I am partial to those who offer aid and sanctuary and take heart that there are intelligent, kind and loving people doing what they can to reduce suffering in the world. Can we "save" anyone or anything? My answer is no, because ultimately everything must pass (you and me and the stars and the trees...) but we can act with kindness and compassion along the way, and that for me will have to do. Read below the fold...
what's off the table, mommy
what has fallen to the floor?
what never even made it
what proves less is more?
when you carve your blessed beast
when your knife is painted red
will you smile for the cameras
with a tear to shed
just one tear to shed
(chorus)
cascading showers
rivulets of rain
rising waters in america
drowning once again
cascading showers
dropping from the clouds
cascading showers
no one can hear the screams
no one can hear the screams
among the silent crowds Read below the fold...
it came to pass, a law required
no sky without a god would do
no turning of the ancient world
no right to clouds aloft in blue
we must, they cried with fingers wagging
take arms against elliptic turns
for winter's onslaught comes on nigh
we must take hold or freedom spurn! Read below the fold...
When discussing the relative merits of whether or not to crush a suspect under the heel of one's jackboot, it is important to avoid intemperate or meandering rhetoric so as to keep the thrusts of one's arguments from being attenuated by "wild boot chases." I suggest to all who are interested in this subject that we lace up our Kickers and trifercate(sic) the discussion as follows, in three distinct threads: Read below the fold...
‘Twas pillaged by the viper Rove
Didst guile most nimbly in the race:
All flimsy were the sordid votes
And plutocrats give thanks
“Beware Iraqerwock, my dunce
The laws you’ll fight, the brawls you'll hatch!
Beware the glum-glum Kurds and shun
The gloomious Democrats!” Read below the fold...
Yeah, yeah, I know: the Slog For the Presidency is about issues and not about which poli one would like to play tetherball with during recess. (Slightly off-topic: Tim Russert is a greasy stool.)
