Cherish Ghost
An apparition where I stood a figure of you or a projection saintly alive satanly dead exposed tongue shadows form then drift you held me once but now you flow through me.
Kahlil Gibran
Human kinds cling to earthly things, but I seek ever to embrace the torch of love so it will purify me by its fire and sear humanity from my heart. Substantial things deaden a man without suffering; love awakens him with enlivening pain.
Little Adonis
What has happened to little Adonis? Did he find his love and this silenced his mournful pleas? Did he move on because this was not the hot spot he thought it might be? Or did he perish in the offal of our dusty out of the way places of our life? I will stand firm that he found a lady love and left with her to start a new life. To raise 2000 children on a bed of manure and he chirps now mostly to frighten those who might woo his beloved. That is what I choose to believe.
Redneck love
I know that redneck’s are capable of love. I’ve seen them from time to time get soppy about their dog (dawg) or their fishing pole (fishinpo’) or their wife (ol’lady). They tear up to the star-spangled banner and want to hook up with Taylor Swift. This is definitely a type of love.
I feel bad that they feel like they are the new minority. Somehow these lower and lower middle class and even middle class white guys think that the problem is that they are white. Really the problem is that they are lower and middle class. The upper class has successfully shifted the focus from themselves to a “stranger” who is from a different place or has a different color. Rich people would prefer a race war to a class war.
I wish that we could love these self-proclaimed rednecks back to a place of realizing that it’s another white man who is keeping him from being successful.
There. I blogged something.
