that was spectacular Mark, ex tempore?
which listee was it on here (sorry I forget) who had the Roman
proverb, "in times of peace, sons bury their fathers; in times of war,
fathers bury their sons".
there's a poem I wrote almost exactly a year ago, called "war poem".
it isn't that good, but I have no quote to offer so this is here
instead.
WAR POEM
the toxic dirt
of our neglect & faith
pulls itself along cracked cobbles,
burnt sand,
tides of a swamp,
nameless sky;
along familiar shreds
with huge tugs
of a looped rope¯
the universe whirls dully
around a bullet
dreaming in its chamber
of the gnarled, sooty, beautiful stories
it heard whispered as ore.
one frightening, cordless, resistant vein
connects the whorled winter grass of my yard
to the caves of enemies¯
the knuckled caverns where fear
never used to live.
I eat a Twix
& hope for snow.
KS
On 18/10/2007, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A sort of footnote to Homer.
>
> Every morning for 10 years 10,000 Greeks took a shit and went out to fight.
> Three million six hundred fifty thousand dumps, and Scamander
> ran brown in the morning, red
> in the afternoon. Plus horses
> sheep and cattle.
>
> That, and the carnage.
> They leveled forests
> to burn the bodies.
>
> Greeks bearing gifts?
> A no-brainer.
>
> Dropping a cat into a nest of birds.
>
> Sow the ground with salt,
> leave nothing for longing
> no stone on stone.
>
>
> At 05:21 PM 10/17/2007, you wrote:
> >Ares, most hated of gods to gods and men.
> >
> > -- Homer
> >
> >
> >You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is
> >the good war that hallows every cause.
> >
> > -- Friedrich Nietzsche
> >
> >
> >War is an end disguised as a means... It is deferred infanticide.
> >
> > -- Gaston Bouthoul
> >
> >
> >War is he revenge of the old upon the young.
> >
> > -- K. R. Eissler
> >
> >
> >Old men send young men to die, as they finger those long, hard rifle
> >barrels: that's all the power they have...
> >
> > -- TImothy Leary
> >
> >
> >No man is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, since in peace sons
> >bury their fathers, while in war fathers bury their sons.
> >
> > -- Herodotus
> >
> >
> >--
> >===================================
> >
> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
> >
> >===================================
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