Uselessness.. me.

To the right, the sky, to the left, the sea.
And before your eyes, the grass and its flowers.
A cloud, the road, follows its vertical way
Parallel to the plumb line of the horizon,
Parallel to the rider.
The horse races towards its imminent fall
And the other climbs interminably.
How simple and strange everything is.
Lying on my left side
I take no interest in the landscape
And I think only of things that are very vague,
Very vague and very pleasant,
Like the tired look you walk around with
Through this beautiful summer afternoon
To the right, to the left,
Here, there,
In the delirium of uselessness.

Lying Down by Robert Desnos

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Song

The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human
looks out of the heart
burning with purity
for the burden of life
is love,

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:

the weight is too heavy

must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.

Song by Allen Ginsberg, San Jose 1954

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A mis ojos el mundo

Cerré el libro que hablaba
de esencias, de existencias, de sustancias,
de accidentes y modos,
de causas y efectos,
de materia y de forma,
de conceptos e ideas,
de nóumeros, fenómenos,
cosas en sí y en otras, opiniones,
hipótesis, teorías...
Cerré el libro y abrióse
a mis ojos el mundo.
Transpuesto había el sol ya la colina;
en el cielo esmaltábanse los álamos
y nacían entre ellos las estrellas;
la luna enjalmaba el firmamento,
cuyo fulgor difuso
en las aguas del río se bañaba.
Y mirando a la luna, a la colina,
las estrellas, los álamos,
el río y el fulgor del firmamento
sentí la gran mentira
de esencias, de existencias, de sustancias,
de accidentes y modos,
de causas y de efectos,
de materia y de forma,
de conceptos e ideas,
de nóumenos, fenómenos,
cosas en sí y en otras, opiniones,
hipótesis, teorías;
esto es, palabras.

Miguel de Unamuno (Rimas de dentro, 1923)

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talisman

it is written
the act of writing is
holy words are
sacred and your breath
brings out the
god in them
i write these words
quickly repeat them
softly to myself
this talisman for you
fold this prayer
around your neck fortify
your back with these
whispers
may you walk ever
loved and in love
know the sun
for warmth the moon
for direction
may these words always
remind you your breath
is sacred words
bring out the god
in you

talisman by Suheir Hammad

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Temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be 'synchronistic', the events must be related to one another temporally, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small.

The idea of synchronicity is that the conceptual relationship of minds, defined by the relationship between ideas, is intricately structured in its own logical way and gives rise to relationships which have nothing to do with causal relationships in which a cause precedes an effect. Instead, causal relationships are understood as simultaneous — that is, the cause and effect occur at the same time.

Synchronous events reveal an underlying pattern, a conceptual framework which encompasses, but is larger than, any of the systems which display the synchronicity. The suggestion of a larger framework is essential in order to satisfy the definition of synchronicity as originally developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.

Jung coined the word to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously described synchronicity as an "'acausal connecting principle'" (i.e., a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by conventional, efficient causality), "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism".

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1º de Maio

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War economy...

"Nearly every industry in today's economy is somehow connected to the military industrial complex.

Corporations manufacture weapons for profit. Private contractors provide the military with infrastructure and logistics support. Universities conduct military-related research. These are but a few examples of the beneficiaries of our "permanent war economy."

Corporations contribute millions of dollars to political campaigns with the hope that their investments will yield profitable returns in the form of military contracts - and they do. Lockheed, General Dynamics and other weapons-makers derive most of their income from military-related production, while Halliburton and Blackwater receive billions to support military operations around the world. Meanwhile, for Chevron, Exxon-Mobil and other corporations, war has meant record profits and an opportunity to take control of Irak oil as they continue to capitalize on the USA addiction that also fuels the climate crisis.

It's time to bite the bullet and stand up to the war profiteers that are undermining our democracy, bankrupting our economy, ruining our environment, and destroying thousands of lives."

INFO: http://www.bitethebullet.us/

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