tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348619622024-03-05T00:21:15.700-05:00The Twin's ShadowThere was once a wive's tale that children originate as twins within the womb, but throughout the pregnancy one of the twins devours its sibling.
The surviving twin is tortured with the guilt of having the "vanished twin" within them, the other twin's shadow haunting them for life.Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-83693680131155602982011-03-27T12:33:00.003-04:002011-03-27T12:44:51.241-04:00Anonypop -Just a Number 05272011<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/20787792"></a></p><iframe height="400" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20787792" frameborder="0" width="710"></iframe>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-16579925531452127302010-09-24T09:13:00.005-04:002010-11-05T04:14:14.054-04:00Good "God's Country" People<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view¤t=_________matttte.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/_________matttte.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-41829555026909258762010-09-15T06:08:00.003-04:002010-09-15T06:14:27.947-04:00They Just Kept Calling Out & Calling Out - An Operetta In a Terrarium<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view¤t=blog091510isnotadocumentaryfilm.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510isnotadocumentaryfilm.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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<br />Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-48385338599261625692010-09-15T04:25:00.005-04:002010-09-15T06:02:02.883-04:00Never Tell Someone They're Beautiful If They Already Know It.<embed height="457" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" src="http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="all" wmode="transparent" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fvid114.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fn274%2Fcaspere%2FUsed%2Ffhe-obnoxious-id.mp4"></embed><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#cc66cc;">"What is most curious about America is that no matter what you say about it...<br />it is always true."</span> <span style="font-size:78%;color:#cccccc;">O.W.</span><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womanpinksweatercurious.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womanpinksweatercurious.jpg" /></a>do you remember how you leapt...<br />where no profane foot has ever set <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womanpainedworried.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womanpainedworried.jpg" /></a> but I<br />will remember this hour<br />till I die:<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510catherinedeneuveasnurseindark.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510catherinedeneuveasnurseindark.jpg" /></a><br />"Those people have taken advantage of us..."<br />and the rest of us stood naked in the rain,<br />a neat line waiting,<br />not saying anything,<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=blog091510blondewomanshorthairsaiddespondant.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510blondewomanshorthairsaiddespondant.jpg" /></a><br />but he barked from an ignorant angry throat,<br />"Those people have taken advantage;"<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womaninpinksweatercrop.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womaninpinksweatercrop.jpg" /></a><br />Did he speak for himself or for<br />the rest of the sun bronzed giants?<br />Portraits of history made stone<br />pillars to butress lesser acomplishments.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womaninbank-TheSilentPartner1978.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womaninbank-TheSilentPartner1978.jpg" /></a><br />It was want, whose name alone was vulgarity.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510oldwomanbuninhairshadow-familylife.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510oldwomanbuninhairshadow-familylife.jpg" /></a><br />rats leave the sinking ship but we...<br />we didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink,<br />and that's madness,<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womanperplexeddinnertable.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/blog091510womanperplexeddinnertable.jpg" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-25940317569156640592009-04-30T20:31:00.010-04:002009-05-01T19:55:37.349-04:00Fitfull Un-Realization of the Limits of Force of Planetary Gravity-or- This is How We <em>Learned</em> to Walk on the Moon.<a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/koBJd.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/koBJd.jpg" /></a><object id="divplaylist" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="760" height="28"><param name="_cx" value="20108"><param name="_cy" value="741"><param name="FlashVars" value=""><param name="Movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7252740-01c"><param name="Src" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7252740-01c"><param name="WMode" value="Window"><param name="Play" value="-1"><param name="Loop" value="-1"><param name="Quality" value="High"><param name="SAlign" value="LT"><param name="Menu" value="-1"><param name="Base" value=""><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value=""><param name="Scale" value="NoScale"><param name="DeviceFont" value="0"><param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"><param name="BGColor" value=""><param name="SWRemote" value=""><param name="MovieData" value=""><param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"><param name="Profile" value="0"><param name="ProfileAddress" value=""><param name="ProfilePort" value="0"><param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7252740-01c" width="760" height="28" name="divplaylist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><span style="font-size:130%;">I have more zest than a boat pushing the sea aside, because it pushes it evenly.</span><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/10-1.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/10-1.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">I enjoy spasmodically.<br />As if the sun would be put out and be born again.</span><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/3.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/3.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">For this is worth getting addicted.<br />To be able to be dragged out,<br />to be whipped as a kind of Christ.</span><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/PDVD_255.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/PDVD_255.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">But engineers who made the paw to the bridge, the girders,<br />don’t remain in history.<br />They lack spasmodicality.</span><object id="divplaylist" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="760" height="28"><param name="_cx" value="20108"><param name="_cy" value="741"><param name="FlashVars" value=""><param name="Movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7252737-0d7"><param name="Src" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7252737-0d7"><param name="WMode" value="Window"><param name="Play" value="-1"><param name="Loop" value="-1"><param name="Quality" value="High"><param name="SAlign" value="LT"><param name="Menu" value="-1"><param name="Base" value=""><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value=""><param name="Scale" value="NoScale"><param name="DeviceFont" value="0"><param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"><param name="BGColor" value=""><param name="SWRemote" value=""><param name="MovieData" value=""><param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"><param name="Profile" value="0"><param name="ProfileAddress" value=""><param name="ProfilePort" value="0"><param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7252737-0d7" width="760" height="28" name="divplaylist" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/spiritualized.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/spiritualized.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">If my car would be thrown from the bridge over Loire,<br />or at least would be finely shaken,<br />I’d remember it.</span><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/snapshot20080826201014.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/snapshot20080826201014.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">The hand’s move is always the first one.</span><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/is49.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/is49.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">And the opening of your little mouth:<br />yours, yours, yours, is always the first thing, no matter the age.</span><a target="_blank" href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/evans_think_of_this_as_a_wi.jpg"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/evans_think_of_this_as_a_wi.jpg" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-81933351392883304332009-01-20T09:48:00.007-05:002010-07-10T21:03:45.164-04:00...As Will Also When Even The Callous Have Worn Tender<p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;">I, too, sing America.</span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=00.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/00.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=01.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/01.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"></span> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">They send me to eat in the kitchen... </span><br /></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=02.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/02.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;">when company comes,</span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=03.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/03.jpg" /></span></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=04.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/04.jpg" /></span></a> </p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;">but I laugh,</span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=05.