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PeaceLuis's comment: "Self-Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man" evolving as Exhibitionist wearing only a guitar Stay in Bed & Grow Hair Hair P.E.A.C.E.
I know PeaceLuis. We're not best friends or anything, but I know him well enough to know that he has made a live-long commitment to peace.
I met him among a group of activists who stand vigil for peace and against active warfare in the Middle East. When you're just standing around holding a sign for an hour at a time, you have a chance to get to know one another. PeaceLuis is a Peace Corp alumni; he must have been one of the first.
He is an artist who does a lot of performance art. Recently he's taken to producing YouTube videos. I'm a subscriber. This is his latest one; at this moment it has 36 views. I think it is a bit of a take off (ha ha) on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in stunt.
Peace Luis puts it out there for peace. What am I doing for peace?
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Saturday
Oh the memories! (Commit Them)
Rice and Gates Make Case for More Troops in Iraq
by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, January 11, 2007 • President Bush's secretaries of State and Defense spent their days defending his new plan in Iraq, first at a White House news conference and then on Capitol Hill. Secretaries Rice and Gates found only minimal support for a greater troop commitment in Congress. (More...)
The mouth of the desert stretches for miles
With mountains for teeth; men have their days taken
Under the searing sky’s furnace while others
Come seeking their death’s scent at night
Scouring the archfiend waste and carrying greetings
That blindly quake end to end with pale-hatred.
Commit them anon, rush them forward
And we’ll only suffer the graveness of more death,
More tumbledown hope under the searing sky.
Do not provoke this flesh-charred failure
Into our dear children’s breath, our ache-filled bones,
Like the noiseless chatter of death without end.
Copyright © 2007 mrp / thepoetryman
by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, January 11, 2007 • President Bush's secretaries of State and Defense spent their days defending his new plan in Iraq, first at a White House news conference and then on Capitol Hill. Secretaries Rice and Gates found only minimal support for a greater troop commitment in Congress. (More...)
The mouth of the desert stretches for miles
With mountains for teeth; men have their days taken
Under the searing sky’s furnace while others
Come seeking their death’s scent at night
Scouring the archfiend waste and carrying greetings
That blindly quake end to end with pale-hatred.
Commit them anon, rush them forward
And we’ll only suffer the graveness of more death,
More tumbledown hope under the searing sky.
Do not provoke this flesh-charred failure
Into our dear children’s breath, our ache-filled bones,
Like the noiseless chatter of death without end.
Copyright © 2007 mrp / thepoetryman
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