#max ginsberg

[emiliosandozsequence]

war pieta by max ginsberg / the borgias 2.03

[lesmiserabelles]

cable street, southwark playhouse - 24 February 2024, evening (previews) Joshua Ginsberg (Sammy Scheinberg), Danny Colligan (Ron Williams), Sha Dessi (Mairaid Kenny), Debbie Chazen (Kathleen Kenny), Jade Johnson (Rosa Scheinberg), Aoife Mac Namara (Orlaith Kenny/Violin), Ethan Pascal Peters (Moishe Scheinberg), Sophia Ragavelas (Edie Williams), Max Alexander-Taylor (Sean Kelly), Sarah Leatherbarrow (Rachel Scheinberg), Jez Unwin (Yitzhak Scheinberg)

since it's been stuck in my head, sharing the opening number of new musical cable street, feat. a couple of former les mis cast members for those who are interested in such things

[racew1nn3rs]

─ 𝘚𝘌𝘊𝘙𝘌𝘛𝘚, 𝘚𝘌𝘊𝘙𝘌𝘛𝘚 🫀

max verstappen x singer!fem reader // smau

⤷ summary: when max verstappen starts commenting on the posts of the beloved singer y/n l/n, fans are confused and less than enthusiastic at the new friendship. what they could never expect is just how long they've been 'friends'...

based on this request <3

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ynusername my new album is now officially out on all platforms! thank you so so much for all of the love and support, and special thanks to sab for her feature on the song <33 love u bb girl 🫦🫦 now that the album's out, tour next!!! see you all soon!

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user1 THE ALBUM OUT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

user2 i cannot be normal about this i fear

user3 ik her back hurts from CARRYING the music industry on her back 😩

user4 hey so WHO TF IS SO AMERICAN ABOUT?? A LOVE SONG

user5 y/n writing a love song in god's year of 2024... wow

user6 y/n in the top 10 charts, fork found in kitchen

user7 sabrina and y/n are never beating the gf allegations

ynusername damn right we're not 😏

user7 HOLY SHIR HOKY SHIT HOKST SHUT

user8 y/n's in love and it's not with me, hanging myself as we speak

user9 the comment is gonna get reported but so real op

user8 can't a woman hang herself in peace 😣

user10 album's such a banger i had this shit bumpin at my grandmas funeral 🙏🏼 rest in piece nancy 🕊️💪🏻

user11 OH MY GOD???

user12 rest in piece nancy you would've loved make you mine 😔

ynusername oh my god please tell me your joking

user10 sorry queen the grind never stops

ynusername NO SHOT

maxverstappen1 great album! 👍🏼

user13 why does he text like my father 🧍🏻‍♀️

user14 brother eughh

user15 what da hell is a polar bear doin in arlington texas

ynusername thank you max!!!

user16 y/n l/n to redbull in 2025

user17 hellurrrrr who is this man in ur likes y/n

user18 f1 driver!!

user17 Y/N NO ATHELETES PLEAEJEWK 🫵

user18 tour content soon??? i'm sat

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user19 bro looks like he snuck onto earth, get his ass outta here

user20 grammy-award winner, vogue cover model, new york university graduate and Some Fucking Guy

user21 not y'all coming to her defense like the mighty morphin power rangers 💀💀 he's literally a world class athete and she writes pop music

user20 17.172.224.47

user21 IS THAT MY IP ADDRESS??

user20 melinda charleton

user22 IS THAT HIS MOTHER'S NAME!!?1?1!

user20 you want me to do you too???

user22 no we good 😃

user23 ruth bader ginsberg did not die for this

user24 now wtf does this have to do with babe ruth 🤨

user25 WHOOOOO 😧

user24 ... that wasn't right was it

user26 now let's be fr he does NAWT have a chance

user27 have u seen the marble-carved  goddesses these men pull, i fear he does 😔

user28 please no i feel ill

user29 TWO???? OH HELL NAW

user30 two might be pushing it, only one was confirmed

user31 jesus christ

user32 first taylor, now this

user33 yall, all he commented was great album 💀💀 yall are LEAPING to conclusions

user34 what can i say it's an art

user35 i do not see 👁️👄👁️

user36 no like 💀💀 im in your walls

user37 haha max verstappen!! right!!! (theres a sniper at ur location)

user38 omg ur so right 🤩 it is about him (i have a bomb strapped to my chest)

user39 i dont mean to sound stupid, idk who that man is, if i saw him on the streets i wouldnt know a thing 🥱

user40 this is so random too like what 😭

user41 the power of kindness won't work here, i have to throw him off a building

user42 i used to be a max verslsjjwwo lover 🤩 now im just a max verslsjjwwo hater 😔

user43 NURSE 🫵 SHE'S OUT AGAIN

user44 why would u put that into the universe 😧

user45 alright, lets get you to bed grandma

user46 mari stop being delusion and go touch grass 🧍🏻‍♀️

user47 ENOUGHHHH

user48 ain't no way in hell 😭

user49 ik ur feet hurt from all this jumping to conclusions babe

user50 lets leave the parkour to the athletes 😃

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ynusername italy thanks for letting me be inside you (; it was such a lovely show, expect me back asap!!!!

