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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
In Time by W. S. Merwin
In Time by W. S. Merwin : Poetry Magazine
In Time
The night the world was going to end
when we heard those explosions not far away
and the loudspeakers telling us
about the vast fires on the backwater
consuming undisclosed remnants
and warning us over and over
to stay indoors and make no signals
you stood at the open window
the light of one candle back in the room
we put on high boots to be ready
for wherever we might have to go
and we got out the oysters and sat
at the small table feeding them
to each other first with the fork
then from our mouths to each other
until there were none and we stood up
and started to dance without music
slowly we danced around and around
in circles and after a while we hummed
when the world was about to end
all those years all those nights ago
Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye
Burning the Old Year
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Prejudices
Beet Girl believes.
In kazoos.
In love.
In moss and clover.
In cussing, and if necessary
Beet Girl will not shy from socking a bad guy
in the eye. Fie Fi.
Fo Fum.
xo
In kazoos.
In love.
In moss and clover.
In cussing, and if necessary
Beet Girl will not shy from socking a bad guy
in the eye. Fie Fi.
Fo Fum.
xo
Icarus and the Like
The following question has been raised: Does Beet Girl fly?
She has flown on airplanes, obviously, but this, of course, is not the kind of flying to which, to whit, our questioner is questioning. Therefore said question remains, as yet, unanswered. Can Beet Girl take flight?
She has been seen jumping up from the ground into the air, making her own sound effects as she leaps, red cape aloft behind her, as if buoyed by an air current. However Beet Girl has never been observed actually flying in mid-air or landing, as have, for example, Peter Pan, Super Man, Super Grover (see previous posting) Icarus and his Dad to name but a few.
That is all for now.
Except that Beet G. wants it publicly stated that the rumors are true:
While she is not in any way against the Dalai Lama or Maya Angelou neither is she a fan of either of the aforementioned, oft-beloved, public figures. In fact, she might, depending on the time of day, and/or her mood, go so far as to say that they bug her. Bzzzzzzz.
Now, grow all my little beets, grow! Spring has sprung in New England, the grass has riz.
Rock On, Rock Out,
and in the words of Anatole Broyard from one of his essays in Intoxicated By My Illness(1990) "For godsakes cling to your prejudices!"
PS-Prejudices are not to be confused with bigotries or intolerance by the by.
She has flown on airplanes, obviously, but this, of course, is not the kind of flying to which, to whit, our questioner is questioning. Therefore said question remains, as yet, unanswered. Can Beet Girl take flight?
She has been seen jumping up from the ground into the air, making her own sound effects as she leaps, red cape aloft behind her, as if buoyed by an air current. However Beet Girl has never been observed actually flying in mid-air or landing, as have, for example, Peter Pan, Super Man, Super Grover (see previous posting) Icarus and his Dad to name but a few.
That is all for now.
Except that Beet G. wants it publicly stated that the rumors are true:
While she is not in any way against the Dalai Lama or Maya Angelou neither is she a fan of either of the aforementioned, oft-beloved, public figures. In fact, she might, depending on the time of day, and/or her mood, go so far as to say that they bug her. Bzzzzzzz.
Now, grow all my little beets, grow! Spring has sprung in New England, the grass has riz.
Rock On, Rock Out,
and in the words of Anatole Broyard from one of his essays in Intoxicated By My Illness(1990) "For godsakes cling to your prejudices!"
PS-Prejudices are not to be confused with bigotries or intolerance by the by.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Am I Legible?
Beet Girl saw Bat Man (1) hanging out in Greenwich Village once back in the 60's. He was with Bruce Wayne, if you know what I mean.
Huh?
Anyway, Beet Girl is not a Book Worm (2)
Go, figure.
Does anybody know where Miss Limpet (3) got her red threads?
Definitely Beet Girl style.
Oh yeah!
xox Over and Out, BG
Huh?
Anyway, Beet Girl is not a Book Worm (2)
Go, figure.
Does anybody know where Miss Limpet (3) got her red threads?
Definitely Beet Girl style.
Oh yeah!
xox Over and Out, BG
Birth of a Reckless Caped Crusader
As she released the beet from her hand, watching it arc through the air into the bed of his pick-up truck, she thought, for the first time, that she hoped there was no artwork or freshly-finished furniture there. She thought of the red stain her beet would leave and the potential damage it might do depending on the torque of her throw and the force of the hit.
Relieved to hear the sound of metal, not wood or something else, she sped off without looking back.
