TWEEDLE DEE ~

GO! BERNIE ~

V O T E

B E R N I E     S A N D E R S

P R E S I D E N T

United States Senator from Vermont
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2007 Serving with Patrick Leahy
Preceded by	Jim Jeffords
Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015
Preceded by	Patty Murray
Succeeded by	Johnny Isakson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Vermont's at-large district
In office January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Peter Plympton Smith
Succeeded by	Peter Welch
Mayor of Burlington
In office April 6, 1981 – April 4, 1989
Preceded by	Gordon Paquette
Succeeded by	Peter Clavelle
Personal details
Born	Bernard Sanders September 8, 1941 (age 74) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Political party	Liberty Union (Before 1979) Independent (1979–2015) Democratic (2015–present)
Spouse(s)	Deborah Shiling (1964–1966) Jane O’Meara (1988–present)
Domestic partner	Susan Mott (1969)[1]
Children	Levi (with Mott) Dave (stepchild) Carina (stepchild) Heather (stepchild)
Residence	Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Alma mater	Brooklyn College (1959–60) University of Chicago (1960–64)
Ethnicity	Jewish
Signature
Website	Senate website Campaign website

photograph by bob arnold







Charles Blow from the New York Times

FROM SNOW AND ROCK AND WOOD AND MUD AND OVER ICE ~

The day it turned sunny and 45 degrees and still February

my goodness! we headed back into the woodlot

and pulled out 12 sled loads of that red oak

firewood pile we had made earlier in the

week by felling the old and dead tree

and hand-splitting right on site

Except this time we loaded all 12 loads

right into two truck loads and

brought the firewood home that way

through the breaking down ground

frost, the mud that is here now

and let's not even try to

remember all the ice

Instead of dragging the sleds home twelve times

this time we used the truck —

we're not as dumb as we look —

and we still had a jolly old time

Did I tell you the battery is dead on the truck?

It's a 1989 Toyota red pickup

and it's the only vehicle

we ever bought brand new

our first 40 years of marriage

Walked right in with 12k in cash

in our pocket and that was

after saving 1k every year

for, you got it,

12 years

We have worked with the truck so long now

that it has worn out a name,

we call it "the red truck"

and we talk to the truck

nearly as much as we talk to

one another and we talk to

one another all the time!

We also pat the truck on the side

the steering wheel and when

we carry along the jump-start battery

in the cab with us to turn the truck over

(it takes quite a long time to sled down

through the woods sled loads and

load a truck up) plus I never

told you the frame is about

busted

We have to be tender,

and it's easy to be

tender

[ BA ]

28 February 2016

HILLARY - KISSINGER ~

H E N R Y     K I S S I N G E R     H I L L A R Y     C L I N T O N

 

 

SPEAK TO ME ~

this is a cartoon, an immediate classic to my mind,

I took a photograph of off someone's fridge door

I still can't stop laughing

the artist: Jason Adam Katzenstein

from the New Yorker

 

UNCOLLECTED ALLEN GINSBERG ~

[ P O E M ]




3'd day down Yangtze River, yesterday

passed vast mountain gorges and hairpin

river-bends, mist sun and cement factory

soft coal dust everywhere, all China

got a big allergic cold. Literary dele-

gation homebound after 3 weeks, now I'm

traveling separately like I used to — except

everywhere omnipresent kindly Chinese

Bureaucracy meets me at airports & boats

& takes me to tourist hotels & orders meals. I'm

trying to figure a way out — envious of 2

bearded hippies traveling 4th class in

steerage eating tangerines & bananas —

sleepers in passageways on mats, Chinese

voyagers playing checkers. Saw Beijing,

Great Wall, tombs & palaces, Suchow's

Tang gardens, Hangchow's West Lake walkway

dyke to hold the giant water in years of drought

built up by governors Tsu-Tung-Po and Po-Chu-I.

Saw Cold Mt. Temple w/ Snyder who'd

heard its bell echo across ocean.


                                                   — China, November 11, 1984


Published in: Big Scream, no. 20 (February 15, 1985), p. 4, November 11,1984

Now, here's a poet and his editor who know how to honor its small press.

Each poem in this book is individually notated and graced. 

FOR, MIKE LUSTER ~

WOODS WORK ~

We were up in the woodlot, full sunshine, this afternoon

barely any snow now, certainly ground plain of ice

Here's a photograph of bringing home over the ice

sliding like kites

two sled loads of dry oak

We left a good size pile of hand split oak

up in the woodlot for another day

when a bit more snow falls

For all our Hillary Clinton fans, and we

know you're out there friends

but we don't like the war-hawk Hillary

the liar Hillary, the daddy war-bucks Hillary

Goldman Sachs Hillary

any more than we any longer like our

Vermonters Peter Shumlin and Patrick Leahy

not rooting for their home town boy, Bernie


We would love a woman President!
Could you bring back Shirley Chisholm?
or ask Angela Davis, how about Elizabeth Warren?!
We'll wait for Elizabeth Warren —
if she even wants to bother
with this circus

Bernie should sit down on the end of the log

with Donald Trump and I bet he could

teach him some things —

after all, this great country was cut out

of raw wood by salesmen / con men (Trump)

and freedom riders (Bernie)

and an independent mind

is a glorious thing

That's how two woodcutting fools

chatter aloud in the woods

when the sun is

starting to feel warm

on their backs

25 degrees

to-

day

26 Feb 2016

THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF BARBECUE ~

I SHALL BE RELEASED ~

Mrs. Clinton, Show Voters Those Transcripts

(New York Times)

 

OSIP MANDELSTAM ~

Voronezh Notebooks



25



Goldfinch, friend, I'll cock my head —

Let's check the world out, just me and you:

This winter's day pricks like chaff;

Does it sting your eyes too?