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/05.jpg" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">and eat well,</span><br /></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=06.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/06.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">and grow strong.<br /></span></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=07.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/07.jpg" /></span></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=08.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/08.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span> <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tomorrow, I'll be at that table...</span> </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/09.jpg" /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">when company comes.</span></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=10.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/10.jpg" /></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;">And nobody'll dare say to me,</span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=11.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/11.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;">"Eat in the kitchen," then.</span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=12.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/12.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Besides, they'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed--<br /></span></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=13-1.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:180%;"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/13-1.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=14-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/14-1.jpg" /></a></p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;"></span><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;">I, too, am America.</span><br /></p>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-35248775030777059972008-11-24T00:45:00.003-05:002010-07-10T21:01:51.901-04:00Not Göring, It Was Never Göring. Goebbels Neither.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=chinesepropaganda.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/chinesepropaganda.jpg" /></a><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=_babiespledgingtokimjungil.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/_babiespledgingtokimjungil.jpg" /></a>-- --“Uninquisitive, completely myopic in her understanding of the legacy or her heraldry, the Queen is merely poorly educated and a Philistine.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=eyepatchwomanshotgunBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/eyepatchwomanshotgunBW.jpg" /></a><br />No paradise will entice you out of your barbed wire entanglement!”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=guntohead-chest.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/guntohead-chest.jpg" /></a> -- “That's for damned sure! Barbed wire is barbed wire! I know what I'm up against.... No rose without a thorn!”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=whatareyoulookingdicknose.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/whatareyoulookingdicknose.jpg" /></a>“...And the last thing I'll stand for is ideas to get the better of me! I know that rubbish from [before]..., fraternity, equality, freedom... beauty and dignity! You gotta use the right bait to hook 'em.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=revolutionistheopiumoftheintellectu.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/revolutionistheopiumoftheintellectu.jpg" /></a>“...And then, when you're right in the middle of a parlay they say: ‘Hands up!’ You're disarmed by those [liberal] voting swine! — No, let 'em keep their good distance with their whole ideological kettle of fish.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=gunfatmanlooking.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/gunfatmanlooking.jpg" /></a> “...I shoot with live ammunition! When I hear the word culture, I release the safety on my Browning!"<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=guninmouthwomansurprised.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/guninmouthwomansurprised.jpg" /></a>--“When I hear the word culture, I grab my revolver.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=peoplearestaring.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/peoplearestaring.jpg" /></a><br />--"Whenever I hear the word culture, I bring out my checkbook."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/?action=view&current=guntoheadriflegodard.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Used/guntoheadriflegodard.jpg" /></a>"Some years ago—some horrible years ago—the Nazis used to take out a pistol instead of a checkbook."Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-15054980004601051902008-10-14T23:06:00.004-04:002010-07-10T21:06:23.405-04:00We May Be Able to Repeat the Stories yet They Seem So Foreign<span style="font-size:85%;color:#999999;">-or-<br />Our Ulteriors and Their Effects on Our Posteriors</span><br /><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=001-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/001-1.jpg" /></a><br />August 11, 1928<br />"Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=002-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/002-1.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=003-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/003-1.jpg" /></a> September 17, 1928<br />"When we [the Republican Party] assumed direction of the Government in 1921 there were five to six million unemployed men upon our streets. Wages and salaries were falling and hours of labor increasing. . . . The Republican Administration at once undertook to find relief to this situation. At once a nationwide employment conference was called. . . . Within a year we restored these five million workers to employment. But we did more; we produced a fundamental program which made this restored employment secure on foundation of prosperity; as a result wages and standards of living have during the past six and a half years risen to steadily higher levels.<br />This recovery and this stability are no accident. It has not been achieved by luck. Were it not for sound governmental policies and wise leadership, employment condition in American today would be similar to those existing in many other parts of the world." <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=004a.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/004a.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=004b.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/004b.jpg" /></a> October 22, 1928<br />“Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.” <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=005-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/005-1.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=006.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/006.jpg" /></a> October 6, 1928<br />“As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=007-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/007-1.jpg" /></a> July 27, 1928<br />“The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.” <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=008-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/008-1.jpg" /></a> November, 1929<br />“Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=009-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/009-1.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=010-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/010-1.jpg" /></a> January 21, 1930<br />“Definite signs that business and industry have turned the corner from the he temporary period of emergency that followed deflation of the speculative market were seen today. The reports to the Cabinet showed that the tide of employment had changed in the right direction."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=011-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/011-1.jpg" /></a> March 8, 1930<br />“The worst effect of the crash upon unemployment will most certainly pass during the next sixty days.” <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=012-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/012-1.jpg" /></a> May 1, 1930<br />“While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States—that is, prosperity.” <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=013-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/013-1.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=014-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/014-1.jpg" /></a> October 2, 1930<br />“During the past year you have carried the credit system of the nation safely through a most difficult crisis. In this success you have demonstrated not alone the soundness of the credit system, but also the capacity of the bankers in emergency.” <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=015.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/015.jpg" /></a> October 21, 1930<br />“The idleness of the working public has become a drain upon the whole of the nation. The only valid response is that of expansion of business. Taxes on business are hindering the growth of this economy, and this hindrance is the beginning of a dangerous cycle for the health of this country’s economy. I am calling for an adjustment to the corporate tax code to encourage the expansion of the market and the help to place 2,500,000 persons back to work this winter.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=016.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/016.jpg" /></a> December 15, 1930<br />“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.” <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=017.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/017.jpg" /></a> June 15, 1931<br />“I am able to propose an American plan to you. . . . We plan more leisure for men and women and better opportunities for its enjoyment. We plan not only to provide for all the new generation, but we shall, by scientific research and invention, lift the standard of living and security of diffusion of wealth, a decrease in poverty and a great reduction in crime. And this plan will be carried out if We Just Keep on giving the American people a chance.