And so Beet Girl was born.
And so Beet Girl remains.
Fighting the patriarchy beet by bloody beautiful sweet beet.
Armed with her sass and her vegetable hand grenades.
She laughs into the wind and tries to remember
not to spit.
Rock on all my Lush Greens, BG
ps=Happy Birthday to my LLSP. 16.
Relieved to hear the sound of metal, not wood or something else, she sped off without looking back.
And so Beet Girl was born.
And so Beet Girl remains.
Fighting the patriarchy beet by bloody beautiful sweet beet.
Armed with her sass and her vegetable hand grenades.
She laughs into the wind and tries to remember
not to spit.
Rock on all my Lush Greens, BG
ps=Happy Birthday to my LLSP. 16.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Be Ever On the Look-Out
Beet Girl's getaway vehicles
include, but are not limited to, the following:
-- a small pick-up truck either gold or ahite
--an emerald green, woman's 3-speed Raleigh. Think Miss Almira Gulch (aka Wicked Witch of the West) on her bicycle.*
oh yes, sometimes she takes off on foot.
Whooooosh.
* The bicycle was recognized by nineteenth-century feminists and suffragists as a "freedom machine" for women. American Susan B. Anthony said in a New York World interview on February 2, 1896: "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood." In the 1890s the bicycle craze led to a movement for so-called rational dress, which helped liberate women from corsets and ankle-length skirts and other restrictive garments, substituting the then-shocking bloomers.
From http://fusionanomaly.net/bicycles.html
include, but are not limited to, the following:
-- a small pick-up truck either gold or ahite
--an emerald green, woman's 3-speed Raleigh. Think Miss Almira Gulch (aka Wicked Witch of the West) on her bicycle.*
oh yes, sometimes she takes off on foot.
Whooooosh.
* The bicycle was recognized by nineteenth-century feminists and suffragists as a "freedom machine" for women. American Susan B. Anthony said in a New York World interview on February 2, 1896: "Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood." In the 1890s the bicycle craze led to a movement for so-called rational dress, which helped liberate women from corsets and ankle-length skirts and other restrictive garments, substituting the then-shocking bloomers.
From http://fusionanomaly.net/bicycles.html
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Rule of BEET-iquette # 23
Rule of BEET-iquette #23
When offered a cup of coffee purchased for you by any animal, vegetable or mineral take said coffee, smile, say -- thank you. In addition you could say something to the beet of -- how kind of you to think of me. Now you are free to ask--is it milk or cream?
Upon discovering that said coffee has been sullied with milk, simply nod, take a few sips, maybe it will not be as unpleasant as you believe. Resume conversation.
Upon preparing to part from aforementioned animal, vegetable or mineral say -- i am going to get a cup of coffee for myself for the road. I prefer cream. Would you like the rest of this one? Again this would be an opportune time to say something to the beet of -- it was so nice of you to buy me a coffee. i am a picky coffee drinker!
Voila! You have come to the end of #23.
In Solidarity,
Beet Girl
When offered a cup of coffee purchased for you by any animal, vegetable or mineral take said coffee, smile, say -- thank you. In addition you could say something to the beet of -- how kind of you to think of me. Now you are free to ask--is it milk or cream?
Upon discovering that said coffee has been sullied with milk, simply nod, take a few sips, maybe it will not be as unpleasant as you believe. Resume conversation.
Upon preparing to part from aforementioned animal, vegetable or mineral say -- i am going to get a cup of coffee for myself for the road. I prefer cream. Would you like the rest of this one? Again this would be an opportune time to say something to the beet of -- it was so nice of you to buy me a coffee. i am a picky coffee drinker!
Voila! You have come to the end of #23.
In Solidarity,
Beet Girl
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Keep on Keeping On, We Must. Of Course Don't Get Me Wrong, Naps and Hanging Out Are Fully a Part of Keeping On
Scott Nearing (1883-1983) most definitely cultivated the beets. Literally and.
And I quote:
"It is our opportunity,
our destiny,
and our responsibility
to keep on
living, constructing,
creating.
We must live, not die.
We must not stop.
WE MUST GO ON."
From a broadsheet originally handset and printed at Bread and Puppet Press 1984
And I quote:
"It is our opportunity,
our destiny,
and our responsibility
to keep on
living, constructing,
creating.
We must live, not die.
We must not stop.
WE MUST GO ON."
From a broadsheet originally handset and printed at Bread and Puppet Press 1984
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