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user51 IT WAS SO GOOD I THNK I BLACKED OUT THE WHOLE TIME THO

user52 oh!

user51 oh so now this isn't a safe space

user53 LANDO AND MAX IN TGE LIKES??? NO NO NO NO

user54 ABORT ABORT ABORT

user55 y'all are doing too much 🙄 she's one of the top artists in the world, i think it's safe to say they might like her music

user56 the second picture 🧎🏻‍♀️do you need a stool cause i can kneel and be really quiet

user57 y/n fans be normal challenge (impossible!!!) (never done before)

user56 WOMP WOMP

maxverstappen1 wonderful show! 🙏🏼 you are so talented

ynusername ty max (: im glad you could come see me

user57 ain't NO WAYYYYYY

user59 THIS IS SIXKENJNG IM GONNA PUKE

sabrinacarpenter my gf looking sexy 🫦🫦🫦

ynusername only for u bbg 🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️

user60 BOOOO 🗣️ GET A ROOM

user61 do y'all need a third!!!!

user62 mamma mia pizza pasta mozzerella moment

user63 i just put u on a watchlist

user62 ����🏻‍♀️

landonorris RAHHHHHH 🦅🫵🗣️‼️

ynusername RAHHH RAHHH RAHHH RISE POWER POWER 💪🏻‼️

user63 what the fuck

user64 OH GOD WHAT IF SHES DATING HIM????

ynusername brother eughhhh

landonorris WHAT THE FUCK????

user65 SINCE WHEN IS SHE FRIENDS WITH F1 DRIVERS HOW MANY CHAPTWRS DID I MISS

user66 apparently we all went into a universal coma while she was out galavanting cause idk how else this could've happened

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maxverstappen1 posted to his story!

(caption: beautiful show)

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user67 someone save my girl bro, she don't know any better 😭

user68 it's like a little kid trying to touch the hot stove, LIKE STOP THAT!! DON'T DO THAT

user69 am i the only one who thinks they'd be cute together....

user70 YES!?!?

user71 there is literally no fucking way he bagged her

user72 losing y/n to european f1 driver would be the biggest american tragedy since 2001

user73 i had to read this shit twice, op what r u waffling abt 🫵😧

user74 can't even be nonchalant about this one bro, i'm chalanting hard asf

user75 we do not care

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ynusername first time in monaco, safe to say i enjoyed myself! so happy to see you shine this time my love<3

25,788 comments

user76 oh. my. fucking. god

user77 THEYRE FUCKING DATING OH MYFODNSJ

user78 THAT SHOULD BE MEEEE HOLDING YOUR HAND THAT SHOULD BE MEEE MAKING YOU LAUGHHH 🎤

user79 i'm in mourning

sabrinacarpenter CHEATER 🫵

ynusername BABY IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, IT WAS JUST ONE TIME 😣😣😣 IT WAS A MISTAKE

maxverstappen1 we've been dating for 2 years??

sabrinacarpenter SHUT UP FAST & FURIOUS NO ONE ASKED YOU

user80 i'm sorry 😃 two Y EARS

user81 i feel like i just got dumped. y/n don't do this, the kids need you 😔

maxverstappen1 i got p1 for you, i love you 🫶🏼

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hope you all enjoyed! please let me know your thoughts and feel free to leave a request for me to write something for your fav <3

[une-sanz-pluis]

Margaret of Anjou After Tewkesbury

Niccolò dell’Arca, Lamentation over the Dead Christ (figure of Mary Madgalene), 1463 | Sandra Logan, Shakespeare's Foreign Queens: Drama, Politics and the Enemy Within | Max Ginsberg, War Pieta (detail) | Livi Michael, Accession | Anneliese Merrigan, To All the Bodies I've Dreamt of Carrying in Absence of Yours | Anne Carson, 'The Glass Essay', Glass, Irony & God | Margaret (Katy Stephens) and the remains of her son, Richard III (RSC, Michael Boyd 2007).

