Monthly Archives June 2010

LA Zoo

Afternoon at the LA Zoo. Animals the better dressers.

Malevich + Brecht

Swim in the lake, for pleasure. The water
Which could drown you
Buoys you up.
Swimming you cleave it, behind you
It comes together again.

Brecht

FINLAND 1940
I
We are now refugees in
Finland.
My little daughter
Returns home in the evening complaining that no child
Will play with her. She is a German, and comes
From a nation of gangsters.
When I exchange loud words during a discussion
I am told to be quiet. The people here do not like
Loud words from someone
Who comes from a nation of [...]

Stevens

Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.

WC

Pound

And he said they used to cheer Verdi,
In Rome, after the opera,
And the guards couldn’t stop them,
And that was an anagram for Vittorio
Emanuele Re D’ Italia,
And the guards couldn’t stop them.
Old men with beautiful manners,
Sitting in the Row of a morning;
Walking on the Chelsea Embankment.

All-Over

Late

Asking for it

Mark Steel at The Independent on the logic of blaming the victims of the raid on the aid flotilla:
It’s time the Israeli government’s PR team made the most of its talents, and became available for hire. Then whenever a nutcase marched into a shopping mall in somewhere like Wisconsin and gunned down a selection of [...]