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. 

Texas cowlick

   It shines, like one fine

   business opportunity for

   wind, far as the eye can

   see.

Mitch Cullin
1986

The shirt tail and the seamstress

 We don't usually quibble with
 Geoffrey Chaucer, but our many
 shirtlifters, spotted in stained
 glass windows and insulating
 tapestries, marble and bronze,
 and canvas and oils, could well
 have been spared renascences to-
 day if he'd admitted a prescient
 seamstress to his epic parade.

 Such broad self-ripping of 
 bodice is upon us now, that 
 one scarcely has the chance 
 to evaluate the tissues for 
 their treatment by the trade.

 Eccovi il medico, we seem
 to have our Despina at last,
 and as in all her appearances,
 just in time.






















Rob Allen

Origins of Wednesday xxxvii: black tie optional balloting

The fine line between incredulous
and dubious has been reduced to 
such a wanton scrawl in this e-
lection, that we begin to ignore
the distinction entirely when a
new pronouncement is upon us, and
enjoy a freedom of interpretation
implicit in its promulgation. 

Faced with bizarre information from
our registrars of voters, that bal-
loting is to be black-tie optional
this year - yet another ploy to 
suppress turnout by egalitarians -
it fell to our friend Gérard to find
the permission always laid in plain
sight in that phrase, to adopt a
mode in the display of the identi-
fying tourniquet, as one of mourning.

Jeremy Young