[snailsnfriends]

friendship among girls

west wind (mary oliver) / a good love (charlotte ager) / twin stars (clairel estevez) / sex education (laurie nunn) / derry girls (lisa mcgee) / water serpents (gustav kilmt) / ribs (lorde) / anne of green gables (lucy maud montgomery) / the friends (max ginsberg) / in the company of women (january gill o'neil) / graceland too (phoebe bridgers) / wicked (winnie holzman) / fleabag (phoebe waller-bridge) / silhouette (janice lobo sapigao) / x / juno (jason reitman) / black iris (leah raeder) / jennifer's body (karyn kusama) / the art of loving and losing female friends (rachel vorona cote) / clothes swap/brooklyn 2008 (hope gangloff) / mabel (becca de la rosa & maybell marten) / twin stars (clairel estevez) / friends (colin bootman) / my little pony: friendship is magic (lauren faust)

[kvetchlandia]

Marcia Resnick Allen Ginsberg, Carl Soloman, Peter Orlovsky and William Burroughs, Max's Kansas City, Union Square, New York City 1984

[hagbrigade]

betty being 30 and having a chip for the first time in her life… shes so perfect i love her. doctor called her middle aged?? shes like 31-32 max. also her having literal cancer…

boston tap water is disgusting

betty and don finally having a real relationship once they didnt have to be everything for each other 😭

obsessed with stan and how well he knows peggy and how obsessed with her he is. i would almost like him if he wasnt a mega misogynist.

GINSBERG!!!!!!!!!!!! YASSSSS DAWN AND GINSBERG INTRO FINALLY YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brasilconspiracao]

HOW THE CIA PLANNED THE DRUGGING OF AMERICA - LSD, Timothy Leary, Grateful Dead, Hippie Movement, Occult Religions, 60s and WW2 Mind Control Experiments

HOW THE CIA PLANNED THE DRUGGING OF AMERICA https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01350R000200160001-6.pdf

Other documents indicated that Leary had received money channeled by the CIA through various goverment agencies. Iri all, he received eight government grants from 1953 to 1958, most of them through the National Institute of Mental Health, now known to have been one of the counduits for research under the MKULTRA program.

When the “Most Dangerous Man in America” Tried to Start A Religion and Change the World from Hudson Street https://www.villagepreservation.org/2020/07/15/when-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america-tried-to-start-a-religion-and-change-the-world-from-hudson-street/

Leary frequented found a safe have in many places in the Greenwich Village and the East Village for these pursuits. Even Jimi Hendrix participated in a fundraiser for Leary at the Village Gate in 1970.

[...]

LSD drug advocate Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg (l.) at the Village Gate Theatre, where the League for Spiritual Development sponsored film.

[...]

The song “Come Together” by the Beatles was written as a campaign song for Leary’s ill-fated run for Governor of California against Ronald Reagan. Leary’s slogan was “Come together, join the party,” There is so much more to the life of this countercultural character, who is associated with the phrase “Turn on, Tune In, Drop Out”. The book “The Most Dangerous Man in America” by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis is an award-winning work of non-fiction and source for further fascinating information of his life and the times.

Timothy Leary's liberation, and the CIA's experiments! LSD's amazing, psychedelic history https://www.salon.com/2013/12/14/timothy_learys_liberation_and_the_cias_experiments_lsds_amazing_psychedelic_history/

however, the cat was very much out of the bag at that point and the first major group to examine the potential use of LSD was, of course, the CIA. In the 1950s and ‘60s the CIA had several top secret initiatives under the names BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and MK-ULTRA, which sought to develop mind control techniques or “brainwashing” à la Manchurian Candidate as an aid to the interrogation of subjects as part of their Cold War activities. These programs had been inspired by, among other things, documents that the CIA had obtained after World War II describing experiments with mescaline performed by Nazi doctors on the inmates of the Dachau concentration camp. LSD was first brought to the United States in 1949 by Dr. Max Rinkel, who carried out research using the drug on a population of 100 volunteers. Together with his colleague Dr. Paul Hoch they noted that LSD produced effects that mimicked schizophrenic psychosis. Indeed, they postulated that LSD produced a model psychosis—that is, it was “psychotomimetic.”

[...]