Boat-tailed feathers yellow-black,

Sopped in color beneath your beak,

Do you get, you goldfinch you,

Just how you flaunt it?



What's he thinking, little airhead —

White and yellow, black and red!

Both eyes check both ways — both! —

Will check no more — he's bolted!

                                          December 9-27, 1936



__________________________ 

O S I P     M A N D E L S T A M 
Voronezh Notebooks
translated by Andrew Davis

New York Review of Books 2016

Mandelstam wrote this beauty two years before his death in 1938, still a young enough man. Fearless and unpopular with the Soviet authorities (Stalin), he was sentenced to hard labor in Siberia and last seen in a transit camp near Vladivostok.

 

MIRZA ABD AL-QADER BIDEL / ROBIN MAGOWAN ~

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VITA

Besides ten poetry collections and a number of translations from French, Italian, Spanish and more recently Persian, Robin Magowan is the author of an autobiography, Memoirs of a Minotaur, a collection of travel pieces, Improbable Journeys, a critical study of modern pastoral, Narcissus and Orpheus, and two accounts of continental cycle racing.  His Garden of Amazement: Scattered Gems after Sâeb appeared from Longhouse in 2015. He resides on a hilltop above Santa Fe where he wrestles with a large rock garden.

The poet, mystic and philosopher Mirza ‘Abd al-Qader Bidel (1644-1720) is India’s greatest writer in Persian and the last exponent of the innovative Indo-Persian style.  Born in Patna, he lived most of his life in Delhi, serving as a soldier before taking a vow of poverty and becoming a wandering dervish."

ROBBIE BASHO ~

LISTEN TO ROBBIE ~

https://grasstopsrecording.bandcamp.com/album/bouquet?mc_cid=bce948ffab&mc_eid=e11908c6e8

 

SMELL THE ROSES ~

http://longform.org/stories/playboy-interview-george-carlin

SNAKEFARM ~

HIT THE ROAD, JEB! ~

BE GLAD THIS GUY'S GONE

MAY HIS FAMILY JOIN HIM

AND, BY THE WAY,

JUST HOW MUCH

HEALTH CARE

WOULD THIS

WASTED $

PROVIDE

FOR THE

NEEDY

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/us/politics/jeb-bush-campaign.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news 

 

image: The New Yorker

SHARON TATE, ED SANDERS, QUICKSAND ~

S H A R O N     T A T E

https://newrepublic.com/article/127437/unlocking-mystery-sharon-tate

Da Capo 2016 

sketchy at the start. . .ride with it


 

OLIVIER MESSIAEN ~

http://www.oliviermessiaen.org/messiaen2index.htm

HARDSCRABBLE ~

My favorite stories of America are the hardscrabble stories. That's the opposite of the losers — the hardscrabblers — those would be the likes of Bernie Sanders and certainly not Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Hardscrabblers would also include Barack Obama and Paul Wellstone, who was most likely killed. For the past eight years the geniuses of the Republican Congress have tried to kill Barack Obama. They've done pretty well for themselves, but so has Barack Obama, and by the way, Michelle Obama. Just watch what history will do for them once the prejudices all around us move along. Hillary Clinton has already learned a great deal from Bernie Sanders, whereas Bernie Sanders hasn't learned anything he doesn't already know about Hillary Clinton. If she were smart, as she charges ahead with her corporate backers to the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, she would enlist Bernie Sanders and his hardscrabble and hard won winnings (decades of it) into her forthcoming story. The Republican elite are a mess having to watch Donald Trump at work, but there is a strong legion of the usual non-voters who plan to rocket Trump into a higher registry. They call themselves independent, often they are, and good for them in that hardscrabble school. . .but a good many are also racist, bigoted and troubled. They may find themselves voting for Trump with other independents who followed Sanders and want nothing to do with Clinton; and at the same time leagues of soft Republicans who can't stand Donald Trump may be siding with Hillary Clinton. The cross winds of politics as both Republican and Democrat will disappear into a new voting of the new Civil War. However, don't be fooled, neither Trump or Clinton are American success stories. They are corporate big dogs who toe the line for big business interests, war politics, and the mainstream. There will be no hardscrabble classic film ever made of these two. Sanders yes; Obama for sure. Whether Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, or Jean Renoir's classic film The Southerner, we adapt and weep and curl up with the dear American hardscrabble story. Songs of Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Jimmy Rodgers, Blind Willie McTell, Odetta. In a book, on the screen, or music. A pity you can't recognize it when it's right in front of you.

20 February 2016

POLAR MUSIC PRIZE 2000 MEETS THE GRIZZLY ~