IS TODAY WEDNESDAY
OR WHAT
im in my prewoodshed mode now
who knows who cares what day it is
MONDAY
fear of a black planet
not quite sure what to make of this one
so im just gon report it and leave it be
studies were made of the amygdala
the brains danger alarm system
by showing black and white subjects
pictures of black and white folk and both
responded to black faces with more
brain danger warnings
ima leave that one alone
im tired and i dont feel like looking
at the implications of that tonight
maybe tomorrow
cant we all get along
musa hilal, leader of the janjaweed
and perpetrator of darfurian warcrimes
has recently traveled to remaining black
villages urging them to intermarry w/arab
tribes as way to solve the killing there
which of course will only breed more arabs
and continue the ethnic cleansing by means
less alarming to the international community
but we wont go there
he has offered any who do so
$200,000 sudanese pounds (about $80)
'i hope this will encourage others to do the same' he told them
'we are all muslims and nothing should separate us'
to which the crowd replied w/a dutiful
god is great
a strong man lies dying
there is nothing quite like a sincere
hunger strike waged by a political prisoner
it is an act of ultimate courage
and despair
and i for one would prefer not to see this
one played out to its approaching end
is there nothing we can do for
yvon neptune
terrorism apparently
is in the eye of the beholder
well bush has to decide what to do with
cuban terrorist luis posado
who has finally landed in the united states
seeking sanctuary
running from the bombing of a cuban airliner
in the 70s that killed 73 folk
and a variety of equally mortal terror ops
over the years
venezuela has asked that he be extradited
for prosecution on the airliner
so now the bush admin has a quandry
will he be returned to venezuela and chavez
whom they hate
will he be jailed as a terrorist and inflame
floridas voting cubans
or will he be given asylum and set the united states
up for preemptive strikes by rumsfield and crew
for harboring terrorists under the bush doctrine
stay tuned
this gon be interesting
i think we all know how this is
going to play out
the bush admin has never evidenced
any problems living w/hypocrisy
the only real question is how
are they going to try to spin it
escape from jerusalem
israels wall sounds like something
out of some bad scifi movie
like b class facism
i dont know what the answer is
but this is not it
SUNDAY
the hoodoo way journal
been looking at literary journals
trying to find a format for this hoodoo journal
i been telling folk ima do
i been telling everybody ima do this so now
i got to do it or my balls are on the line
(i probably shouldnt have said that, i take it back)
so anyway found this page with all these journals on it
the newpages guide to online literary magazines
i will post some links to some i find particularly interesting over
the next couple of days im researching stylesheets
first one being calabash
calabash: a journal of caribbean arts and letters
not only is it a cool journal but so far i like their design best i think
but i plan to go thru the whole list before i decide on final layout
enjoying it actually
but thats the curse of research
you hit those patches where you want to slow down and appreciate
but you got to be focused and keep crunching thru cause
you got lots to do and research will bog you down if you let it
SATURDAY
the first yard of spring
it was beautiful
a shimmering iridescent carpet of clover
a sunlit blue
then some little purple jobbies came in
and this weekend there were all these
yellow flowers there
and it was beautiful
also our yard slopes and pools when it rains
so there was a recent heavy rain and a toppled tree
looked out one morning and birds were on
the edge of the lake and a squirrel on
the limb and it looked like wetlands
out there
bonnie i said, we got wildlife
she was not impressed
asking if i needed some gas for the lawnmower
when was i gon drag the tree to the curb
and everyweek the yard get a little wilder
and since nobody else had cut theirs i didnt cut mine
yard dreading i told her, it natural ting
drop the accent she said, how many times
do i got to tell you you dont sound like no west indian
well this morning im looking out the kitchen window
and all these yellow flowers had appeared all over
wow i said, look at all the yellow
she looked
dandelions she spit and i could tell
dandelions was not a good thing
i said its so pretty, it looks like a field of clover
she said it is a field of clover
so today im hearing the growl of mowers
from neighbors who have turned on me
and that wild and wooly first lawn of spring
so i pulled out the lawnmower and
after taking a couple of pictures to
remember it by i commence to cutting
but i got two bottle trees out there
and i didnt cut close around the bottletrees
so there is still a patch of clover or two
out there
so far she hasnt noticed
or if she has noticed she has not said anything
which is even better
but i think she plans to plant flowers around my bottle trees
thats what she said
me i dont see the reason when god already done that
this what ima do
next season ima tell her i want to start a garden and
she will be pleased with my interest
and i will mark me a little area out there
preferably around my bottle trees
put a little brick border around it maybe
and come next summer ima just let it be
what it is, a field of clover
that first wild lawn of spring
FRIDAY
my lai redux and the chain of command
trip how they found that soldier innocent who
coldbloodedly shot not one wounded iraqi prisoner
but three
the bush administration does not penalize
its soldiers for warcrimes even when the evidence
is clearcut
but then this administration doesnt hold its
authorities accountable for warcrimes either
such behavior of course encourages warcrimes
only way that guy would have been convicted
is if there was some general involved whose
ass needed to be covered
then they would have sent that boy
to leavenworth
if necessary they would have
executed that sucker
their premise is why prosecute a general
(or secretary of defense)
when an elisted man will do
spics in the woodpile
wow, its been almost a week since ive posted
ive entered that end of semester crashdown
would like to sleep for about a week
but i had to comment on the runaway bride
and her decision to blame a hispanic guy
i guess this means they have officially arrived
as new most favored minority
forget the polls and the census and all that
what really counts is when they become the
beneficiary of disturbed white women looking
looking for a beast to blame
being replaced as beast of the week
in the popular imagination is another benefit of being
post most favored minority
the other is leaving that tired old mode
of struggle behind and being forced
to move into global shadow play
i say we bid for power
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