MOONSTONES
thanks, Christian Morgenstern
I conceive the moon to be a circular disk
and climb a stairway to it through my telescope cylinder.
Four hundred and three thousand km average apogee distance in mid-air
above our human hive level, floating there,
I see the sapphire earth, the celestial fleets in the straights of Magellan,
and there perceive the man in the moon, first person singular.
MORE ORDERS
More orders come down like a hammer, needlessly on high!
I’m to be impaled by their fanatic Utopian formula;
and, left writhing in pain and misery bound to a page,
where a part of their final solution they are to bind
multi-dimensional me squeezed into this flatland book.
The two backs come together somewhere behind,
but, out front you could call my life an open book.
So, burdened by cardboard wings, so to speak,
I wander along pages all a flutter;
or, pausing perhaps to peruse at pleasure, while lying at rest
thumbing through the paper plumage that are his wings....
TO BE: FREE
I build a mobile for him, I put pretty pictures on his walls,
with sayings attached from Horace and Shakespeare*:
I want to share the best of our cultural heritage with him,
to help facilitate his development as he begins to grow.
He’ll recognize the sound of my voice.
Wonderful is the beautiful universe:
that blossoms anthropically around him.
The fertile world grew green for eight gestating months,
and Fall’s golden harvest moon hangs huge and ripe.
It has no thistles, nor thorns to prick him,
like a spindle bearing parable with wisdom from our past,
the universe a peaceful jocular dream,
where he waits, warm and secure, floating in suspended animation:
to be, whatever he conceives....
And, the universe emerges through the rich and varied experiences
we provide, and, he smiles in his dreams; and, when at last, in eager anticipation
of how the world will be, he trades the confining security of to be;
and, he integrates his subjective reality with the objective moral universe:
as a happy, free, transcendent being.
*”Dare to know.” & “And these few precepts in thy memory see thou character.
Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportion’ed thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; but, do not dull thy palm with entertainment
of each new hatch’d. unfledg’d comrade. Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
bear’t that the opposed may beware thee. Give every man they ear, but few they voice:
take each man’s censure, but reserve they judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy
but not express’d in fancy; rich not gaudy: for apparel oft proclaims the man; and they in
of the best rank and station are most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower
or lender be:
for loan oft loses both itself and friend; and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all, - to thine own self be true’ and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!”
These were the two quotes that adorned my sons’ nursery walls,
HOLD ME
Hold me in your invisible hands,
and don’t ever let go of me.
Carry me from where the dark, dull, domains dominate;
and from where misery and ignorance solidify to create a race
of malevolent people gratuitously motivated to embrace absurdities,
‘till their habituated to wrong and reason is subordinate to hate;
and, from where factional fanatics, arrogant in their vices, drive democracy
into a corrupt, morally degenerate, avaricious state.
And, carry me over the brief bridge of bright morning
between random instances, of delightfully varied spontaneity
and inhabited with pleasant eccentric individuals
who were hardened by adversity to a gentle compassionate strength;
and, still capable of love, they weren’t reducible to a mere formula of words,
nor mislead by their complicitous contemporaries the foul extremists
who duplicitously engage the unsuspecting herd in rank civilian ignominy
that stupidly betrays society based on honest individual interests.
MORNING AWAKES
The noise of the city of roses stirring awake,
the foul exhalations of last night’s revelry
mix with shriveled blossoms shed by palsied trees,
in the musk by the curbs, where buses leave grumbling
squalls of spent refuse and filth,
whose ague rudely shakes passengers awake
uncomfortably seated on minute devouring wheels,
and rolls its excessively, wide, awake, white eyes
that departs blood shot red from noisy bars,
where workers have hurried on their way discretely smoking
small short pipes away from the noses of the police on the beat,
moisture oozes leaky roofs, leprous walls, and slippery asphalt streets,
worn out and lunar crated, whose coursing gutters overflow
the sewers that pour from their ‘o’ gaping mouths
bearded by foliage, by bridges burrowing in mists
that reflect remorse in the dark river mirror –
that’s the road my route redundantly transverses:
with you and
A SAD FATE
Moon, I pity your sad fate.
