Who's missing?

I’m going to close my campaign the way 
I have begun my career, and the way I 
will serve as your president should you 
give me that great honor, focused on op-
portunities for kids and fairness for 
families . .

Hillary Rodham Clinton

University of North Carolina

Greensboro

15 September 2016

Take back, "irredeemable"

      I don't know how many people
      there are out there who will
      be unable to vote for a can-
      dilate for office in the Ex-
      ecutive Branch of government
      who designates any Americans
      as "irredeemable," expecting
      to be applauded for it. They
      had better be enormously out-
      numbered by partisans for an
      intolerable moral civil war.

      But this is blackmail, and I
      refuse to support it. To re-
      gret "half," quantitatively,
      and not repent of "all," ut-
      terly, heaps cowardice, eva-
      sion, and further shame upon
      the outrage of hot contempt.

      There are no votes available
      to cast against another soul.

Jeremy Young

Ivan Terestchenko

beach fire, detail

Origins of Wednesday xxxviii: Assuming red

Cocteau, who said a lot
of things - eventually 
said, outlaws recognize 
each other. It's Wednes-
day. There's still time.

                     Where you headed /

                     bit further along the road /

                     why

                     you running / oh I often do

                     / are you

                     meeting someone / yes

                     / who / a stranger / how

                     will

                     you recognize each other /

                     in a strange way / strange

                     to both of you / that

                     would   have   been   a

                     problem / it's no longer a

                     problem / no

Anne Carson

Red Doc>

  page 119

Alfred A. Knopf, 2013©

op. cit.

Invasion of the miracles ii: another wave

  

 When last we met our miracles
 of 2016 - the happy reversals
 our campaign currents are nat-
 urally structured to throw us,
 if not often well timed - the
 beaches were welcoming a test
 wave of sympathy, from the un-
 likelier of our candidates. A
 regathering of possibilities,
 biding their time even microb-
 ially, can churn anew our tea
 leaves, to dazzle speculation.

Bright people are always saying things

  
  

  The weekend has been another
  one of rhetorical intrusion,
  by many too many bright peo-
  ple, yielding the impression
  that a decent place of shade
  is only the direst wish of a
  kind of unlettered misanthro-
  py. Not at all, really. It's
  a ripened hope of Summer, we
  have grown to savor from its
  swing, every lifting thought
  complete without a murmuring.