The idea that LSD could produce mental disorganization encouraged the CIA to start using it in experiments similar to those carried out by the Nazi doctors. CIA operatives began administering the drug in secret to different subject populations (or indeed to each other). Like the Nazis, the CIA used different populations of helpless individuals such as prisoners, drug addicts, and mental patients in their experiments, often with appalling results. The CIA not only performed experiments on individuals but also came up with schemes for contaminating the water supply of potential enemies with LSD so as to incapacitate entire hostile populations. For this they would need large amounts of the drug, at one point ordering the equivalent of 100 million doses from Sandoz. When they found out that obtaining such a large amount as this might be somewhat problematic they turned to Eli Lilly and Company, whose capable chemists broke the secret Sandoz patent and assured the CIA that they could produce LSD in tons or similar amounts.

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Nevertheless, in the atmosphere of general paranoia that pervaded the postwar era, the CIA maintained an important role in manipulating the developing drug culture. CIA operatives acted as drug suppliers if they were interested in observing drug effects under particular circumstances, and infiltrated different drug-using groups with political points of view deemed to be of “interest” so as to relay information back to Washington.

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Aldous Huxley was another individual who greatly enhanced the awareness of the potential of psychedelic drug use. His interest in this subject clearly preceded the drug revolution of the 1960s as his famous book "Brave New World," which had described the use of psychotropic drugs to control an entire society, had been published in 1931.

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initially he and Alpert started their own organization, the International Federation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) for the further study of the religious and psychological potential of hallucinogenic drug use. The IFIF was headquartered in a Mexican resort town. However, the reports of wild orgies and other unseemly behavior caused the Mexican authorities to evict the group, and Leary was back in the United States once again.

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As a guide to the direction and understanding of LSD-induced psychedelic experience, Leary used the Tibetan Book of the Dead which deals explicitly with different states of consciousness. Leary reinterpreted this so that it ended up as a sort of mixture of Buddhist wisdom and Scientology. Clearly at this point Leary had become the high priest of an LSD-fueled religion complete with its own bible. Millbrook was visited by a wide variety of high-profile individuals from the arts and politics, and its place in the general public’s consciousness rapidly increased.

LSD Promoter Timothy Leary exposed as CIA agent in 1979 Video Footage showing Tim Leary reminiscing with MK-Ultra's Humphrey Osmond (of MI6 & CIA), Al Hubbard & Oscar Janiger. MK-Ultra personnel were backstage at Grateful Dead concerts where LSD was distributed to public. Bob Weir in Bohemian Grove https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/8relrg/lsd_promoter_timothy_leary_exposed_as_cia_agent/

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

On the CIA hiring Nazi doctors and Japanese torturers to learn methods

Leary's LSD House had occult symbols (Pagan God and "Star of David")

Timothy Leary’s Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, New York, May Be the State’s Strangest Home https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/timothy-leary-hitchcock-estate-millbrook

Leary's book:

Ginsberg (connected to Leary)

Allen Ginsberg (Beat Generation Liberal writer) was a member of NAMBLA (Pedophile Advocacy Org) https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/15537ol/allen_ginsberg_beat_generation_liberal_writer_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[formerlibrarian]

Groups of writers, artists, and thinkers who share common interests, ideas, and values, and who come together to discuss and promote their work.

These groups often emerge during periods of cultural and social change and are characterized by their innovative and unconventional approach to art and ideas.

The Algonquin Round Table was a group of witty writers and critics who gathered for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. They were known for their sharp wit, humor, and wordplay. The members included Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, and George S. Kaufman.

"Gertrude Stein's salon" or simply the "Stein salon" was a gathering place for writers, artists, and intellectuals in Paris during the early 20th century. Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, hosted weekly gatherings in their apartment which became a center for avant-garde culture and a meeting place for artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, as well as writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot.

The Bloomsbury Group - a group of writers, artists, and intellectuals who lived in the Bloomsbury area of London in the early 20th century. Members included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes.

The Harlem Renaissance - a cultural movement that emerged in Harlem, New York City, in the 1920s and 1930s. It was characterized by a flowering of African American art, literature, and music, and included artists such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Duke Ellington.

The Surrealists - a group of artists and writers who were associated with the Surrealist movement, which began in France in the 1920s. Members included Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst.

The Inklings - a literary discussion group associated with Oxford University in the 1930s and 1940s. Members included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams.

The Black Mountain poets - a group of poets associated with Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s. Members included Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov.

The Beat Generation - a group of writers and poets who emerged in the United States in the 1950s. Members included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.

The Factory was Andy Warhol's studio and creative hub in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s. A gathering place for a diverse group of artists, musicians, and other creatives. Notable figures associated with the Factory include musicians Debbie Harry and Lou Reed, artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and author Truman Capote.

[halcyon-summer]

America by Allen Ginsberg

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.