A scarred beauty who shines reflected glory.
You vary from one night to the next, traveling down your weary beaten path;
and, you play no part in deciding who, what, when, where, how, and why you go.
The time spent is not lost in thought, engaging in Reason,
why you’ve never had one idea that you could call your own.
And, while gazing at your shallow beauty, I should judge
that you know nothing of Love; and,
in spite of hours spent gently guiding flocks of stars,
whiling away tired Eons, you’ve probably never experienced
any other pulse quickening Passion.
What journey have you traveled since late last night?
When I spent the rest of the night, making of it what I would,
retiring to my library and sitting in my easy chair - time machine,
where I invoked a voyage exploring the wonderful and beautiful universe.
And then, finally, I landed laying in my soul mates arms,
while you inhabit oblivion.
JOHN, A STAR
Its strange how strong and resolute
your presence makes me
ancient star,
pale burning beauty, remote and
separate, fading in dawn’s
blind bright!
UNLIKE OTHERS
I’ve never done anything
to be forgiven for – if its something
shameful, or that doesn’t feel right:
don’t do it! Your phony condemnations
are woven out of the same fabric as many of your lives
a lie!
I’ve taken your silence and constructed a cenotaph,
and there it sits in the crowded cluttered storeroom of my heart,
where it listens to your loud alarms and tumultuous clamor
significant of nothing –
if not stupid idiocy.
A lion rides the lonely waves
of desolate
a lion of pain
who deserted his pride
and watches as it departs
a distant receding squall
depositing my tears in the sea.
THE ART
The rumbling train barreling down the track
inspires me to a work of art
created for oppression, corruption, and destruction –
nothing else. They come with invasive equipment and perverted technology
to compensate for their lack of ability
to accomplish it; but, I recall how it began,
now the work no longer “pretends”; it doesn’t remember any work
but corruption and destruction on the runaway express
charging blindly, to its inexorable tyrannical end!
ON PURUSING THE PAPERS
I often meet people, the tormented grotesques living afraid, and their counterparts
the malevolent tormentors who arrogantly strut,
their vices paraded as virtues behaving hypocritically and hatefully absurd.
Here is some free advice: read everything as a self-serving lie, propaganda
for a distant land that’s systemically corrupt.
Suppose in Spring, the World conquerors should start another war for profit
rationalized by genocide that makes the world crawl
pick up a leaf from last years Fall, -
and, you’ll discern, in its eloquence, how everything will turn out, for all.
No doubt, it’s the usual empty vanity inspired reprehensible repression
applying our time’s oppression, so they don’t feel left out in the new-old situations.
Yet, de facto, these are merely matters of superficial contemporary fashion:
Unnoticed, and more significant, the profound Democratic principles
have expired!
INDUCED SUICIDES
Oh daughter of Rebekha! in your hand
is held my beating heart, for your kind, doe brown eyes
I could gladly sell all
Bring, pipe bearer, all that remains of the precious herb!
In the
cast from the
and in the bowers of the
They’ve flooded the city with blood and false toil,
these soft voiced and loud deceitful whores, even their children are prostituted,
whose sad fates we sigh;
as right wing special interests robbers fall on foreign spoil,
they’ve sadistically tried to torment me, and steal the peace that lives in my heart.
Invested is my Love, while in a degenerate state of penury, I’d be, if I lived a lie.
What can I give her? Her radiant beauty shines from within
and, it’s not time’s fool either, nor needs it jewels and artificial arts.
We live impoverished lives in stupid times devoid of balladeers, whose brave tales
used to entertain and relate,
what the invasive spying of fools vainly tries to seek;
no wisdom is theirs, and their false understanding can never unlock life’s gate,
and without the proper question keys, no wisdom shall reach fruition, or even hope to be.
But, Joseph’s story our tomes will never speak;
and our minstrels know that a Khan caused Hafiz and Rumi to speak,
revealing pure Love, and parting curtains of false modesty.
