POMES

They're actually a major problem,
poems are. They're a major pain.

Empathy, or, Theatre of the Absurd

But I don't want to discourage
anyone from attempting them.

Don't want to encourage anyone
either.

It can be rewarding. You just have
to decide if the sacrifice is worth it.

I don't know if anyone ever
consciously sits down to write a
poem. They just come. Of
course, some come more easily
than others, get jotted down in
a fever and are done or very
near done.

For example, how Bob Dylan wrote
songs in the sixties, especially in
the earlier years.

One can almost see how one would
jump to the conclusion that it is
evidence of some divine-super-
natural-being-energy-power.
It is a trap into which one can almost
hardly blame one for falling.

Not that it isn't evidence of
divine-supernatural-being-energy-
power, just not in the same sense.

Oftentimes they don't come down in
one go, for instance. You have to
wrestle with them awhile. Some
never make it.

At least generally with time you can
begin to tell which ones are worth
fighting for and which ones are best
let go.

Tuesday

The Problem with Capitalism - Take Two

Capitalism as practiced is totalitarianism, no less so than Soviet Communism was, or Fascist/Nazi Germany.

Those who, leading up and into WWII, described Germany as a later version of Britain were right.

Well, actually, they were left -- politically.

But those who aligned themselves with Communism made a misstep. They failed to perceive the fascistic essence of Soviet Communism.

So it was choosing one fascistic order over another.

And just as Nazi Germany was a manner of late capitalism, or later capitalism than Britain was, Western capitalism today descends in its late capitalistic form from Soviet Communism. Like Germany and Russia, Britain, the U.S. and Canada are totalitarian states, run by the moneyed Cabals introduced in "The Problem with Capitalism."

It is the Right masquerading as the Left; the Left as the Right.

Sunday

Plant at Sundown

Cadillac Hatchback
(Some people think it's a Mazda, and it is.)

Contents, trunk (boot), May 23, 2007

On Writing Poetry

"This may be an
unanswerable question.
When you've had it in
your mind to write a poem,
how do you go about it?
Do you start with an
idea, an image, a word?
Do you let it write itself?
Do you consciously work at form?"

It's not an unanswerable question, but it's a big question, can't be dispensed with by a flippant response.