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=018-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/018-1.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=019-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/019-1.jpg" /></a> October 1931<br />“On September 8, I requested the governors of the Federal Reserve banks to endeavor to secure the co-operation of the bankers of their territory to make some advances on the security of the assets of closed banks or to take over some of these assets, in order that the receivers of those banks may pay some dividends to their depositors in advance of what would otherwise be the case pending liquidation. Such a measure will contribute to free many business activities and to relieve many families from hardship over the forthcoming winter, and in a measure reverse the process of deflation involved in the tying up of deposits."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=020-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/020-1.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=022-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/022-1.jpg" /></a> October 18, 1931<br />“The depression has been deepened by events from abroad which are beyond the control either of our citizens or our government.”<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=023-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/023-1.jpg" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-8881388281489704372008-10-14T15:27:00.006-04:002008-10-14T20:09:07.600-04:00...das schwerste Gewicht<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=HowIsAmerica.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/HowIsAmerica.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=__Inflation-1923.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/__Inflation-1923.jpg" border="0" /></a>There is a vicious adherence to the concept of blindness in the face of eternal return. History blocks our route and we stand still, impatiently waiting for the reality of the past to step aside and permit us passage. This will never happen.<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/wgVPAAl_BX/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/wgVPAAl_BX/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/jwzCXBgG/henry_bemis_false_piety_p1_apologetics/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=___andrenters.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/___andrenters.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=_andrenetersline.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_andrenetersline.jpg" border="0" /></a>Incidentally, I despise everything which merely instructs me without increasing or immediately enlivening my activity. Our consideration of the worth and the worthlessness of history may begin at the intersection where it affects or impedes our experience of being. This work is to set down why we must seriously despise instruction without explication, why we must reject the permitting of ill-knowledge which structures societally destructive memes, and and why we must repulse the anti-intellectualism that holds to the belief of history as a worthless surplus of knowledge; a luxury for the out-of-touch. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=__Facecorporatemutherfuckers.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/__Facecorporatemutherfuckers.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=holzer-002-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/holzer-002-1.jpg" border="0"/></a>This anti-elitism takes form and denies us what is most essential to us; they deny us our reliance of facts as if they were superfluous to the debate, and this superfluousness is necessarily aggressive and hostile to the rationality that is essential to logic. To be sure, we need history, but we need it in a manner different from the way in which the spoilt idler in the garden of knowledge uses it, no matter how elegantly he may look down on our coarse and graceless needs and distresses.<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/X4Gko2jnHB/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/X4Gko2jnHB/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/4vPYEF_6/henry_bemis_false_piety_p2_admonition/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=Picture2010.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Picture2010.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=Picture2014.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Picture2014.jpg" border="0"/></a> That is, we need history as that is permitting of life and action, not merely as a comfortable justification for turning away from life and action, or merely for glossing over the difficulties brought about by the absurdities of life or the subsequent cowardice to confront that absurdity. We wish to use history only insofar as it serves living in the most active senses. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=____pilesofmoney.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/____pilesofmoney.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=2096958646_3130eb8a0d_o.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/2096958646_3130eb8a0d_o.jpg" border="0" /></a> But there is a degree of history and a valuing of it through which life atrophies and degenerates. Insomuch as history is the story that power decides, the recording of the struggle of the individual dissolves in the face of itself, this is rarely recognized by the individual. To bring this phenomenon to light as a remarkable symptom of our time is every bit as necessary as it may be painful. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=cleaningsupplies.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/cleaningsupplies.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=nottobuyone.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/nottobuyone.jpg" border="0"/></a>I have tried to describe a feeling which has often enough tormented me. I take my revenge on this feeling when I expose it to the general public. Perhaps with such a description someone or other will have reason to point out to me that he also knows this particular sensation but that I have not felt it with sufficient purity and naturalness and definitely have not expressed myself with the appropriate certainty and mature experience. Perhaps one or two will respond in this way.<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/7Hm4LKiGwa/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/7Hm4LKiGwa/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/6Oe1BJ3j/henry_bemis_false_piety_p3_vengeance/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=mmmaxheadroom.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/mmmaxheadroom.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=Picture205.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Picture205.jpg" border="0"/></a>However, most people will tell me that this feeling is totally wrong, unnatural, abominable, and absolutely forbidden, that with it, in fact, I have shown myself unworthy of the powerful historical tendency of the times, as it has been, by common knowledge, observed for the past two generations, particularly among Americans. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=protectouramerican.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/protectouramerican.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=deressiongolddiggers.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/deressiongolddiggers.jpg" border="0"/></a>Whatever the reaction, now that I dare to expose myself with this natural description of my feeling, common decency will be fostered rather than shamed, because I am providing many opportunities for a contemporary tendency like the reaction just mentioned to make polite pronouncements. Moreover, I obtain for myself something of even more value to me than respectability: I become publicly instructed and set straight about our times. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=_lieslieslies.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_lieslieslies.jpg" border="0"/></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-6227180595715530502008-10-14T00:25:00.003-04:002008-10-14T20:06:59.248-04:00Prosperity Is No Idle Expression -HH, 10.22.28<a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5063/">"Oh Yeah?"</a> -Edward Angly <br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=017----.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/017----.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=018.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/018.jpg" border="0" /></a><object width="760" height="90"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/_IsRinM21X/aus=false/"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></param><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/_IsRinM21X/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"FlashVars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/zpojS-hG/ooioo_kila_kila_kila/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=019.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" 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src="http://media.imeem.com/m/8UEq-AxpLz/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"FlashVars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/L6DtZVyK/ooioo_aster/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=027.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/027.jpg" border="0" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-79141383560215761092008-10-09T07:57:00.007-04:002008-10-14T20:04:49.077-04:00Memories of Wall Street and Butchers Inc. (not Robt. Lowell)<span style="color:#999999;"><span style="font-size:78%;">(Daddy I want a pony, Daddy I want a pony NOW!!!)</span><br /></span><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=001.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/001.jpg" border="0" /></a>Not only on Tuesdays, but for the last two years<br />book-worming in pajamas<br />fresh from the washer each morning,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=005.