Saturday commute xciii: after the frost, sunlight

  There are so many leaves

  to fall that you almost

  wonder how it can happen

  without your hearing it.

  But one does, in early

  sunrise after a frost,

  hear them falling one by

  one, pirouetting in des-

  cent en pointe upon one's

  cap beneath their canopy,

  finally specific, an en-

  tire corps revealed one

  by golden one; and one

  sees the light transfig-

  ured into following, fur-

  ling sheaths of sudden

  adulation, a lifelong

  season's shade dispersed

  in single, whole moments. 

Footnotes from the Styx

    Everything falls in

    place, reasonably e-

    nough, but it is not

    so easy to be recon-

    ciled with the heel.

    

    It is not mortality,

    the unease. It's the

    irremediable inter-
    ference, a legacy un-
    severable, unspendab-
    le - ancestral folly.

House Speaker announces a better idea than playing fair

Revenge.

It's what the bigots

always mean when they

assert the protection

of small business, the

family rental property,

and the practice of a-

doring their god to the

intended, specific harm

of others. Speaker John

Boehner, third in line

to the Presidency of

the United States, is

today's mouthpiece for

the Heritage Foundation,

a wolf pack on K Street.

Who's tomorrow's? And

whose flesh will feed

that jackal's phony 

teeth?

The New York Times

November 4th, 2013

A word on workplace decency

If I were a stonemason, a craft

we've contemplated before in

this place, I'd naturally pray

for my government's protection

from the child-threatening ex-

tremists who hold such media-

driven power over society to-

day, that they'd only invade 

my shop floor with subversive

funny clothes and quinoa honey

smoothies. How could I buff a

slate or cut a block symmetric-

ally, in a shop besieged by so 

much chaos on two feet? For

a real guy to do real work, he

needs protection from the law.

What ever happened to the idea

of unit cohesion? It was good

enough for the Army, and what's

good for a gun should be good

for a chisel: a guy shouldn't

have to worry about being at-

tacked, all the time, and you

know they always get all sweaty.

The New York Times

November 3rd, 2013