Still Life: Cafe Scene

A café, a room, under roof and leaf

Falling. It is grey; it is wet inside

And out. Lids sag from the hours, hands

Locked in a flower. Sugar and salt

Look the same. Slowly, the grey

Turns to yellow, the front to the back.

Proverbs drop through the floor’s

Cracks. Broken glass hides under

An unbalanced chair. Its sparkled

Edges have begun to warm. Slippery

Grains of polished wood lie quiet

And smothered. Smoke from cracked

Lips remembers an image—

Colourless lovers walking in rain.

A scarf of brightest red

Flames, breaks out from the frame.

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Posted by Hannah S. at 17:36

via Works of Hannah S.

Thanks and a tip o’the hat to The Awl for reminding me of this! ~blm

I have been puzzled for years about something seemingly embedded into the very DNA of myself and others – specifically we as Americans – regarding our sense of entitlement. Our arrogant disregard of facts and truth. Our need to have simple solutions encapsulated in slogans, bumper stickers and buttons. Our inability to carefully and thoughtfully develop our own ideas, values and thinking about life.

Re-writing history or celebrating ignorance?

Please note I include myself in this group.

This weekend, between chores, I’ve been reading a long-form review of the book, Going Rogue, – An American Life, by Sarah Palin. (See…I didn’t actually want to read it myself, but need someone else to read and interpret for me.)

The writer, Rudolph Delson, is streaming his review of her just published book on The AWL as he reads it cover-to-cover this weekend. He is humorous at times, sarcastic  and apparently bewildered by her at others.

I’ve enjoyed reading his impressions and find it worth my time. (See first paragraph)

Today is the second day of him writing and my reading the streaming review. Delson writes this about Palin:

“The foggy mystery of Palin’s popularity burns off sometimes; sometimes I am able to see in bright light why she is beloved. She is beloved because she (is) willing to tell Americans that just because they are ignorant does not mean they are wrong.”

That is the answer to my wonderings.  ~blm