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/005.jpg" border="0" /></a>I hog a whole chair hidden aloft in the Borough of Queen's<br />shy of "hardly passionate 30th Ave"<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=010.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/010.jpg" border="0" /></a>where even the man<br />scavenging filth in the back alley trash cans,<br />has two children, a beach wagon, a helpmate,<br />and is "a young Republican."<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/aAbshBqg6K/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/aAbshBqg6K/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/pQoQwyC-/trex_satisfaction_pony/"></a></object>I have a nine months' grudge,<br />new enough to seem as if I have held it<br />my whole life.<br />Like the sun that rises<br />in flame-flamingo infants' hearts.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=004.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/004.jpg" border="0" /></a>Those were the coke fueled, “greed is good” Eighties,<br />and I am thirty and broke.<br />Ought I to regret my seedtime?<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=007.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/007.jpg" border="0" /></a>I was a fire-breathing man, a misguided believer<br />in calloused hands and their protestant code of ethics.<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/BzwIFe3qUi/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed 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alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/013.jpg" border="0" /></a>a pillared, stern enclosure like<br />those historically built for bakcheia,<br />and through the steel screened portholes<br />saw the once a day Exchanging<br />beyond the sooty entanglements.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=011.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/011.jpg" border="0" /></a>Pacing, I yammered the theories of Agamben with Eyal,<br />Us both jaundice-yellow<br />("awash in our shrunken theory")<br />and as fly-weight economists,<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/6fBax6UH5k/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed 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src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/012.jpg" border="0"/></a>Shaven, muscular, suburban,<br />wearing grey wool blend bespoke suits,<br />they blew their tops and<br />beat him black and blue.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=008.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/008.jpg" border="0"/></a>I was so out of things, I'd never heard<br />of the credit default swap.<br />"Are you a C.O.?" I asked a fellow jailbird.<br />"No," he answered, "I'm a wage labor sucker."<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/0sg_KV53II/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/0sg_KV53II/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/b5DRy08d/will_oldham_horses/"></a></object>He taught me the "hospital tuck,"<br />and pointed out the T-shirted back<br />of the Liquidity Czar,<br />there piling towels on a rack,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=014.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/014.jpg" border="0"/></a>or dawdling off to his little segregated cell full<br />of things forbidden to us common men:<br />a 60 inch screen, a humidor, an Eames lounger,<br />and extended furlows to a day spa;<br />he returns with two cynical toy American flags.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/003.jpg" border="0" /></a>Flabby, bald, filled with avarice,<br />he drifted in a sheepish calm,<br />where no agonizing reappraisal<br />jarred his concentration on the promised pardon<br />hanging like an oasis in his air<br />of lost transactions.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=lowellcopy.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/lowellcopy.jpg" border="0"/></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;color:#666666;"><em>..and finally the REAL Robert Lowell, as there are no analogs or usurpers.</em></span>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-48903180879114439612008-10-06T06:37:00.005-04:002008-10-14T20:01:36.094-04:00Charting A Course Toward An Austere Latitude<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=backmancarBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/backmancarBW.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=backonthebeachdark.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/backonthebeachdark.jpg" border="0" /></a><a 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href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=atimetowatersomethingwell.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/atimetowatersomethingwell.jpg" border="0" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-35411962045895257902008-10-06T06:27:00.004-04:002008-10-14T20:00:04.452-04:00When Devils Will the Blackest Sins Put OnEven as her appetite shall play the god<br />With his weak function. How am I then a villain<br />To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,<br />Directly to his good?<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=_000Itmaybeagudtthing.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_000Itmaybeagudtthing.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=_001toholdpowerbasedonguns.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_001toholdpowerbasedonguns.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><object width="760" height="90"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/de34Iu8H8w/aus=false/"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></param><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/de34Iu8H8w/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"FlashVars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/hEkmtkJB/mastodon_i_am_ahab/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=_002Itisfarbetter.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_002Itisfarbetter.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=_003ifyouwintheheart.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_003ifyouwintheheart.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=_004andkeepitsaffection.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/_004andkeepitsaffection.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-55522623515344920972008-10-06T04:44:00.002-04:002008-10-14T19:59:08.269-04:00A Vast Variety, That'll Grow the Economy<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=palingardener.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/palingardener.jpg" border="0" /></a>You've reared your head and said enough for both of us.Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-81706043573933192722008-10-06T01:27:00.005-04:002008-10-14T19:58:46.994-04:00That Name Uttered Once and Hushed Forever After<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=Hehadalotofexpectations.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Hehadalotofexpectations.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/pYjAfH0eUN/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/pYjAfH0eUN/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/TbiNL3vz/sly_the_family_stone_poet/"></a></object>Yes, strange, darkness best, and the darker the worse, then all well, for the time,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=Pdvd_860.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Pdvd_860.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>but it will come, the time will come, the thing is there, you'll see it,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=Pdvd_817.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Pdvd_817.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>get off me, keep off me, all dark, all still, all over, wiped out-<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=vlcsnap-53981.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/vlcsnap-53981.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><object height="90" width="760" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/pA-zMiUz3B/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/pA-zMiUz3B/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/N9Wp3zAj/sly_the_family_stone_just_like_a_baby/"> </a></object>Yes, perhaps, a shade gone, I suppose, some might say, poor thing, a shade gone,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=beingmoodybeingbadatmath.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/beingmoodybeingbadatmath.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>just a shade, in the head-just a shade, but I doubt it, I doubt it, not really,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view¤t=snapshot20080824183707.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/snapshot20080824183707.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>I'm all right, still all right, do my best, all I can-<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=snapshot20080824183708.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/snapshot20080824183708.jpg" border="0" /></a>Yes, peace, one assumed, all out, all the pain, all as if . . . never been, it will come...-<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=snapshot20080824183709.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/snapshot20080824183709.jpg" border="0" /></a>pardon, no sense in this, oh I know . . .none <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=snapshot20080824183732.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/snapshot20080824183732.jpg" border="0" /></a>the less, one assumed, peace . . . <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=snapshot20080824183733.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/snapshot20080824183733.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/N6u_-uyjj2/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/N6u_-uyjj2/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/BMUPCCVq/sly_the_family_stone_runnin_away/"> </a></object>I mean . . . not merely all over, but as if . . . never been<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/?action=view&current=Ilikebookswithpictures.