When slandered and severely persecuted it was well,
God forgive them, they know not what they do! Your Love was sweet;
among their sewers of iniquity, a treasure that made life complete, unlooked for it fell,
from dark days sick with a black plague, where scattered grotesque corpses lay.
But, fair love, let good counsel direct through today’s mine field your feet;
even though discounted and disguarded by fatuous fools and foolish impetuous youth,
it’s as precious as life itself,
the Honor, Integrity, and the sagacity of one grown wise- and gray!
The poem is written, from well worn words and life goes on as always, as if it had just
begun;
come old pen and dear friend, that is not what I meant to say at all – try again!
And, the quiet Heavens listens above, listens and patiently waits for it to begin,
again; while, the music of the spheres sounds, we are after all made from star dust.
WHILE WATCHING T.V.
The corpse rose, from a shower of American bombs,
it said, “I’m a civilian!” It only served
to increase the youngster in a uniform’s fear.
For how can a person protect himself from
the great legions of unintimidated dead!
And, I think, while watching TV there is no quarrel between,
their civilians and our soldiers,
and,
there is a kind of gloom that covers all these people.
The two parallel universes, and two eternities, and two one Gods,
oh, I had studied both. The soldiers training sessions
that taught each dubious civilian is a potential enemy,
don’t leave lines of logistics exposed, secure terrain:
ravage the land. And, from the more eager fanatics, the friends of faction
civilians are tortured and atrocities occur – just like at home
Then, the scene on national TV switches
showing soldiers racing into someone’s house;
and, death dives into my eye
and gently diffuses and I blink,
as the spasmodic body that was once graceful and beautiful,
splattered blood across the screen: an ugly American tragedy -
the reception was excellent though, and
it all comes clear to me.
I hope some day, when I’m busy with life,
to be suddenly stopped with the sight on TV;
a soldier is crouching behind the cover of a car,
no hesitation and the entire patrol is gunned down,
for all is clean and fair,
when people are trying to protect their homes.
And, suddenly, I enter the screen
the scene is being repeated; but,
the soldiers begin to distribute bread and meat, books and wine;
and the civilians, laughing and smiling give flowers in return,
music is heard as people begin to dance.
People eat and smoke and drink, there is a party!
One nagging isolated question remains –
if everyone benefits by Peace, do you fellow viewers, even now,
after years of carnage, and $20 billion for just three more months
spent and plundered, without a dateline for withdrawing,
understand, given that the government’s story is a lie,
what started the war, and what it was all about?
All of the ideas presented in the discourses, essays, and studies are the express opinions of its author.
RUMOR MILL
STUDIES OF DEMOCRACY
VI.
The last few issues of this study on Democracy have been directed to enumerating the dangers that we’ve been exposed in a state where faction predominates the political process and subordinates the rights and interests of the rest of the nation, from the abuse of power extending from too great a concentration of wealth, so that it currently functions as an autonomous state. I’ll now delineate different dangers that are more alarming than those previously discussed – they extend from dissensions between interests within the nation and from domestic faction grown disproportionately large and the perturbations and convulsions generated from the state thrown into disequilibrium. These have been preliminarily introduced in some limited circumstances for all conceptual delineations are arbitrary, while reality isn’t so orderly and overlaps and blurs our lines of distinction.
