Home, into Athens, when the play was done;

But briefly to the point, now, will I wend

And make of this, my lengthy tale, an end.

 

http://www.librarius.com/canttran/knighttrfs.htm

 

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Great labour and full great apparelling

Went to the service and the fire-making,

For to the skies that green pyre reached its top,

And twenty fathoms did the arms out-crop,

That is to say, the branches went so wide. 

Full many a load of straw they did provide.

But how the fire, was made to climb so high;

Or what names all the different trees went by.

As oak, fir, birch, asp, alder, poplar, holm,

Willow, plane, ash, box, chestnut, linden, elm,Laurel, thorn, maple, beech, yew, dogwood tree,

Or how they were felled, sha'n't be told by me.

Nor how the wood-gods scampered up and down,

Driven from homes that they had called their own,

Wherein they'd lived so long at ease, in peace, 

The nymphs, the fauns, the hamadryades;

Nor how the beasts, for fear, and the birds, all

Fled, when that ancient wood began to fall;

Nor how aghast the ground was in the light,

Not being used to seeing the sun so bright;

Nor how the fire was started first with straw,

And then with dry wood, riven thrice by saw,

And then with green wood and with spicery,

And then with cloth of gold and jewellery,

And garlands hanging with full many a flower,

And myrrh, and incense, sweet as rose in bower;

Nor how Arcita lies among all this,

Nor what vast wealth about his body is;

Nor how this Emily, as was their way,

Lighted the sacred funeral fire, that day,

Nor how she swooned when men built up the fire,

Nor what she said, nor what was her desire;

No, nor what gems men on the fire then cast,

When the white flame went high and burned so fast;

Nor how one cast his shield, and one his spear,

And some their vestments, on that burning bier,

With cups of wine, and cups of milk, and blood,

Into that flame, which burned as wild-fire would;

Nor how the Greeks, in one huge wailing rout,

Rode slowly three times all the fire about,

Upon the left hand, with a loud shouting,

And three times more, with weapons clattering,

While thrice the women there raised up a cry;

Nor how was homeward led sad Emily;

Nor how Arcita burned to ashes cold; 

Nor aught of how the lichwake they did hold

All that same night, nor how the Greeks did play

The funeral games I care not to say

Who, naked, wrestled best, with oil anointed,

Nor who best bore himself in deeds appointed.

I will not even tell how they were gone

Home, into Athens, when the play was done;

But briefly to the point, now, will I wend

And make of this, my lengthy tale, an end.

 

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"Chaucer was born in London most likely in the early 1340s (by some accounts, including his monument, he was born in 1343), though the precise date and location remain unknown. The Chaucer family offers an extraordinary example of upward mobility. 

 His great-grandfather was a tavern keeper, his grandfather worked as a purveyor of wines, and his father John Chaucer rose to become an important wine merchant with a royal appointment.  

Several previous generations of Geoffrey Chaucer's family had been vintners and merchants in Ipswich. His family name is derived from the French chaucier, once thought to mean 'shoemaker', but now known to mean a maker of hose or leggings.

 A possible indication that his career as a writer was appreciated came when Edward III granted Chaucer "a gallon of wine daily for the rest of his life" for some unspecified task.  

This was an unusual grant, but given on a day of celebration, St George's Day, 1374, when artistic endeavours were traditionally rewarded, it is assumed to have been for another early poetic work. 

 It is not known which, if any, of Chaucer's extant works prompted the reward, but the suggestion of him as poet to a king places him as a precursor to later poets laureate. Chaucer continued to collect the liquid stipend until Richard II came to power, after which it was converted to a monetary grant on 18 April 1378. 

In 1378, Richard II sent Chaucer as an envoy (secret dispatch) to the Visconti and to Sir John Hawkwood, English condottiere (mercenary leader) in Milan. It has been speculated that it was Hawkwood on whom Chaucer based his character the Knight in the Canterbury Tales, for a description matches that of a 14th-century condottiere" 

"Chaucer is also recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as the first author to use many common English words in his writings. 

 These words were probably frequently used in the language at the time but Chaucer, with his ear for common speech, is the earliest extant manuscript source. 