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Blog%20shots/Ilikebookswithpictures.jpg" border="0" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-23554261717570202162008-09-01T23:55:00.009-04:002008-10-14T19:57:08.457-04:00NECESSITAS NON HABET LEGEM<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=ems154.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/ems154.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/uEcyvLba4r/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/uEcyvLba4r/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/nq9665Yy/la_plus_belle_africaine/"></a></object>"I will not accept the attribution to me the label of historian; it is a deplorable term. I shall not be held accountable for any future manipulation of these comments, this system, or shall it be said, this genealogy of knowledge."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=4post17.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/4post17.jpg" border="0" /></a>"There is no guarantee that in the future these words will not be appropriated by some tyrant, espoused by some demagogue, and warped beyond recognition to justify some horrible campaign; or that they might falsely frame another's visions as dystopic through a willful and malicious mis-reading."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=4post20.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/4post20.jpg" border="0" /></a>"There is no security in the belief that these ideas, these thoughts, will not be manipulated as an anulment to dismiss one's accountability in respect to their dogmatic adherence to ill-formed philosophies and apologetics."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=4post34.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/4post34.jpg" border="0" /></a>"I will not act as the recorder of what may someday not be an illegitimate impression of what should be merely seen in the immediate."<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=4post22.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/4post22.jpg" border="0" /></a>Art can no longer be justified as a superior activity, or even as an activity of compensation or exchange to which one could honorably devote oneself.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=florid07a.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="WIDTH: 760px; HEIGHT: 1036px" height="1129" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/florid07a.jpg" width="760" border="0" /></a><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/5piFDr2C0_/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="FlashVars" value="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/5piFDr2C0_/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent" flashvars="backColor=000000&primaryColor=999999&secondaryColor=4d4d4d&linkColor=666666"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/2Arz9nbn/apologies_to_insect_life/"></a></object>The cause of this deterioration is clearly the emergence of productive forces that necessitate other productive forces that necessitate other production relations ad nauseum until the detritus demands a new practice of life.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=florid07b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/florid07b.jpg" border="0" /></a>In the civil war phase which we currently and perpetually engaged in, and in close connection with the orientation we are discovering for certain superior activities to come, we can consider that all known means of expression are going to converge in a general movement of propaganda which must encompass all the perpetually interacting aspects of social reality.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=snapshot20080827131211.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="WIDTH: 760px; HEIGHT: 460px" height="460" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/snapshot20080827131211.jpg" width="760" border="0" /></a> <center><a href="http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_ingirum.html">Necessity knows no law.</a></center>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-60642469302383189892008-08-18T04:32:00.003-04:002008-08-18T04:50:05.818-04:00If You Show the Fucking Gun, It Damn Well Has To Go Off<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=ax119.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/ax119.jpg" border="0" /></a>The strong wind is gathering the storm-clouds together above the gray plain of the ocean so wide.<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/ktOrmY4ptm/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/ktOrmY4ptm/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/JH9VVBqQ/do_you_know/"></a></object>The storm-finch, the bird that resembles dark lightning, between clouds and ocean, soaring.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=08-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/08-1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Skimming the waves with his wings, shooting up, arrow-like, into the dark clouds on high, the storm-finch is clamoring loudly, shrilly; the clouds can hear the bird's fearless cry. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=nevr20love20a20strangercombing.jpg" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=JUBILEE-35.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/JUBILEE-35.jpg" border="0" /></a>In that cry is the yearning, the thirst for the tempest, and anger's hot might in its wild notes is heard; the keen fire of passion, the faith in sure triumph<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=JUBILEE-42.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/JUBILEE-42.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />—All these the clouds hear in the voice of the bird.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=__________0.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/__________0.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>The seagulls lament with a storm impending; they flitter o'er the waves with a piercing wail; they are ready to hide in the depths of the ocean as their dread of this tempest threatens from on high.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=nevr20love20a20strangercombing.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/nevr20love20a20strangercombing.jpg" border="0" /></a>The cargeese and grebes, too, shriek hoarsely in terror; they mourn and complain when the tempest is near; they know not the joy of life-and-death struggle; the crash of the thunderbolt fills them with fear.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=22-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/22-2.jpg" border="0" /></a>The fat, foolish penguin hides, timid and craven, in nooks of the cliffs, where it finds a safe home; alone, the proud storm-finch soars blindly fearless above the rough ocean, all hoary with foam.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=pictures_portfolio_03.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/pictures_portfolio_03.jpg" border="0" /></a>Still nearer and darker the storm-clouds lower themselves onto the broad ocean; the waves as they beat sing and dance as they lift themselves upward, as if they were longing the thunder to meet.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=ax124.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/ax124.jpg" border="0" /></a>The thunder is crashing, billows are roaring; the depths are foaming with rage. They shriek and they gasp as they strive with the gale.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=yellingtrainstationglassesBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/yellingtrainstationglassesBW.jpg" border="0" /></a>Now the storm-wind clasps fiercely the bevy of waves in his powerful grasp; it hurls them, with all his mad strength, in grim fury, against the precipitous cliffs of the rock.<object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/19xgGYOKNO/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/19xgGYOKNO/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/MAca2PSb/gathered_in_their_masses/"></a></object><br />The emerald masses of water are shattered to spray a fine mist by the force of the shock.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=0095h5g4.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/0095h5g4.jpg" border="0" /></a>The storm-finch, the bird that resembles dark lightning, soaring with cries 'mid the tempest's fierce breath; like an arrow he pierces the clouds; with his pinions dashing the foam from the billows beneath.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=still_30-redo.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/still_30-redo.jpg" border="0" /></a>He darts like a haughty black demon of tempest, in wild exultation that knows no alloy.<br />'Twixt the sea and the sky he vacillates laughing and sobbing. He laughs to the clouds defiantly his sobbing is for valiant joy!<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-1869990.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-1869990.jpg" border="0" /></a>In the wrath of the thunder, the keen, quick-eared demon has long since detected a note of fatigue. He is firm in his faith that the clouds will nary cover a bright sun for aye, though they stretch league on league.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=houdini.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/houdini.jpg" border="0" /></a>The storm-wind is howling, the thunder is roaring; with flame blue and lambent the cloud-masses glow o'er the fathomless ocean; it catches the lightnings, and quenches them deep in its whirlpool below.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=waltersage.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/waltersage.jpg" border="0" /></a>Like serpents of fire in the dark ocean writhing, the lightnings reflected quiver and shake, as into the blackness they vanish forever.<br />The tempest! Now quickly the tempest will break!<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=23.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/23.jpg" border="0" /></a>The storm-finch soars fearless and proud 'mid the lightnings, above the wild waves that the roaring winds fret; and what is the prophet of victory saying?