An individual must be far gone in the enthrallment of factional corruption, or incredibly ignorant who can not perceive that if the USA doesn’t continue to conceive of itself and function as a nation of united harmonious interests that extends directly from the Civil Rights of the individual and the basic building block of society the family unit on through its larger social units, the subordinating of rights and interests that we’ve recently experienced has only resulted in our nation becoming overwhelmed with vice and corruption never experienced before. To presume a lack of motives for such a disruptive state as an argument against the factional abuse of power is to naively ignore that mankind is ambitious, vicious, vindictive, and avaricious; and it was the failures of human beings, which served to necessitate the forming of nations in the first place; and, also, it functioned as a catalyst, even though human rights were supposedly protected by a legitimate government, for the USA to rebel against its subordinated state of existence – “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them
are Life,
The causes for factional transgressions are innumerable. There are those which are general and constantly attack the aggregate body of society. The paramount among these is the jealous lust of power, or the desire to be first among equals, and paranoid for safety because of their resulting corrupt transgressions and relatively favored position, they’ve imposed actions which weaken the nation. There are many others which are more circumscribed through an equal realization of benefits obtained for the participants through the implementation of game theory, within their domain as is the case with the industrial-military. Such are the convenient competitive dynamics of oligopoly supplied markets and their impaired beneficial effects for the public and ‘its’ protecting agent governments. And, there are others, not less numerous nor negative in effect, which take their origins entirely from private passions; in the human foibles, prejudices, attachments, interests, aspirations, and apprehensions of the leading participants in the communities of which they are members. People of this class, whether special interest advisers to governors and presidents, or supposedly disinterested concerned citizens of the public have deceptively been manipulated and displaced by faction to an unprecedented degree with the unsupervised and unrestrained assistance of invasive espionage technologies, and now cynically engage in systemic abuse of the confidence they’ve come to possess; and, assuming the false façade of a public motivated pretext have injudiciously not scrupled to sacrifice the national interests for base personal benefit or misguided personal gratification provided with carte blanche acquiescence for any and all actions utilizing an intemperate rationalization, “Whatever it takes”, which is guaranteed to generate disastrous degenerative effects and serious damaging consequences.
Please
follow with me for a few historical footsteps, and, a large horizon will open
up before you and an insightful vista will reward your efforts with the
additional insights of a linear perspective.
Alexander burned a city for the amusement of a whore. Caesar stimulated by an avaricious desire for
power persecuted political opponents, at great expense and bloodshed, while
transferring the wealth of Rome to his partisan supporters in an attempt to
solidify his personal power that destroyed the Roman Republic’s foundation of
Liberty and reduced it to the degenerative Roman Empire whose foundation of
wealth formed the basis of its power before its eventual collapse. Nicolas Boileau
describes a similar corrupt process occurring during the advanced monarchy
phase of the nation-state. And, Goethe,
Voltaire, Chateaubriand, and de la Bruyere provide
multiple examples on the continent of Europe that Hume and MacCulay
expose in the growth and development of England, where extensive examples are
given of personal considerations taking precedence over the good of the nation
in national events either domestic or foreign, according to facts and
circumstances that had the culminating consequence of transforming the
nation-state from monarchies to popular Democracies, discontinuously in the
former and continuously in the latter instance.
Those who are either ignorant or superficially acquainted with the
historical record these affairs are derived from, should study and analyze the
variables effecting these events; and, those already familiar with human nature
both from scholarship and active participation in world affairs will readily
comprehend the necessity to make ameliorating measures to redress past wrongs
and prevent future injury from that direction.
Perhaps, however, a more concrete example to substantiate and document
the contemporary relevance of the general principle is in order and appropriate
to facilitate its application to current circumstances. If Bush wasn’t fraudulently elected there
wouldn’t have been the scandalous events of September 11th and the
But,
regardless of the overwhelming documentation supporting this case, today still
finds vice ridden extremists and corrupt designing individuals who
paradoxically ally themselves with faction, and they advocate pursuing
factional policies that exploit the nation.
They believe that safety somehow can be obtained through a process of
alienation that impoverishes people and oppresses citizens. Peace and prosperity, the twin genius of Democracy
utterly escape them. Their total
experience has been exclusively toward manipulating Democratic government
outcomes to produce negative results exclusively beneficial for faction that
are characteristically exploitative and oppressive, and they are accompanied by
aggressive expansion that’s injurious and accelerates the exhaustion of all
available resources; the effect is dysfunctional, with a proliferation of
dislocations and perturbations making productive and positive government
results progressively more difficult to obtain.