America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.

I can’t stand my own mind.

America when will we end the human war?

Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

I don’t feel good don’t bother me.

I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.

America when will you be angelic?

When will you take off your clothes?

When will you look at yourself through the grave?

When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?

America why are your libraries full of tears?

America when will you send your eggs to India?

I’m sick of your insane demands.

When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?

America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.

Your machinery is too much for me.

You made me want to be a saint.

There must be some other way to settle this argument.

Burroughs is in Tangiers I don’t think he’ll come back it’s sinister.

Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?

I’m trying to come to the point.

I refuse to give up my obsession.

America stop pushing I know what I’m doing.

America the plum blossoms are falling.

I haven’t read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for murder.

America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I’m not sorry.

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.

When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.

My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble.

You should have seen me reading Marx.

My psychoanalyst thinks I’m perfectly right.

I won’t say the Lord’s Prayer.

I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.

America I still haven’t told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over from Russia.

I’m addressing you.

Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?

I’m obsessed by Time Magazine.

I read it every week.

Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.

I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.

It’s always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody’s serious but me.

It occurs to me that I am America.

I am talking to myself again.

Asia is rising against me.

I haven’t got a chinaman’s chance.

I’d better consider my national resources.

My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that jetplanes 1400 miles an hour and twentyfive-thousand mental institutions.

I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underprivileged who live in my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.

I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.

My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I’m a Catholic.

America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his automobiles more so they’re all different sexes.

America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe

America free Tom Mooney

America save the Spanish Loyalists

America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die

America I am the Scottsboro boys.

America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother Bloor the Silk-strikers’ Ewig-Weibliche made me cry I once saw the Yiddish orator Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have been a spy.

America you don’t really want to go to war.

America its them bad Russians.

Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.

The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia’s power mad. She wants to take our cars from out our garages.

Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader’s Digest. Her wants our auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.

That no good. Ugh. Him make Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers. Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.

America this is quite serious.

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.

America is this correct?

I’d better get right down to the job.

It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.

America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Berkeley, January 17, 1956

[book-ramblings]

2023 IN BOOKS - A LONG POST

What I read last year, divided into a few categories. I didn't in the end feel like writing down all 80-ish books, so this is a selection.

1 Poetry - I'm trying to get into poetry, but I'm not a 'natural' poetry reader.

Aftonland - Pär Lagerkvist

Bluets - Maggie Nelson

Sonnets - William Shakespeare

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come for Us - Fatimah Asghar

Wild Embers - Nikita Gill

The Wild Iris - Louise Glück

Poems - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blue Horses - Mary Oliver

Love Letters to the World - Meia Geddes

Aún - Pablo Neruda

from Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Bestiary - Donika Kelly

Winter Recipes from the Collective - Louise Glück

Selected Poems - Percy Bysshe Shelley

2 Short Stories and Novellas

Skördad - Anna Jakobsson Lund

The October Country and Other Stories - Ray Bradbury

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

Burning Girls and Other Stories - Veronica Schanoes

Galatea - Madeline Miller

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

3 For Work

Konsten att undervisa - Filippa Mannerheim

Poesi direkt - Daniel Boyacioglu

4 Comics and Graphic Novels

The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman

Nimona - N D Stevenson

Sandman vol 5 - Neil Gaiman

5 Rereads

The Fellowship of the Ring - J R R Tolkien

The Two Towers - J R R Tolkien

The Return of the King - J R R Tolkien

The Rook - Daniel O'Malley

Stiletto - Daniel O'Malley

Blitz - Daniel O'Malley

Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb

Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb

How to Marry a Werewolf - Gail Carriger

6 Favourites

Toll the Hounds - Steven Erikson

Augustus - John Williams

Circe - Madeline Miller

This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Crippled God - Steven Erikson

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss

Infomocracy - Malka Older

Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey

+ The Paper Menagerie, Stories of Your Life and most rereads...

7 Other Noteworthy Reads

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold

Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold

Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold

Dust of Dreams - Steven Erikson

Women Talking - Miriam Toews

Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

An Inheritance of Magic - Benedict Jacka

The Power Naomi Alderman

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

Ice - Anna Kavan

[limoteethw]

Air Drake Maye shirt, sweater

Air Drake Maye shirt, sweater

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I had to deal with it in ninth grade go every time it happened she would go straight to the school and she did the Air Drake Maye shirt, sweater thing for my sister when my sister got picked on for associating with a boy that had been picked on and stood up for himself and the school didn’t like it and deems that he no longer could go to that school and he got expelled and he decided you can’t expel me I’m gonna quit and left my mom told the school that she can associate with that boy and there’s nothing wrong with him and if they keep picking on my sister she’s gonna sue the school. .