<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=2733821811_89db30a991.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/2733821811_89db30a991.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />"Oh, let the storm burst! Fiercer yet—fiercer yet!"<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=0022-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/0022-1.jpg" border="0" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-62229014523220373842008-08-18T02:30:00.004-04:002008-08-18T04:33:07.412-04:00I Watched the Clucking on the News and Went Looking For My Hatchet<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00002.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00002.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I was sayin let me out of here before I was even born-<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00006.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00006.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">It's such a gamble when you get a face<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00004.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00004.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">It's fascinating to observe what the mirror does,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00008.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00008.jpg" border="0" /></a> ...but when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00007.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00007.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I belong to the blank generation and I can take it or leave it each time.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00009.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00009.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Triangles were falling at the window as the doctor cursed, <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00006.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00006.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">...he was a cartoon long forsaken by the public eye.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00003.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first breath,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00011.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00011.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">...the doctor grabbed my throat and yelled, "God's consolation prize!"<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00001.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00001.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">To hold the TV to my lips, the air so packed with cash then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00005.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00005.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I lose my train of thought, fall into your arms' tracks, and watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-00441-Copy.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/vlcsnap-00441-Copy.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I belong to the blank generation and I can take it or leave it each time.</span>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-35341654051050633562008-08-14T12:01:00.003-04:002008-08-14T13:05:51.411-04:00The Transfiguration of the Common Man/WomanIs it we who are active subjugates of our societies, or is a society's purpose to serve toward our benefit? This question begins where all similar questions begin; in the "state of nature". But has that state ever been agreed upon. The creation of this theoretical past is always forged into the shape of the desired gains of the future.<br /><OBJECT class=BLOG_video_class id=BLOG_video-87e5a40ea4dff782 height=632 width=760 contentId="87e5a40ea4dff782"></OBJECT>This is where the notion of the power to suspend the societal agreements concerning it structure and boundary should be confronted -if not all out demolished. While this discussion has been taken up at great length elsewhere, it is not too simplistic to state: the moment that the societal pact is breached, is the concurrent moment to which all obligation to that societal pact is superseded by natural sovereignty. Here, as in all contractual legal obligations, both parties are only culpable in that both parties or diligent in their portion of the contract. <br />Extra-legal action does not inherently prove validity of power; it negates it.Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-62392258974839995102008-08-14T10:20:00.007-04:002008-08-14T12:01:03.067-04:00The Transfiguration of the Common Idea..In fact history does not belong to us; we belong to it.<br />Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination,<br />we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the form of the immediate:<br />the family, society, culture, and state in which we exist.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='760' height='632' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzjEHxapTyMnMqibjFvddFkLuwlbSWBJKcP_J16jwaUdsLcL9KUWI-4bs6_oDpWUnm6VAT9ZAmkROQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />The self awareness of an the individual is only flickering in the closed circuit of historical life.<br />This is why predjudices (pre-judgments) of the individual, far more than their experiential judgements, constitutes the historical reality of their being.Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-11742783445886966202008-07-24T17:44:00.005-04:002008-07-29T10:43:27.153-04:00...That They Don't Understand<object width="760" height="90"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/k9DDRlJFkz/aus=false/"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/k9DDRlJFkz/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/eYzF7EJW/deanna_varagona_burden_of_freedom/"></a></object><br />And when at length the drear and long time soothed thy fiercer woes,<br />How plaintively thy mournful song upon the still night rose<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=feartwlightzonemlandauBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/feartwlightzonemlandauBW.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I've heard it often as if I dreamed, distant, sweet and lone;<br />The funeral dirge, or so it seemed, of reasons dead and gone.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=snapshot20080612102257.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="WIDTH: 760px; HEIGHT: 417px" height="472" alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/snapshot20080612102257.jpg" width="760" border="0" /></a><br />Air held her breath; trees with the spell seemed sorrowing spectres round,<br />Whose swelling tears as dewdrops fell upon the listening ground.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=blockingface2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/blockingface2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />But that is past, and naught remains that raised us o'er the brutes;<br />Our piercing shrieks and soothing strains are both forever mute.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=suitcaseonbedBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/suitcaseonbedBW.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Now fare thee well! Once, more cause than subject of woe.<br />All mental pangs by time's unkind laws hath lost the power to know.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=bedroomsadnesssittingonfloorboy.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/bedroomsadnesssittingonfloorboy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />O Death! thou awe-inspiring prince that keepst the world in fear,<br />Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence and leave madness lingering here?<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=still_179162.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/still_179162.jpg" border="0" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-80242572260672842392008-07-22T17:52:00.007-04:002008-07-29T11:08:59.676-04:00Manifest Destiny & the Beginners Guide to Surrendering Sovereignty<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=doorwayroomsladderpinkcouch-FutureC.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/doorwayroomsladderpinkcouch-FutureC.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />A hot wind curls the leaves and chases the dogs digging deep into the dry soil.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=leaninglookingawayplasticchairBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/leaninglookingawayplasticchairBW.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />I live in the gut of the bright failure called America.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=armchairgreenroom.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/armchairgreenroom.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />I live in this hell named [fill-in-the-blank].<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=pinkroompictures.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/pinkroompictures.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />It's one hundred and seven today and grasshoppers from outer space are dancing in my brain.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=still_31-redo.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/still_31-redo.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />The air-conditioner is broke so I run a tub of cold water and submerge every half hour.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=nakedperchedonbedbluish.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/nakedperchedonbedbluish.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />There's a wet trail from the bath to the couch and nearby fan.The air is heavy with grain dust.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=beddepressingroom-GreenIsland.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/beddepressingroom-GreenIsland.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />The "wheaties" are up from Oklahoma with their caravan of combines.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=2098844172_731e5f4819_o.