Poetry post: Walt Whitman: To the States, several verses
To the States:
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.
~~
To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad
WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters!
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, your torrid suns! O north, your arctic freezings!)
Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
Then I will sleep awhile yet-for I see that These States sleep, for reasons;
(With gathering murk-with muttering thunder and lambent shoots, we all duly awake,
South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
~~
Download Leaves of Grass from from Librivox. Thanks to poetic_self who found and shared this site.
And, in this month's Yes! Magazine:
Fall 2007: Stand Up to Corporate Power // Living Wealth: Better Than Money
I'm not pointing any fingers. I know a lot of us work for corporations, or our families do, or we have income from that. I'm only saying, lets look at these entities, these that have, in US law, at least, personhood under the law, and see if we support the heart in them, in ourselves, in life. I invite discussion, experiences from outside the US, questioning, exploration.
ETA: Idealist.org grad fairs this fall. I love Idealist. Check it out to see why.
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
afterward resumes its liberty.
~~
To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad
WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters!
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, your torrid suns! O north, your arctic freezings!)
Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
Then I will sleep awhile yet-for I see that These States sleep, for reasons;
(With gathering murk-with muttering thunder and lambent shoots, we all duly awake,
South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
~~
Download Leaves of Grass from from Librivox. Thanks to poetic_self who found and shared this site.
And, in this month's Yes! Magazine:
Fall 2007: Stand Up to Corporate Power // Living Wealth: Better Than Money
I'm not pointing any fingers. I know a lot of us work for corporations, or our families do, or we have income from that. I'm only saying, lets look at these entities, these that have, in US law, at least, personhood under the law, and see if we support the heart in them, in ourselves, in life. I invite discussion, experiences from outside the US, questioning, exploration.
ETA: Idealist.org grad fairs this fall. I love Idealist. Check it out to see why.