Poem: The glass, half empty

By Jack Brummet 

1

Blue sparks arc in the air
emitting a trail of ozone

2
The man in the moon
Is a sociopath

3
Mother Earth
Had a sex change

4
Every flower is finished

5
The rising water
Is up to your knees.
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Poem: In The Blue Mosque In Istanbul

By Jack Brummet [poem and digital painting]

It's
So
Still
In
The
Blue
Mosque
You
Can
Hear
A
Fly
Expire.

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The photos of Alexey Titarenko

By Jack Brummet

I have really been enjoying the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko's work. Check it out: http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/

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Remove the Confederate Memorial? Is Mt. Rushmore next?

By Jack Brummet, Public Art Ed.

The largest relief carving  in the world is in Georgia.  But an Atlanta man (and a lot of other people) wants the Confederate Memorial relief on Stone Mountain removed.  "It's almost like a black eye or an embarrassing smudge on our culture," McCartney Forde told 11Alive News on Monday.  The 600 foot wide carving depicts Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson. The monument, started in 1923 was completed in 1972.

People object to the monument because two of the people depicted were slave-owners.

Interestingly enough, that's also true of Mount Rushmore. . .

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Two Tolkien songs from Lord of the Rings by Del Brummet

By Del Brummet 

Two songs based on Tolkien poems from Lord of the rings. . .

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Poem: Optimism

By Jack Brummet

In our tarpaper shacks,

We build crystal dream palaces
To colonize
When our ships come in.

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Poem: Scarred for life

By Jack Brummet

It could be watching your family
Diced up in slow-motion

By a sick biscuit with a machete,
Or the day your brother let you down.

It might be when you were wrongfully accused,
Whether they sorted it out or not.

Maybe you discovered your wife sleeping
With her yoga teacher,

Or remember the night your parents
Let you cry yourself to sleep.

It could be the motorcycle accident,
Or the time you saw your Uncle naked.

Under a bad moon,
It can all leave you scarred for life.
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Poem: The Jitters

by Jack Brummet

1
We almost always feel less
Safe than we actually are.

2
We engage in a game of dodge ball,
Where we can’t see the ball,

But bob and weave

Through objective hazards and shoals

Over which we have no control―
And only a fraction of which you ever see.
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Which Seattle Police will show up at May Day tomorrow?

By Mona Goldwater, Seattle Metro Ed.

Which Seattle Police will show up at May Day tomorrow?  Will it be the White Hats or the Dark Hats?  In theory we will see balanced, proportional responses to any trouble from the crowd, or the "anarchists."

The SPD should be ready...they've been training for this for five weeks.  And thinking about it for a year, after their flubbed responses last time around.

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Poem: Mission Statement, 2

By Jack Brummet

You don't need to see
A discounted cash flow analysis.

You only need to know
If the right people are in your pocket,

And, if not, whom should be bought off,
Scared off, or bumped off?

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Poem: No Exit

By Jack Brummet

Once you grab a tiger by the tail,
You can never let it go.
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Poem: Who Am I Today?

By Jack Brummet

I'm no longer the Jack

I was in 2006. Each cell

Is replaced every seven years--
My brain rewires itself

And the new circuits
Sing in a synaptic chorus line.

I don't know if I will wake up
As The Fuhrer,

Bishop Tutu,
Or something in between.
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