And, while contradistinctively the freedom loving spirit of Democratic
government promotes mutual forbearance and respect for human rights that create
an environment that induces the individual initiative necessary to catalyzes
industry and thrift, which in turn are necessary for the prosperity that leads
to the sustainable commercial development that benefits the entire nation. The rise of faction has a tendency to
extremist measures that inflame the misanthropic manners of men, which have so
often lead to wars of aggression abroad and exploitation and oppression at
home. Traditional Democracies like ours,
before the radical right faction Republican Revolution, promote cooperation and
commerce through their core Democratic values such as
It can’t be in faction’s true interests to deliberately cultivate contentious divisiveness and ignorant citizens, because that only functions to impoverish the nation through policies that serve to extort and coerce, so that the country is devoured by faction’s maw, as they continue to blindly pursue power. If their efforts to change the nation where truthful, prudent, and reasonable that ultimately were just, they would have done it in an open and honest way that slowly made sure to promote the country’s true interests and could’ve been stopped at any time in order to avoid serious injury – it would have honestly promoted peace, prosperity, and freedom in pursuit of Equality and Happiness for all classes of our country’s citizens. Hasn’t it degenerated into a contrary state of vice and corruption, one that our founding fathers warned us about, as always accompanying inflamed passions which somehow pursue immediate interests exclusively beneficial to those villainous opportunistic elements who always are waiting to benefit by ill advised measures hastily employed and established in a tyrannical effort to habituate society’s conduct to their imperious predominance; rather than, the wisdom established by the ages of utilizing a disinterested analysis and changing established policies with slow measured deliberation so that the results can be carefully discerned and evaluated for their merit, to see if they’re useful, temperate and just. Haven’t popular elected traditional Democracies protected Civil Rights, promoted prosperity fairly for the benefit of the entire society, and pursued policies producing peace better than previous examples and other available alternative forms of government including the recently failed radical right faction Republican Revolution? One thing is certain all forms of government are conducted by people and potentially vulnerable to human foibles. One serious cause for concern is that while we’ve already re-learned from the radical right faction’s subordinate tyrants that Democratic tyranny is still the most virulent known to man, it attacks more victims and tends to utilize more extreme measures that severely persecute, when a popular majority isn’t sitting securely as a prosperous middle class functioning as a healthy market for goods and services and stabilizing influence moderating the more excessive expressions of popular prejudices, particularly those surreptitiously initiated and conducted to gratify the caprice of a bigoted bias of tyranny deceptively manipulating a misguided majority from behind the scenes through the media: it still perniciously persists. One lesson we’ve learned from the absolute failure of the radical right Republican Revolution manipulated majorities are subject to the same aversions, prejudices, subordinations, and desires for corrupt greed driven gains that any tyranny does, when given the opportunity to abuse power without either moral or legal restraint. One only has to look at the radical right faction Republican record to see a plethora of legislatively endorsed examples of reactionary rage generated bills, emotional resentment, and an avaricious view of government as a means of making money at the public’s expense, where political campaign contributions are so great they’re nothing but political investments that cause government to become exploitative as legislative bills are ill disguised measures to optimize the campaign contributors’ rates of return, the more exploitative the better because it generates greater short term returns to the political investor-campaign contributor; but, it comes at the long term cost of more quickly exhausting our resources and impoverishing the country. It’s a well known fact that with today’s extreme concentrations of wealth government policies are made by a limited number of individuals in the employ of faction, who are under qualified, and any who are skilled are warped to vice by pursuing policies exclusively designed to immediately make money for the exclusive benefit of faction, and they’re like all pawns of tyrants and reflect the bigoted biases and interests of the radical right faction’s few ruling elite. The object of our wars of aggression has always been the same blind lustful pursuit of power that increased industrial-military and oil and natural gas profits represent. There has never been as many wars in the history of the nation as since the radical right faction Republican Revolution, and the USA has never before been disgraced by fighting a war of aggression purely for profit and the opportunity to pilfer other people’s property, like transpired at the beginning of the Iraq war, with the theft of Iraq oil, that has recently struck again and stolen massive quantities oil that has not so mysteriously disappeared and not benefited the good citizens of either, the USA, or, Iraq. The radical right faction corruption has caused the US to start six wars in the last 25 years and three in the last eight, which occurred without the USA having, according to its chief security officer, a single adversary in the world; and, which were obviously occasioned by the corrupt duplicity of faction aided by its adjunct entertainment media and the apathy and cupidity of the American public, as was the case with the Vietnam War. The avaricious motives of America’s radical right faction has never been more blatant and with the media propaganda machine’s able help has produced a pattern of the destructive abuse of power unprecedented in US history, which went without widespread public opposition till recently, by effectively beguiling the American public. Let our collective recent past experience coupled with common sense guide us in an analysis of these disturbing developments.
