Tangipahoa

July 8, 2007

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Bone grit
explodes into
a thousand ripples,

welcoming home
her borrowed
physicality.

painting by Nancy Stutes

CNNxiety

June 6, 2007

anxious images
over and over again …
entertainment

pro-life
pro-death penalty

 

Shame on NBC

April 19, 2007

Imagine the pain of those families witnessing the murderous prelude to their loved ones’ death. Everywhere they turn is the last face their child saw.

Oh sure, Mr. NBC will say the “public has a right to know”. It would be “censoring” if they chose not to broadcast Cho Seung-Hui’s video and instead handed it immediately over to the police.

Bogus. Every day NBC “censors” out a hundred newsworthy stories because they are not sensational or sexy enough. NBC’s decision to broadcast the video is further evidence that network “news” is primarily gratuitous entertainment.

Whats next? Funniest Psycho Killer Home Videos?

perhaps 4 (rev)

March 10, 2007

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we are spiritual guests
on this earth
and should not join in
the killing cycle.

Little Debbie of Death

February 14, 2007

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be my valentine
(with eight twin-wrapped cakes
of corn syrup
processed sugar
processed flour
interesterified palm oil
partially hydrogenated
cottonseed oil
TBHQ
diglycerides
propylene glycol
monostearate
polysorbate 60
red 40
and
twenty three other ingredients –
all for $1.05 )

I will love you forever
(with 3 grams of
artery clogging
surgery producing
medicine funding
saturated fat
per tiny tasteless cake)

you are my sweetheart
(with 26 grams
of system shocking
limb losing
rehab needing
insulin breeding
heart pumping sugar
per two cake “serving”)

when I am only bones

February 10, 2007

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when I can no longer recall
I will tell stories

when I am only bones
I will be your fence

photo source:

when death comes

February 1, 2007

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when death comes

the hand of life
reaches down

to lift up the soul
like a kitten

and gently
place it elsewhere

painting by:Joshua Reynolds

dying for Christmas

January 20, 2007

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The tree we cut
and carried
into our home

the one
we shackled
trimmed
sang to
and toasted

(rip a suckling child
from its mother)

(put makeup on a statue)

(be happy at a rape)

now lies on
its side

alone

with her hooks
and tinsel
riffling in the wind


photo by: Matthew Drumright

perhaps (eight)

January 20, 2007

birth is the cutting
of a tree
from its roots –

and this life,
a momentary death