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Simply look at Steve Jobs, the guy who ran Apple so well. He was a Cincinnati Reds MLB Hawaiian Shirt Warm Season Aloha Shirt believer in “natural” medicine, in fact he wouldn’t bathe since he felt this somehow or other weakened him but his fellow workers had lots of problems with this. He developed Pancreatic Cancer nothing may have done him any good but from the little that I’ve found on his case he may have had a rare case, like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, where prompt surgery may have saved him. He wanted to try some “natural treatments” first, he did, and you know how that turned out. Just because you know a lot about a lot of things don not assume that you know everything about everything. He was in many ways a brilliant man in most areas but not in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. The worst part is he got a liver transplant later on when he decided to try regular medicine, something that might have saved someone who really needed it. So sad.

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Sascha Pohflepp, Growth Assembly, 2009. Installation view, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, 2020. Photograph: Max Schachtner. 

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Season 7 (2015)

With just about every competition show I've followed, whenever there's a highly praised season, the one that follows it is almost always disliked. And Season 7 of Drag Race is no exception. It has a pretty bad reputation. Is it warranted though? I think to some degree it is. On paper, this should be a strong cast, but they quickly divide between the younger queens vs the bitter older queens, and the latter group is pretty unlikeable. Actually the younger are pretty unlikeable at times as well, including the winner. One of the biggest issues with Season 7 is the challenges. There's so many acting ones. There's SEVEN team challenges for some reason. And the producers tried to add twists, but a lot of their ideas didn't pay off. The premiere ditched the photoshoot and replaced it with the first ever Fashion Show, which ate up so much time that we didn't really get to know much of the cast. The first runway was the Nude Illusion, which was a flop. The Merle Ginsberg skits had such weird writing. The whole Conjoined Twins Makeover was weird too. As was the half-man/half-woman design. And the Hello Kitty Ball was a disappointment too. Plus there was TWO singing challenges! The second one even involved a sketch about poo. On the other hand, the award show was something new, and I think that one worked. I laughed at Kathy Griffin tearing apart everyone's banter. The Snatch Game was one of the best; it's also the first instance of queens impersonating past contestants. And the Rusical was good but had too much screaming. I also really question the judging throughout the season. I disagree with so many challenge winners. Pearl shouldn't have won the lip sync against Trixie. Pearl shouldn't have made Final 3. It seemed like they were protecting Fame and Violet from lip syncing. Max was done really dirty. And Katya was robbed. Also, the returnee twist came back. But I'm glad that a challenge was used to determine the returnee instead of the producers just handpicking whoever they wanted. Although I think Trixie was the favourite to return either way. Pearl being her partner in the Makeover really played into that storyline. Another reason I lose interest in this season is because my top 3 favourites get knocked out at 8th/7th/5th, and while I don't hate the Final 4 necessarily, it just feels like an underwhelming ending. I think Ginger was supposed to be the winner too, but the audience wasn't behind her, and that's what matter these days. There's some production changes in Season 7 too. Santino was replaced by Ross and Carson alternating, since Santino's knowledge didn't apply to where the show was headed. The Untucked location was moved to the backstage area. It's the first season where the eliminated queens take home a participation trophy at the end of every episode. It's the first time that Ru shows the childhood photos during the final critique. And the "She-Mail" videos were thankfully changed to "she done already done had herses". They also kept "Sissy That Walk" for the runways, proving that it is the best runway song. Season 7 definitely has its share of drama. From Sasha vs Pearl, to Tempest vs Kandy, to Kennedy vs Violet, to Fame vs Peal. There's also the infamous Pearl vs Ru stand-off. As well as Ru yelling at the losing team in "ShakesQueer". This season goes off the rails at times doesn't it? But I don't think it's as bad as its reputation says.

