what it ain't

Art can't be measured along an ethical bell-curve in which all god's chillun are welcomed aboard the ark.

- curtis faville

CATEXTROPHE

i saw the best minds of our society
destroyed by text messaging
car crashes train wrecks
metastasizing devices murdering brain cells
immediacy
replacing understanding
weapons of destruction of the masses

guns don't kill people improvised explosive messages do

by the roadside in the thoroughfare car
bomb truck bomb bus bomb plane
bomb
bomb bomb bomb

inattention is the new concentration
soon we will all be twittering machines
Another catextrophe bites the dust in the wind
where the answers blow

(this is a poem by bill borneman
if you read it you must pay me and then i will see that he gets a cut)

vernal observation

rain
wind
leaves

insight in to corruption

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

--aung san suu kyi

human upheaval

marches and riots in tehran
the leaders are not trusted
ahmadinajab is weakened
green flags everywhere
the women of iran are rising up
the streets are noisy and crazy
o tehran tehran tehran
do not forget our love
be at peace o beautiful tehran

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what's madness but nobility of soul
at odds with circumstance?

- theodore roethke

artistic teleology

one does not inherit an audience
one builds one
one reader at a time

- david bromige +2009