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The swine who rule us claim they have the right To take our lives and use them at their need; To force us for invested funds to fight, To sacrifice us to imperial greed: In name of nationality to bleed. - Robert W Service

Lovely review of my translation of Mathias Énard's Perfecting the Shot here: www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

Why Hegseth wanted Ike’s globe

Wonderful review of my translation of Céline's LONDON by Ramtin Ebrahimi: worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

Imagine if there were e-books you buy from Amazon(tm) that you weren't allow to delete.

More mediocre food, worse traffic and just one more reason not to go down to Albany: www.timesunion.com/business/art...

Getting into some top notch literature tonight. The great Walt Kelly.

from archy in washington by Don Marquis

The Republican Party of Florida is threatening television stations with criminal prosecution if they run or report on a scathing campaign ad addressing the Hope Florida scandal and a grand jury's finding. Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/article... rmb.reuters.com/rmd/rss/item...

@nytimes.com If it's not reported, it didn't happen. Top news stories today @nytimes.com e-edition: 3 stories on France, and 2 about OJ Simpson Nothing about gatherings yesterday around the country to get out the vote. Good work!

More frost coming tonight. Dug up the last of my sweet potatoes today.

This takes a newspaper notice & transforms it into a meditation on slavery. The unashamed business like tone, the monetisation of human beings, is deeply disturbing The rendering of this archival document, itself, become an indictment of Elizabeth Young #poetry #poemoftheday #blackhistorymonth

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." Rod Serling: "The Monsters are Due on Maple St."

RIP Jim Knipfel, who wrote a lovely review of my translation of Céline's War www.truthdig.com/articles/jim...

I guess I wish the "press" hadn't mentioned the name of the man who killed the school shooter. Now everybody - pro-gun nuts, and anti-gun nuts - will be looking him up, trying to invade his privacy and bolster their little political positions.

And call out the border guard. The kingdom is crumbling. The king is in the counting house, Laughing and stumbling. His armies are extended, Way beyond the shore. As he sends our lovely boys to die In a foreign jungle war. "The Great American Eagle Tragedy" - Earth Opera, 1969

If you live in Saratoga County, NY (as I do), and if you are not registered to vote, and want to vote, October 24th is the last day you can register. For more information: www.saratogacountyny.gov/departments/...

Joined my colleagues in New York to hear from voting rights experts on the Trump administration's attempts to interfere with our elections. They made clear that our democracy is not a spectator sport. We all play a role in keeping our elections free and fair for every citizen.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Cuttyhunk by Arthur Cleveland Hall https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79791

Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

I know I'm getting old. Websites for the Fugs, and Malvina Reynolds no longer seem to be online. History disappears.

Reading Robert Kelly 2

45⁰F and drizzle while planting garlic today, but the rain got too heavy to finish. 200 planted, and about 300 to go.

I get emails from the NYTimes summing up the big headlines: "Hurricane Isaias made landfall last night as a Category 2 storm, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. We’ve got details on that below, but we’re starting with a look at fall movie season."

I'm trying to figure this out. I pay taxes. We all pay taxes. The state collects my money, and then makes a show of giving some of it back to SOME of us. AND the state goes further into debt in doing it. Why did they take our money in the first place?

If I worked for me, I'd fire myself. On the other hand, I'd never work for a guy like me.

I think we're dealing here with religious fanatics… As a friend of mine once said, "I prefer criminals to idiots. Because criminals take a rest every once in a while… But idiots, never!" - Dario Fo "The Pope and the Witch" translated Ed Emery

"The thing to avoid is not a foolish death. It is a foolish life." - Charles Bowden in "Jericho"

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Those who protested Have been beaten to death But those who didn’t defend themselves Have also been beaten to death. - Bertolt Brecht - the german war primer complex from the Beginning of War: Kuhn and Constantine, translators

Sacrificing my own back to not drop the baby was one of the scariest moments of my political career, but I never stopped fighting.

When local police and private vendors promise community control over surveillance, they obscure a broader agenda. www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

In war many things will increase. These things will get bigger The possessions of the haves And the misery of the have-nots The speeches of the Führer And the silence of his followers. - Bertolt Brecht - the german war primer complex from the Beginning of War: Kuhn and Constantine, translators

And why would they give you 5 if they could take 10?

Firstly, I love the title of this poem Secondly, followers know I love a sonnet. This subverts the traditional sonnet, written to a single lover, to a lament to the many – and though forgotten the emotional imprint of their kisses remain ‘the rain is full of ghosts tonight’ #poetry #poemoftheday

Robert Kelly turns 91 tomorrow! (Flowers from poet & former student Tom Meyer)

Franklin Pierce Adams from "Overset"