Saturday, March 7, 2015

Saturday commute civ: Perils of staying over






  I think, our betters at
  The Lancet struck just
  the right tone, on how
  the most insidious hab-
  its insinuate themsel-
  ves, to say nothing of
  undermining discipline,
  and generating laundry.

  Today's food environ-
  ments exploit people's
  biological, psycholog-
  ical, social and econ-
  omic vulnerabilities,
  making it easier for
  them to eat unhealthy
  foods.




  































The Lancet
  Obesity 2015
February 18, 2015
Elsevier, Ltd., 2015©






Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Echoes of The Bacchae






     To deny the existence of red
     is to deny the existence of mystery.
     The soul which does so will one day go mad.

     I will never know how you see red
     and you will never know how I see
     it. But this separation of consci-
     ousness is recognized only after
     a failure of communication ..
































Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red
  A Novel in Verse
  xxxii. Kiss
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998©

Jacob Young
Select, London








I can't deny the scourge of the warlike Party










 I can't deny its
 pride has soiled
 me, to this day.

































Sending out for Boehner and Bibi





   Timing is everything. 

   Many, who couldn't bear
   the thought of risking in-
   gestion as Bibi and Boeh-
   ner trade robust resolve,
   will have underestimated
   the duration of their act.

   If there is no stalwart
   student pizza agency in
   your town down the road
   (and one can't believe,
   there isn't), it's incum-
   bent upon one rudimentar-
   ily to improvise a repast.

   If the soothings of pizza
   seem an incongruous pair-
   ing for rhetoric to rouse
   the blood, the transfats,
   alone, support the direst 
   apoplexy, with all the 
   panache of anchovy.
























Monday, March 2, 2015

Flies of the Lord: Bibi and Boehner at play






     One spoiled child of
     martial impunity, and
     our own ill-bred ditz,
     the lads have brought
     one step further than
     they may ever be able
     to survive. What will
     they not bring down?

     It is everyone's task,
     it seems to me, not to
     but to remember their
     authors as foreseeable
     accomplices in shame,
     and wash each other in 
     restorative remembrance.

     There are fragilities 
     of trust and contradic-
     tory strains upon con-
     viction, in being spon-
     sors of a nation state
     sheltering an ethnicity, 
     to end the terrorism of
     ethnicity, which every
     day are open to inter-
     nal betrayals by hubris. 
     These, they give us to 
     see, and not deny. This,
     these flies of the Lord

     Possibly, the extraor-
     dinary scandal they 
     precipitate before us,
     may hoist the scaffold
     to their common folly:
     arrogant aggression
     and racist meannness, 
     on the most saturating
     scale these two states
     have hosted in 3 gen-
     erations, may dissolve
     in sweet ablutions of
     electoral response.

     How fair's the tide?






























Sunday, March 1, 2015

Never fails





        The longer I wait
        for a haircut, the
        dumber the haircut
        I get.