Rain, Isolation, Self-Analysis
'The world is myself; life is myself'. - Wallace Stevens
1.
The gray has delivered a calm emptiness,
over subdued thinkers and lonely movers,
who look through windows and the windowless.
It is like old men relinquishing ornery youth,
relinquishing the spirit of the hipster years,
and within this approaching, full downpour,
Ye Idyll Of Ye Hippopopotamus
With a Methodist hymn in his musical throat,
The Sun was emitting his ultimate note;
His quivering larynx enwrinkled the sea
Like an Ichthyosaurian blowing his tea;
When sweetly and pensively rattled and rang
This plaint which an Hippopopotamus sang:
'O, Camomile, Calabash, Cartilage-pie,
Spread for my spirit a peppermint fry;
Crown me with doughnuts, and drape me with cheese,
....Sonnet Xiii....
She wrote:
i replayed:
Jesus Wept
Fiscal Conservatism
Blatantly destroying
Social consciousness
While piously drawing
Parallels of righteousness
To its Christian views..
As the mantra of Christ
..Is hypocritically abused
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Life.
Life starts with meeting
and fusion of sperm and ovum
forming a single celled zygote
in mother's womb.
Lands on earth,
a multicellular individual
like a fresh bloom.
Then life continues
sans your choice,
sometimes flowers,
Bah
I am a coffin,
I am the dark knots of wood
That cover the rotting corpse,
And horrors of death.
I am mascara,
I am the black strands of poisen
That coat and hide tearful eyes,
But no more than needs to be.
I am a curtain,
I am a sheet of cotton
Cynical
Sarcastic?
I am not!
I am cynical.
With touches of skepticism,
Sautéed with the best of dysfunctions...
And blessed to have a blend of conservatism,
Spiced to delight my sometimes liberal...
Yet most times nonconformist tastes!
Now take your judgemental ass somewhere else!
Conservatism
Conservatism is the process
That admits not anything first.
Religions are kept alive
Solely on conservatism.
21.04.2007
A Bihari Fool Asking His Daughter
A Bihari fool,
Dressed in clumsy white dhoti and kurta,
With a tikki,
A clamp of hair
Hanging from the crown of the head,
A blunt fool indeed,
Never a classical Sanskrit scholar
Questioning and inquiring his innocent daughter,
'Why did you,
Did you smile on seeing a boy? '
Mulk Raj Anand (A Long Poem)
Mulk Raj Anand,
Say you, how to research you,
A novelist Indian
Whose novels read not the Indians,
But the foreigners
As for interpreting caste, class and society,
The ismic India of the ismic people?
While travelling in the trains and buses,
People asked about the caste and class
Mulk Raj Anand (Ii)
Mulk Raj Anand,
Say you, how to research you,
A novelist Indian
Whose novels read not the Indians,
But the foreigners
As for interpreting caste, class and society,
The ismic India of the ismic people?
While travelling in the trains and buses,
People asked about the caste and class
Hypocrites...All….Singing Yesterday's Song
Politics the game…of smoke and mirrors
…..Reverend Wright…..Obama's wrong
Scalise..the pride…of Dukedom's hour
Hypocrites caught-up in yesterday's song
'Conservatism'…simply..a theoretical farce
….'Fiscal'……but…the devious thought
'Unlimited spending on pet projects'...
Is what 'Fiscal Conservatism'..is all about
Ancient Doweer, Modern Heritage
What Wordsworth terms “our ancient Dower, ”
describing heritage of Britain,
has faded like the fresher flower
of the USA. Unwritten
the rules that governed both these places
when people, poor no less than rich,
felt unity to be the basis
of an inherent heritage
which Britons claimed as ancient, and
Americans claimed as brand new
He Do Polite In Different Voices
HE DO POLITE IN DIFFERENT VOICES
He do polite in different voices,
as well as those most impolite,
but whether Eliot's or Joyce's,
he's hesitant to start a fight,
believing he can reconcile
opposites which, diametric,
he brings together with a smile
Power Of Invective
Although we love the power of invective,
considering messages when words are kind
and decent overwhelmingly defective,
we should avoid it if we aren’t frontlined.
Far better to use captivating charm
than curse the darkness of the wits that, dull,
aren’t sharp enough to understand the harm
they do themselves by living in their skull.
Inspired by William Kristol’s tribute to William Buckley, among who claims to fame was his program “Frontline”. In the NYT on March 3,2008 (“The Indispensable Man”) , Kristol describes the Buckley-inspired political button Kristol had worn while in school, “Don’t let THEM immanentize the Eschaton, ” and the dinner that Buckley had with Larry Perelman a days before he died:
Parenthesis, Empty And Filled
When empty, a parenthesis
provides mysterious emphasis;
when filled, you wonder whether
the contents weigh more than a feather.
George Will reviews Rick Perlstein’s “Nixonland” in the NYT Book Review, May 11,2008. The editor introduces the review with this:
No conservative writer was tougher on Richard Nixon than George F. Will, the longtime columnist for The Washington Post and Newsweek — particularly on the subject of “the 784-day Watergate debacle, ” as he once termed it. “The Nixon White House ran amok as no other has done, and its abuses were uniquely lurid and sinister, ” Will wrote on Aug.8,1974, the day Nixon announced he would resign from the presidency. Will, who returns to the subject this week in his cover review of Rick Perlstein’s “Nixonland, ” thinks the Nixon presidency now looks “even worse than it seemed at the time, ” he said in an e-mail message. “Regarding domestic policy, which Nixon dismissed as ‘building outhouses in Peoria, ’ his disdain for the subject did not, alas, produce benign neglect.” In foreign policy, Nixon’s “‘realism’ was unrealistic — too pessimistic about America’s stamina for protracted containment, too optimistic about the Soviet Union’s adaptability to modern economic exigencies. His policy toward China lives on: we are wagering that prosperity will subvert tyranny.” How, then, does Nixon fit into the larger story of modern conservatism? “He doesn’t. His tenure was an empty parenthesis.”
5/12/08
Gut
“The gut is not the seat of wisdom but
it is the bottom line, ” declares the gut.
“What happens in the brain may not be felt
in lower areas below the belt, ”
declares the brain. Though many people trust
their gut, and therefore put their brain on hold,
and with their intuition go for bust,
they risk the pot and may collapse, potholed.
As a guide, the gut is very fallible;
and those who aren’t extremely hesitant
Smooth And Amiable, Opaque
Smooth and amiable, opaque,
with facades like scrims, genteel,
my friends are ones you ought to take
unseriously, and for a meal
just when you think you’ve nothing better
to do, like watching television,
or sending the White House a letter,
or working out with great precision
your taxes for another audit.
Should it be that you don’t wish
The Opposable Thumbs And Thoughts Of Conservatism
Confounded from all of the confusion
Between that of wrong and right
I found myself firmly enslaved
By the political correctness
Of having been born a white.
I’m a round eye and I don’t
Feel the liberals need to apologize
For that of my obvious birthright.
All politics is written in broken syntaxes
Rush Limbaugh, Keep Tazing Them Bro!
Rush, Keep Tazing Them Liberals Bro!
Wake them liberals from their drug induced
Pot smoking medical marijuana stupor
Keep rattling their dirty cages
Fouled by their failed tax and spend mentality
Shake up the halls of Congress
May America’s voice of freedom always ring
From the golden microphone of Conservatism and EIB
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