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/2098844172_731e5f4819_o.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />I crave winter. I want a blizzard that blinds me to my fellow man.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=debrisandchair.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/debrisandchair.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />These are my dark times.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=09.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/09.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Every other day I grieve for the me that was and every man or woman I see fills me with contempt.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=bedroomstairnginchairBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/bedroomstairnginchairBW.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />These half-wit inbreds love to imagine that nine out of ten "Skins" in our Gomorrahs are hang-around-the-fort welfare sucking addicts.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=destroyedbedemptyroom.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/destroyedbedemptyroom.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Yet every weekend their violence and drunken wretchedness fills this county's jail, so I'm far beyond embarrassment by these fucks that are worse than the boogiemen they prod each other into fearing.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=couchandchairsoutsidewoods-luxora.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/couchandchairsoutsidewoods-luxora.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Varied branches of that inbred, toothless mountain trash in "Deliverance,"settled here and now own<br />the bank and most businesses.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=beingmoodybeingbadatmath.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/beingmoodybeingbadatmath.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />It's undeniably true that these white people in Cowturdville could be hillbillies except for the fact that these are The Plains.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=secretBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/secretBW.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Drive on, rednecks, to the edge of your flat world and fall down to a better hell.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=outdoortreevanseatbenchblue.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/outdoortreevanseatbenchblue.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Every single thing about this town is sadly second-rate and I haven't been laid in more than two years and there's this fat lady with varicose veins who calls me late at night and begs me to come over to her trailer for a drink.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=worriedfacetelevision.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/worriedfacetelevision.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Here, in this Panhandle town, farm kids speed desperately up and down the main drag wearing baseball caps backwards and throwing gang signs they've seen on the tube and their parents, glad they're old and tired, truly believe that those pictures we're now getting from Mars have meaning.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=roomcornerbabyblueportrait-NewOrlea.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/roomcornerbabyblueportrait-NewOrlea.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />As far as I can tell, I'm one of the few people in Cowturdville who's gone to college and I often wish I never had, but Christ on a pogostick . . .<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=chesspieceonheadglassesBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/chesspieceonheadglassesBW.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />I think I'm starting to like it here in this American heartland.[ease in to the cushion of our adjustable apathy.]<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=couchlightbluecurledupboy.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/couchlightbluecurledupboy.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Thunderheads are forming and the sweet-ass rain of forgiveness is in the air.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view¤t=lightchandelier-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/lightchandelier-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-67366231432178351102008-07-14T23:53:00.007-04:002008-07-15T18:14:47.776-04:00You Ain't a Beauty But Hey, You're Alright...We make our meek adjustments,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=_hallwaybacklighted.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/_hallwaybacklighted.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/XnUSAL_3hE/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/XnUSAL_3hE/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/AM-DaTj4/paul_baribeau_ginger_alford_atlantic_city/"> </a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=_hallwayfearles.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/_hallwayfearles.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/f2RcVLtSwy/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/f2RcVLtSwy/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/eg1L_kmh/jesse_malin_hungry_heart/"> </a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=_hallwaybackBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/_hallwaybackBW.jpg" border="0" /></a>contented with such random consolations <a 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src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/capture62.jpg" border="0" /></a>The game enforces smirks; but we have seen the moon in lonely alleys,<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=cap1392fh.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/cap1392fh.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/jYKG-55H-m/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/jYKG-55H-m/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/uBUrytmw/paul_baribeau_ginger_alford_thunder_road/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=zz-hallwayhospital.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/zz-hallwayhospital.jpg" border="0" /></a>making a grail of laughter of an empty ash can,<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=hallwaybigfish.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/hallwaybigfish.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/cFQsWR8deX/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/cFQsWR8deX/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/7DW4WEVx/son_volt_open_all_night/"></a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=hallwaypoltergeist.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/hallwaypoltergeist.jpg" border="0" /></a>and through all sound of gaiety and quest; <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=hallwayradiator.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/hallwayradiator.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/wrnz87SDbX/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/wrnz87SDbX/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/Y6UFR6QQ/dar_williams_highway_patroman/"> </a></object><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=hallwaybartonfink.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/hallwaybartonfink.jpg" border="0" /></a>have heard a kitten in the wilderness.<a 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/><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/WReBu2Z4H4/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="80" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/BMD-30kC/pete_yorn_new_york_city_serenade/"></a></object>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-73389990629888638562008-07-13T03:37:00.005-04:002008-08-14T10:19:51.067-04:00You Were Beautiful; Yet So Many Other Things Were As Well.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=babyonthetable.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/babyonthetable.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I was born and this was a fact that I never wanted to be known.<br /><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/c9eXP_VJB5/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/c9eXP_VJB5/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/7Raxv3xV/lightning_bolt_ride_the_skies/"></a></object><br />I have spent the better part of my existence trying to sweep the evidence of my being under the carpet.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=eyemaskonlyBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/eyemaskonlyBW.jpg" border="0" /></a> This would somehow provide for me a life that was mine, genuinely and independent of the historic fate of the punctually supplicant and the indecisive.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=backgodfrey.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/backgodfrey.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Can you imagine what it was like to be one of them, to breathe heavy like them, to talk with the complex emptiness like them, to live life only to protect the right of denying inevitability.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=_relaxwithatallboy.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/_relaxwithatallboy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I knew from a very early age that if there were ever any possibility of escaping the collective fate of this cabal of moralists I would necessarily be denying the inevitable as well.<br /><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/DbGegssD3y/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/DbGegssD3y/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/gT6TL0Lr/japanther_youre_not_the_boss_of_me/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=__fuckyouall.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/__fuckyouall.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I left numerous times, and without ever returning home, I would escape again; always fleeing that lilting, minacious, thread. These are what have come to be known as my hidden years.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=markingcalender.