The Wake

It is dangerous to leave written that which is badly written. A chance word, upon paper, may destroy the world. Watch carefully and erase, while the power is still yours, I say to myself, for all that is put down, once it escapes, may rot its way into a thousand minds, the corn become a black smut, and all libraries, of necessity, be burned to the ground as a consequence.
- William Carlos Williams, Paterson: Book III

                      And
do not contend to know the answers, you! who sits there suffocating
on your seat cushion. How can you possibly know?
		Shut
	up
and be still. That film over your eyes is not a glaze as some say. That is just the moisture from your tear ducts moistening your eyes
as they pierce
the light
	 from behind the prisms
of your television set.
This is the new mushroom cloud of love
 & hope.

Shut up! and listen to me.

		Do 		Not		Fear
	  	  G E N E R A L I Z A T I O N S
	          	acting out of necessity

Thank you for the roundup on that story out of Ohio. With the elections only months away, Diebold has its hands full. There’s much more to cover, unfortunately, we have to act within the constraints of cable news. The world is turning and news is churning. This just in,

              Twenty-Four hours is never enough
              to explain a day
              when there’s shopping to do
              in a Banana Republic

Vice President Dick Cheney: If you look back at our strategies that we used in the 20th century, specifically, say vis-a-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we had a policy of containment, alliances, NATO in particular very successful at containing the Soviet Union, a policy of deterrence we could hold at risk, those things that they valued with our ballistic missiles and we were able to forestall a conflict throughout that whole period of time; enormously successful policy.

Such matters
         are out
of my control.  Say for instance
the missiles the US sold to Saudi Arabia
during the Soviet conflict in Afghanistan, 1979.  Or US support of the Mujahideen
								     resistance.

		They have you fear
		the ideas of others
		over their own
		intentions.

With his term up, President George W. Bush takes some time to reflect on his place in history. Some say the polls offer insights. Approval ratings at a record-low 19%, “Well I look at a lot of presidents. Abraham Lincoln, for example. I suspect Abraham Lincoln’s approval rating wouldn’t have been very good during the Civil War. Six hundred thousand people died. And yet, Abraham Lincoln never lost sight of the moral truth that all men are created equal under God.”

Shut
	up
and be still.

After hearing the news of the United States strike in Afghanistan, young Peter gathered in front of his computer screen looking to understand what the word means, Mujahideen. According the dictionary it means Fighters (esp. guerillas) who seek to propagate or defend Islam; an organization or group of such fighters.

Shut
	up.  Just shut up and let
me talk.  The circumstances are different.  That was
then, 				this is now.  You can
not equate the United States foreign policy to Dr. Seuss and his character the Cat in the Hat.

Why shouldn't I?
Here is an autonomous cat
                                                                                                      entering the territory of a
                                                                       family.
He creates a dire mess,
says he'll fix it and then proceeds to
                            cover the house in stains
made of stains made of

Shut up! and stay
that way.  They
hate us.  They hate
freedom.  Can't you see
that?  Forget about the United States
and their past
allegiance to the very same Mujahideen that the United States trained
					    with the CIA.
That was the Cold War,
			                       against the Soviets.

These people are blood-thirsty terrorists who want to kill us.

		Blood begets
		blood in accordance
		with the almighty dollar;
		blood for iron and steel
		blood for profit
		pumping through
		Red State
		Blue