 Acceptable, alkali, altercation, amble, angrily, annex, annoyance, approaching, arbitration, armless, army, arrogant, arsenic, arc, artillery and aspect are just some of almost two thousand English words first attested in Chaucer.  "

"Chaucer is sometimes considered the source of the English vernacular tradition. His achievement for the language can be seen as part of a general historical trend towards the creation of a vernacular literature, after the example of Dante, in many parts of Europe" 

 

"The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is believed to be in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules (1382), a dream vision portraying a parliament for birds to choose their mates. 

Honouring the first anniversary of the engagement of fifteen-year-old King Richard II of England to fifteen-year-old Anne of Bohemia: 

For this was on seynt Volantynys day

Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make

Of euery kynde that men thinke may

And that so heuge a noyse gan they make

That erthe & eyr & tre & euery lake

So ful was that onethe was there space

For me to stonde, so ful was al the place

( This reminds me of Fort Stevens park, Oregon Coast. We camped there a few days. The bird sounds were so varied and full in the woods there in the quiet if the morning.) 

Death Salesmen US bombs

  

"after another volley of Israeli airstrikes against the city, Mohammad Jaber al-Absi and his brother Abed would end up burying 15 members of their family, including their father and five children." 

 Samour described seeing charred bodies in the massacre, torn-apart children, and the wounded crying for help in vain.  

“I saw people trying to pull the bodies of their loved ones from the fire while the smoke filled the air and made it difficult for us to breathe,” she told The Intercept in an interview. 

" El White House, which had repeatedly cautioned Israel against invading Rafah without a “plan to protect civilians,”  

nevertheless signed off on a new $1 billion arms sale to Israel on May 14, 

 a little over a week into the offensive. 

 The attack came in for worldwide condemnation, and the International Court of Justice issued new provisional measures  

ordering Israel to immediately end military operations in Rafah" 

 

May 26, Israeli airstrikes slammed into the tent camp in Tal al-Sultan.  

The bombs used in the Israeli attack were U.S.-made, 

 according to investigations by multiple news outlets.

“I screamed as I never did before,” Samour told The Intercept. “The first thing I felt was the shock of the explosion, as if the ground was shaking beneath us.  

I rushed to my children and hugged them close, fearing that the missile would fall on our heads. I found safety in dying together. It was raining shrapnel.” 

Samour heard the screams of children and women around her as tents were set ablaze.  

“The flames were surrounding us, it was beyond my worst nightmares,” she said, describing her desperate attempts to protect her children.  

“I was devastated that  

I could not bring 

 my kids back inside my belly.” 

     "Layla Samour and four of her children in Khan Younis after surviving the “tent massacre” in Rafah, on June 2, 2024. Photo: Shrouq Aila for The Intercept" 

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/14/rafah-tent-massacre-israel-gaza/ 

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 explosive or non she asked hipmenu

in hand well we prefer non

but since there's that three century wail in store

we'd take that window booth next to them

defense contractors overlooking

"swampy vegetable aroma patterns"

(halogen pterodactyls, spinach drooling

off beaks), the death salesmen

                           undo their belts

to pad that tax deductible paunch

old buddy senator stood ''em up

time to leak the polaroids

but no, frond of fate

a lit cuban cigar of karma ignites their

duffel sack of scalps autographed

blown to fiber optic dust

smithereens, they had a fine fang

for family bbq

cuz bad money is one bitch of a sauce to kick 

(1993) FLB 

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it's flag day 

Your tribe is flaunting football and golf

Funny the way to sell cola and pig weenies on enriched buns 

Is to wrap it in myopia 

I can't see past the pilgrims 

Eating dogs and digging up graves to make soup in plymouth 

Faced with winter they didn't have any flag to wrap up in 

Shit out of luck 

Who stepped up 

No need to see past 

Them them is US 

Past is prologue unfurling wind 

A slack flag in front of SCOTUS mansion 

Crow will blow it frenzied 

Up to Montana Wyoming Colorado for a salmon hunt 

They're too old for hookers 

Who knows maybe not 

What a view the robes digest from a self inclining my pillow gut massage 

The mountains mining auto signed 

Their glaciers melt uranium straight past spawning christian academies 

God bless ole gory sic glory 

Salute the potluck chew the fat 

Harlan Just one of many 

Dinner Party Donner Party Oligarch medicine show