i want something precious
and small, to hold in my hand
against this feeling of falling

the last scatterings of fireworks
always the most beautiful

was it ever otherwise
desiring
sadly

the tent caterpillars
among road-dusty boughs

every morning
ants on the wooden fencepost
forgotten as fast as seen

West Nile in our
abandoned swimming pools

i write
like i had the indulgence
of readers who trusted

a road so scarred
it might as well not be there

Krates threw
away his cup i cannot
even quit coffee

the roads torn up
ev'ry leg of my routine



(via antiwar.com)


Audio Gore on Kucinich.

The chief sacrifice we resist--is having to meet our neighbors.


The Garden of the Debt-Suicides.


"Locavore" in Lojban could be made from CECMU (community) & CIDJA (food): e. g. cec5 se 3dja.


The Audacity of Depression.


"In fact if we were to try and find on this planet a place to hold the Olympic Games where the government of that place has not been responsible for human rights violations (in one way or the other), then I suspect that we would be left with very few options..." [4/01/08] (via Beyond the Beyond)