Interesting to see this new form of writing coming from the Lightning. I welcome it.
One line interests me more than others because from my perspective I dont’ feel conned and I believe I have accepted my death. If it is indeed a con-game it is one that is working for me for more than a few minutes.
I feel total surrender is the only way to find peace. I think that is what we are seeing on a large scale now. After the courts passed the recent ruling on finance reform: Citizens United v. FEC. Now corporations are able to legally pump billions of dollars into elections. Now foreign interests can advertise for their interests. Do we think our personal vote counts any longer? I would love to see the polling on that question.
The last four lines of this poem are truly beautiful.
this is the most powerful and affirming thing i’ve read in a while. the way it comes together, from its structure and appearance on the page, to its insights, is beautiful.
This post conveys a place that I think is common between us, the lines that most interest me however are the first ones. While I understand and relate to Akbar’s sense of being bound by the knowledge we have partaken of, I think what is important is the transformation of the disdain and despair that the human condition evokes in us to a realization that we aren’t actually defined by or indentured participants in what has become of our planet.
Once you know, you can never go back. Unknowing is not an option. The behavior of our government in the middle east and now Haiti, and the wrecking of any shred of constitutional hope that we may have been clinging to by the Supreme Court last week, for me, makes it ever easier to distinguish between what we are and what we have been told to be.
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globatron
January 23, 2010Interesting to see this new form of writing coming from the Lightning. I welcome it.
One line interests me more than others because from my perspective I dont’ feel conned and I believe I have accepted my death. If it is indeed a con-game it is one that is working for me for more than a few minutes.
I feel total surrender is the only way to find peace. I think that is what we are seeing on a large scale now. After the courts passed the recent ruling on finance reform: Citizens United v. FEC. Now corporations are able to legally pump billions of dollars into elections. Now foreign interests can advertise for their interests. Do we think our personal vote counts any longer? I would love to see the polling on that question.
The last four lines of this poem are truly beautiful.
Logocentric
January 23, 2010this is the most powerful and affirming thing i’ve read in a while. the way it comes together, from its structure and appearance on the page, to its insights, is beautiful.
crystl37
January 24, 2010This post conveys a place that I think is common between us, the lines that most interest me however are the first ones. While I understand and relate to Akbar’s sense of being bound by the knowledge we have partaken of, I think what is important is the transformation of the disdain and despair that the human condition evokes in us to a realization that we aren’t actually defined by or indentured participants in what has become of our planet.
Once you know, you can never go back. Unknowing is not an option. The behavior of our government in the middle east and now Haiti, and the wrecking of any shred of constitutional hope that we may have been clinging to by the Supreme Court last week, for me, makes it ever easier to distinguish between what we are and what we have been told to be.
Logocentric
January 24, 2010The delusions are the burden, the curiosity that kills
And we are saved by our humanity, by our weaknesses
it just gets better with each reading.