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/markingcalender.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />As the quote goes, <a href="http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/lichtenberg.html">“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”</a><br />Perhaps these are still the hidden years.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=aaaaaaaaamakeitstoooop.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/aaaaaaaaamakeitstoooop.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />While holding this ignominious pose I have seen and I have learned and I am beginning to think there is no escaping history. My attempts to remain obscure have not served me well.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=ritualofthehallway.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/ritualofthehallway.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />And how are your teeth today?<br />Can you afford to fix them?<br /><a href="http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/002984.html">How high is your rent?</a><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=oldladyhorse.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/oldladyhorse.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The people with beautiful teeth are not on the streets. They are seen everywhere. The neither hide nor obfuscate themselves. Nothing is hidden, and their inevitability is halted, paused in the hectic circling of cosmetic jubilance…circling like vultures.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=facegrittingteethwomansexy.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/facegrittingteethwomansexy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Can we really trust shellaced hair-dos; public-square, heavily coded, slickslime vernacular; or those gleaming cosmetic veneers to represent us? What are the clandestine proposals that they have in store for us?<br /><br />Q: <a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tor/649999147.html">What will we do about this dilemma?</a><br />A: Not a god damn thing.<br /><br />Do we ever?<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=maskinthemirrorBW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/maskinthemirrorBW.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Isn't the very nature of the veneer to hide the rotted truth? Are we so arrogant as to challenge Nature?<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=___gh87.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/___gh87.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />There are commercials promising us the ease to which we can give them our gold. There are programs on throughout the night teaching us how to become wealthy by picking the remaining meat off the bones of the foreclosed; the bones of our neighbors and friends.<br /><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/eifTaLvTOa/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/eifTaLvTOa/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/QeZ8pwd6/the_nation_of_ulysses_love_is_a_bull_market/"></a></object><br />I have learned that this culture is not the stuff of civics classes. Do you know what the message of Western Civilization is? It is that we are alone.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=bluewaitingrom.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/bluewaitingrom.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The irony of being collectively alone, but that we are willing to change everything about ourselves, willing to consume anything presented to us in the hopes of abating that alienation, if only for a instance.<br />Am I alone tonight?<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=boxingsq55BW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/boxingsq55BW.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I don't think so. Blanchot said that this proposition is not possible.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=boxingsq56BW.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/boxingsq56BW.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Am I the only one with bleeding gums tonight?<br />Am I the only one a hangnail? <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=thiscosthowmuch.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/thiscosthowmuch.jpg" border="0" /></a> Am I the only one with greasy skin? Am I alone in my ripe odor? It is only me that feels offended by my own self?<br />No, in these I am not alone.<br /><object height="90" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/vB0uyDkQnZ/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/vB0uyDkQnZ/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/gRMMbIUv/rahsaan_roland_kirk_volunteered_slavery/"></a></object><br />Is it merely these aspects of misery and discomfort the manner in which we share our experience of being with others?<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=152-1976-400.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/152-1976-400.jpg" border="0" /></a>Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861962.post-46029755942394301492008-06-22T19:39:00.002-04:002008-06-22T22:57:00.544-04:00You Always Keep Repeating.You are alone and you are easy.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=cap113.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/cap113.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />You see the history of your life and lineage in your mitochondrial genes, cells, confirming what we suspected: bottleneck, enlargement, plague,vulcanologists from everywhere, studying the site, thinking aren't you a cute disease. <a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=DVD_036.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/DVD_036.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/LeIc6v-l9a/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/LeIc6v-l9a/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/1_zQ6Tx-/the_who_let_my_love_open_the_door_original/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=DVD_6015-90.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/DVD_6015-90.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The music is so loud you blink every time there is a drum. Yes, best we heirloom quietly, for we are powerful weak. Overcoat, spread your wings.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=Heather0055291867_4.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/Heather0055291867_4.jpg" border="0" /></a><object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/1P0LFsbkij/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/1P0LFsbkij/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/pVB_aKyl/m_ward_let_my_love_open_the_door_mward/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=code13vv4.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/code13vv4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Almost a legend, knots laced with passed-over glass, daddies in pastel suits next to the only surviving witness from a life best spent in big years, dreaming of sliding on your belly.<a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=lap220zx.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/lap220zx.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Tough night, wet ink, loose seams. There is plenty of time for nothing and you should volunteer for it. Time allotted is never enough.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=grad54.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/grad54.jpg" border="0" /></a> <object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/jLTGsg9QHL/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/jLTGsg9QHL/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/t9Ywc3s0/pete_townshend_let_my_love_open_the_door_acoustic/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=telephonebeard.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/telephonebeard.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Roll over and tell me you're a sofa, backboned by an old quilt, tied to the notion of design, of pattern, of words so staccato they bang like rats atop the roofs of government embassies, that is, without regard for what those below will try to assume you are: harmless and preoccupied, known through your gestures to be true.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=telephoehairvalleyofdolls.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/telephoehairvalleyofdolls.jpg" border="0" /></a> <object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/iEXlT-UQT9/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/iEXlT-UQT9/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/JRPWb4fv/sondre_lerche_let_my_love_open_the_door_sondre_lerche/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=capture4pc9.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/capture4pc9.jpg" border="0" /></a> The ropey cuisine of another planet awaits you tonight, something freeze-dried and wet just for you, and molded into whatever you want: lids and caps, some beans or rice, coelacanth, but the remains will leave their fossils on your plate.<br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=p39dl.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/p39dl.jpg" border="0" /></a> <object height="80" width="760"><param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/BwEVlOu8sq/aus=false/"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/BwEVlOu8sq/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="760" height="90" wmode="transparent"></embed><a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/-FPckLJ/music/sDjbzgVe/rilo_kiley_let_my_love_open_the_door_rilo_kiley/"></a></object><br /><a href="http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/?action=view&current=ponderosahowmayihelpyou.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/caspere/ponderosahowmayihelpyou.jpg" border="0" /></a> Memory is like this,patterns already laid out across neurons and blisters,each occasion which follows will fit into that shape,even sans arms or eyelashes,rendered sharp-tongued with bad desire.Henry Bemishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15465395011790332132noreply@blogger.com0