Queens Ranking: 14. Frisbee Jenkins (FKA Sasha Belle) A superfan who did her homework! But it didn't do her any good. All of Frisbee/Sasha's looks were pretty unpolished - the orange harness in her entrance, her wig in the Spring look, the crab design in her Fall look (where she also tossed a fan lol), her raggedy Jetset Eleganza, and of course the Nude Illusion where she misunderstand the assignment. I still don't understand how she wasn't in the bottom 2 in that first episode. She also said Pearl should go home because she's "standoffish" and lacks charisma, which lead to some tension between them. And then in the Rusical, she didn't like her role; while during the performance, she unclipped her hair for whatever reason. 13. Kandy Ho "Right on my alley". Kandy only made it as far as she did because of her lip sync moves. She got quite into it during "Lovergirl", which I enjoyed more than "Geronimo". But then Jaidyn outdid her in "Break Free". That elimination was long overdue. Kandy started the season commenting on Tempest's age, basically saying that her style is passé. She shouldn't have been bottom 2 in the first episode, but I guess production wanted to play up the storyline. Her fashion show looks were pretty bad though and she was read for contouring a beard. However once Tempest left, Kandy was kind of just... "there" for the next 5 episodes. She had some sexy hand movements in the Rusical, but her other performances were pretty boring. While her acting as RuPaul was too hammy, and not in a fun Max way. She wasn't nice about Fame in the Conjoined Twins episode too. 12. Tempest DuJour Despite Tempest being a costume designer, I wasn't a fan of any of her looks. She popped a baby in her entrance, her Spring outfit should've been left behind in the 60s, her Fall outfit was that black poncho thing, and her Nude Illusion involved golden crabs around her waist. But I loved her message about not letting age stop you from reaching your dreams; her weight loss story and her dealing with conversion therapy were also personal moments. Otherwise, Tempest had some conflict with Kandy, and I guess that's why they were bottom 2 together. And her squiggly arms in the lip sync lacked conviction. But I end up not caring about Tempest that much. 11. Violet Chachki Violet had a stereotypical pageant girl attitude. She was vain, rude, and a diva. Almost all the other queens didn't like her. She retorted "no one says [Hotlanta]" to Jasmine. She disagreed with Michelle's critiques. She passed blame onto the directors in rehearsals. Kennedy and Max called her a "bitch". Trixie and Kennedy shut her down as team leaders in two episodes. Although Violet did have an awakening moment in the Episode 5 Untucked. She made a conscious effort to grow afterwards. Then at the Final 4, Ginger and Kennedy beat her down, so her ultimate win proved them wrong. Obviously Violet is known for her runways - the tartan reveal, being totally naked in Nude Illusion, the pink dress in Bearded and Beautiful, the super cinched waist in Death Becomes Her, the S&M Leather and Lace, and her Hello Kitty headpiece. But I prefer winners who are more comedic. She was praised for the seatbelt bit in the Rusical, but meh. Her award show banter didn't land. She'd often have these pauses when acting. She fumbled a line in the "Poo" skit. Her "ShakesQueer", Michelle Visage and Alyssa Edwards in Snatch Game were all towards the bottom for me. But I liked her Adore impersonation in the music video. And she aced the tango dancing. She had the best look for that too. Still... according to my judging, Violet has one of the weakest track records from the winners. 10. Ginger Minj Ginger was a contender from the start, but I liked her less and less as the season went on. She just seemed fake and two-faced? She constantly talked s**t about other queens in Untucked, basically stirring the pot, but acted so congenial and defensive at the same time. She said Fame wasn't a "performer performer" and claimed she didn't mean to start s**t. She became Pearl's friend in the episode 11 Untucked, then threw her under the bus next episode. And towards the end, Ginger got in her head whenever there was a sewing or dancing challenge. She wound up in the bottom 2 twice because of it. The conjoined boobs didn't even look like boobs; she also got annoyed at Sasha during that challenge. She overcame it in the Rusical though, which she actually won. She stood out as the center role during her team's section, but I wouldn't call it a winning performance. Otherwise, Ginger excelled at the comedy challenges - the award show, playing a demonic Michelle Visage, Adele in Snatch Game, her bit about the eggs in the John Waters film. I'd say she had the best "Born Naked" skit too. She was good at giving comedic faces and brought that comedy to the lip syncs. But her runways weren't all that either. Her glittering red Spring look is probably my fave. 9. Mrs. Kasha Davis My initial reaction going into this re-watch was "who?" But Kasha was a good performer. She probably should've won the Rusical - that's where she danced around the pitcrew and blew the whistle at the end. She was good as Lady Cappuccino in "ShakesQueer". And her Joan Rivers bit in that mini-challenge was funny. But then Katya overshadowed her in the awards show opening (why were they standing so far apart?) And she had that Cowardly Lion voice thing. Still, Kasha held her own against Kandy in the lip sync. The green money dress was my fave look of hers. And she was the only member of the "Bitter Old Lady Bridge" that didn't get on my nerves at times. I can understand why she got frustrated at Pearl and Jasmine for not trying when she applied for 7 years. She didn't have much tolerance for bad attitudes from the other queens lol. But ultimately, I don't think she had enough charisma to stand out in the contest. 