Siren

I became a criminal when I fell in love.
Before that I was a waitress.

I didn't want to go to Chicago with you.
I wanted to marry you, I wanted
Your wife to suffer.

I wanted her life to be like a play
In which all the parts are sad parts.

Does a good person
Think this way? I deserve

Credit for my courage--

I sat in the dark on your front porch.
Everything was clear to me:
If your wife wouldn't let you go
That proved she didn't love you.
If she loved you
Wouldn't she want you to be happy?

I think now
If I felt less I would be
A better person. I was
A good waitress.
I could carry eight drinks.

I used to tell you my dreams.
Last night I saw a woman sitting in a dark bus--
In the dream, she's weeping, the bus she's on
Is moving away. With one hand
She's waving; the other strokes
An egg carton full of babies.

The dream doesn't rescue the maiden
Louise Gluck, who is the new American Lauerate.

collections of prisoners inventions

mefi

WTO allows generic drugs
well its good to know that they truly care about aids in africa.

they have restored my faith in capitialism, and pharmeticual companies.

god bless them.

First Person peice by an expert witness, who comes across as a mercenary whore.

making light

The Rev. Dr Sam Kobia, a kenyan moderate, has been called to head the World Council of Churches.
B/w this and the Anglican issues with England and Nigeria point strongly to a new african christianty, and i would put my money on a black pope in the next 20 years.

maybe even next.


all africa story on the bishop

Men are Savages, together they destroy.
12 percent of women were raped or attempted rape at the Air Force Academy in Coloardo Springs.

from the story:

The women said victims of rape who came forward were routinely punished for minor infractions while their attackers escaped judgment, prompting most victims to remain silent.

This is not date rape, this is not seduction got wrong, which is bad enough.
This is phyiscal overpowering to gain what one wishes.

which is the pt of a soilder, isnt it ?


ampersand

London Blackout for a few hours
start of a trend, mayor ken livingstone is livid, we should be scared, we dont even need terrorists, we can kill and inconveince ourselves.

2 and one half yr girl excluded from nursery

best qoute:
Staff at Hopscotch nursery, in Wolverhampton, told Ms Johns her daughter was too clever to be cared for.

arnie has said he is pro choice but not for partial birth abortions, pro domestic partnership but not marriage.

both sides against the middle

via left right

speaking of T and R recent reports in Peru have doubled the death counts of Shining Path from ca 35 k to 69.

Will this stop the far lefts romanticazation of violent revolt ? Or is this a "nessecary evil"

I remember Zach de le Rocha of Rage Against the Machine treating the shining path as a good thing, as a liberation movement of the natives.

They were drug running genocidal maoists, but then every left house of a certain generation had a little red book and even warhol didnt treat him any different then marylin...

Liberia will not have a war crimes tribunal.

Truth and Reconcillation comittees seem to be working in Chile, Peru, Gautemala and have worked in South Africa, is it because the government is provisonal ? Is it a case of Brecht's maxim "first bread, then ethics" ?

all africa

A poster at Ron Silliman commented on a lecture she delivered on American 19th Century Women Poets who Weren't Emily Dickinson, which i think was the title of the lecture.

She pointed and then linked to a woman called Helen Hunt Jackson, who wrote
this which moved me deeply and has as much a fear of death as any of emilys work.

Silliman pointed out it wasnt skill or content that made e. unique but diction...(this is me), so that america has had two traditions, the barabaic yawp and epic long breaths of whitman and the small contained machines of e, though that is a dichotomy and there are exceptions, i think it might be crude enough to be useful.

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christian sci. monitor provides context on the neocons

i wonder if the word con is degroatory ?

large pretty 20th century design site

nevada may have a recall as well

reminding the world that in democracies recalls exist every 4 yrs, not that it matters 'cause w/o money ya'll fucked.

reading and writing

the republicans are outsourcing fundraising activity to call centers in india.

the wheels of western capitalism run on colinalism, like it always has.

also note the anti immigrant conseratives getting money via india, and compare to the buddhist nuns and clinton, is this anything different ?

romensko

Not only is the combat expanding, the number of soilders dead after the conflict is more then the number of soliders during the conflict, which suggests that what was called the ending really was a propghanda move. We will soon be into vietnam, although there is more to be lost in the mideast. link here

also in the journal today bush used the term domino effect of deomocracy, which was the motavation and wording they used for the colonial wars in se asia and s america.

mefi

9 reasons why Edwards will drop out

the biggest one is that the only one who really is in the running is dean, which i will right about soon.

colby cosh

Collection of Ads for station wagons from the mid 50s.

the sight is called ephemera now, and has a variety of this kind of venacular adverstisments.

mefi