JollyJane
11-14-2006, 10:01 PM
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Subject: Re: FL:Ole! to peace and justice
From: "eliz barger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006
Ole!
the crowd cries
as the red cape of the
toreador
flashes to draw
the brave bull
dumb to the
blood on sawdust
and ears to the
prettiest woman there.
And the bull breeder
proudly counts his
blood money
in a tradition of
ceremonial violence
and death
like all blood ceremonies,
just more orderly
and less profitable
than the constant war
on whatever works for
profit and power
to drive the dumb
bulls of mass hysteria
called patriotism.
And the blood
in the arena
is ours.
Will
the prettiest woman
refuse the bloody ears?
Will the profiteers
stop selling murder?
All the arenas
with national names,
lost in the dark press floors:
Oaxaca, East Timor
Iraq,
Afghanistan, Chesnia
Darfur
are flowing with blood
that fattens the faces
of the pundits
greasing the slide
of TV fencing
in the stockyard of lies,
because the truth is
not pretty,
where the children
are being trained
to slaughter friends
as they stand on
the stinking offal of profits
buying the power
to fill arenas with
our blood.
love,Eliz 11-13-06
IMPEACH THEM ALL
"Shouldn't we be as serious about making peace as some people are about making
war?" Diane Wilson www.codepinkalert.org
from the Talmud:
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.
Walk humbly now.
Do justly now.
Love mercy now.
You are not expected to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon
it.
Check out www.plenty.org and www.peaceroots.org
"Life is Art. Love is the answer." love,Eliz
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Subject: Re: FL:Ole! to peace and justice
From: "eliz barger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006
Ole!
the crowd cries
as the red cape of the
toreador
flashes to draw
the brave bull
dumb to the
blood on sawdust
and ears to the
prettiest woman there.
And the bull breeder
proudly counts his
blood money
in a tradition of
ceremonial violence
and death
like all blood ceremonies,
just more orderly
and less profitable
than the constant war
on whatever works for
profit and power
to drive the dumb
bulls of mass hysteria
called patriotism.
And the blood
in the arena
is ours.
Will
the prettiest woman
refuse the bloody ears?
Will the profiteers
stop selling murder?
All the arenas
with national names,
lost in the dark press floors:
Oaxaca, East Timor
Iraq,
Afghanistan, Chesnia
Darfur
are flowing with blood
that fattens the faces
of the pundits
greasing the slide
of TV fencing
in the stockyard of lies,
because the truth is
not pretty,
where the children
are being trained
to slaughter friends
as they stand on
the stinking offal of profits
buying the power
to fill arenas with
our blood.
love,Eliz 11-13-06
IMPEACH THEM ALL
"Shouldn't we be as serious about making peace as some people are about making
war?" Diane Wilson www.codepinkalert.org
from the Talmud:
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief.
Walk humbly now.
Do justly now.
Love mercy now.
You are not expected to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon
it.
Check out www.plenty.org and www.peaceroots.org
"Life is Art. Love is the answer." love,Eliz
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