Antiquity
was guided by the similar commercial considerations directing their
governments’ actions, as today’s current radical right factional Republican
oligopoly - tyranny. Jason and the
Argonauts pursued the golden fleece along long standing established
inter-regional trade routes to a northern neighbor which was rich in the
mineral resource gold, and hence the descriptive clever multi-allegorical name
of the golden fleece. Homer’s Iliad
recorded the struggle for control of the Northern trade routes from the
fledgling Mediterranean markets and the resource rich and established large
river valley markets of the East, much as the newly discovered
The
establishment of
Antecedent
to
There
has been a great deal written about the furious competition between
The only reason that the World Wars were fought was because of competitive economic considerations that couldn’t be successfully resolved. The desire for displacing an existing commercial arrangement, either redirecting natural resources, or in subordinating general trade and industrial patterns to alter those who are its primary beneficiary has caused every war for over a century. And, that includes the ever volatile Middle-East, with its historical basis that predates existing economic determinism and includes the religious and political ‘isms’ that fanatics irrationally use to justify a behavior that all major religions prohibit, when it occurs on a reduced social scale – murder.
From
this brief summary of Occidental History, whose situations are most relevant to
the
Let
the extreme nadir point of the Largest National Debt in the history of the
World, which they receive the interest on, and the three phony foreign wars of
aggression, to steal another country’s oil resources for faction’s private
avarice while bleeding us of our wealth, so they can try to duplicitously steel
Social Security and Medicare by profitably privatizing them and then providing
essential health care and retirement service exclusively for those few who can
still afford to pay. The cruel fact is
that the increased cost of war to the
So
for the central tenant of the radical right faction Republican Revolution
abusing power with an adjunct media-propaganda machine fashioned after Nazi
Germany’s and subordinating other’s Civil Rights that is a pleasant way of
saying your being oppressed by coercion and extortion, by those subordinate
tyrants who’ve habituated themselves to vice and corruption so long as they can
get their share, while lulling asleep our public’s prudent apprehension about
poverty, and bondage, and dislocations, and perturbations that resulted from an
economy formerly based on a business cycle that’s transformed into a negative
cumulative circular causatory spiral in a negative direction, as society
degenerates from a society characterized by Liberty, Equality, and Egalitarian
Safeguards to one were power compels all to fit the empty superficial delusions
of bored, vanity driven egos, while reality reflects every imperfect weakness
and evil which our enemies could wish to see us afflicted. The radical right faction Republican
Revolution views government as a means of making money; but, if in Democracy
the genius of government is found in its people from which it’s constructed,
then, faction can only make money by pursuing policies that exploit people.
This can only last a short time that’s why
In
a related addendum, the radical right faction has recently commenced efforts at
the Universities of our nation to offer college classes for credit to train
subordinate tyrants and others to speak with foreign dialects. These efforts seem to be designed to
facilitate their dishonest efforts to misrepresent themselves at home and
abroad with only one possible behavioral intent, to deliberately deceive other
people in order to do them harm. It should
be pointed out that deception, like power that’s not used for self-defense, can
never help people, it only has the capacity to hurt; and, the radical right
faction subordinate tyrants are increasingly finding it difficult to contact
people traveling abroad, because they set people up. And the natural response
is that people now no longer have anything to do with the hated Americans, and
the unpopular role of the
And, in conclusion we should stop
the Mid-East wars now and return all troops to