Frederick Pollack wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick McManus"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 3:13 AM
> Subject: Re: 3 poems
>
>
>> Dear Frederick I identified a lot with the first poem -that's where I
>> am at
>> at the moment social things are difficult for me -I do not have the
>> energy
>> Cheers Patrick
>>
>
> Hang in, Patrick --- I think this is a very common mood now ---
It's called the Vulture Theory. As in two vultures on a tree limb,
looking at a totally empty desert. One vulture turns to the other and
says "Patience, your ass. I'm gonna kill something." 'Tis the season.
It is the season for Christian Vituperation. Today's *Salon*--an article
about Charles Graner, the last American captive being held--in Ft.
Leavenworth no less--for his part in Abu Ghraib. The story itself leans
toward Enough Already. The responses from the educated *Salon*
readership are 90% "Tough shit, he did it to other people, now let him
rot in hell." And so America slides in the mentality of a military
prison...if it ever wasn't. Is this economically based? Why not? When
things get bad the veneer gets ripped back and we get to see what we
always have been: educated or not, the knuckles drag bloodily on the ground.
I don't envy my class at noon.
ken
--
Ken Wolman http://bestiaire.typepad.com http://www.petsit.com/content317832.html
---------------------------------
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."--Francine du Plessix Gray
|