8. Trixie Mattel Somwhat overrated. Trixie was "meh" in Season 7. She has a signature make-up style and she brought some campy looks - the tennis Nude Illusion, the plane on her head for Jetset Eleganza (which Jasmine and Ginger did not get on Untucked). And her Rusical performance was her best challenge moment. But she left early because she didn't deliver on initial expectations of being a comedy queen. She was kinda flat as the narrator for "ShakesQueer" and she wasn't funny in the tanning music video. She then lost a lip sync to Pearl that every fan agrees was the wrong result. She was justifiably given a second chance a few episodes later, but she didn't do much with her second run either? She was okay in the John Waters film, while the campy dancing with Ginger didn't win me over. Trixie was also pretty dry in confessional to me. She's a nice person though, and I liked that she turned an abusive insult into her drag name. Overall, she's... okay to me. 7. Jasmine Masters Everything about the cocoon runway - her describing it to Ru in the Werk Room, Ross and Carson's reactions, the fact it wasn't resort wear - is hilarious. But Jasmine rubbed me the wrong way whenever she looked down on the younger queens, namely Fame/Trixie/Pearl/Violet. She thought what they did wasn't real drag, just because her generation was different. She'd bash them with her friend Kennedy. She criticized Trixie's look in Untucked, and when Trixie asked how Jasmine's look fit the theme, she got annoyed at Trixie running her mouth. Projection much. I wasn't so into her crop tops either. And then her "ShakesQueer" acting was so bad and she wanted to give up if she had to lip sync against Kennedy. She ended up doing some squats in that lip sync, so she didn't really give up. Otherwise, her episode 3 runway gown and her Rusical performance were Jasmine's better moments. 6. Max Max had this pretentious theatre accent, and she wasn't that well-liked by the other queens. Lol at Fame ripping up her newspaper after her entrance. But Max was a solid actress and brought high fashion runways - her Fall look, her Jetset Eleganza, her bearded look, the cut-out heart in a box. The crutches Nude Illusion was creative too. Her Spring look was shoddy though. But yeah, Max benefited from Season 7 having so many acting challenges. She had the exaggerated oxygen mask bit in the Rusical. She 100% deserved that win for playing Juliet in "ShakesQueer". She played off of Pearl well in the awards show. Even her bizarre Merle Ginsberg impersonation was funny. Max also promoted positive energy. She got read for wearing grey wigs all the time (c'mon it's her style!), and she disliked vulgarity (lol). But then the Snatch Game came up, and she tried to play a "Disney version" of Sh*rn N**dles which bombed (like that confusing "temper tantrums" answer). Then during the judge's critiques, she needed to loosen to corset to breathe and sang to relax... and the shady producers made her look like an attention-seeker. 5. Pearl I love Pearl, but her making finale is questionable. She's a classic 4th boot archetype. She entered with the chinstrap and labelled herself as a "robotic Stepford Wife bitch", which is accurate. She had a lot of white/beige runways, usually in a lingerie style, or with a "diaper" on. I was into her Spring look cuz it was fresh. But her headphones Fall look and her devil Bearded and Beautiful look were my faves. And I think her Makeover win was earned. However Pearl was often flat as a pancake in the acting challenges. Her "ShakesQueer" character was confusing. Her singing was awful. She looked lost in the "Poo" skit. And her intense lip syncs were probably Sashay-worthy. But she surprised everyone by being the funniest in the award show. Her Big Ang in Snatch Game was underrated. And she had fun with the dancing duets, bad twerking aside. Otherwise, Pearl was known for her chill attitude. She was definitely annoyed at people - she had to withstand so much s**t from the judges and her fellow queens - but she never raised her voice. She came off personable and mostly reasonable. Obviously her most remembered moment is her stand-off with Ru ("Is there something on my face") and walking out of the Werk Room. She knew the show was a sham and Ru was fake, so she didn't give a f**k. 4. Miss Fame Fame started off as a contender - she had the spiky alien entrance, she had the best Spring look, and the second best Fall look. She could've won that first episode. And she continued to be a top runway queen (Death Becomes Her was my fave). But Season 7 had so many acting challenges, and Fame lacked performance experience. She was stiff in the Rusical, she was the worst on the winning team for "ShakesQueer", she insisted on doing Donatella Versace in Snatch Game and did nothing with the character. She had to work with Pearl 4 times, and Violet 3 times; AKA the bad acting trio. She also gave a very subpar lip sync against Pearl. Production probably wanted them to be bottom 2 for the storyline. Pearl was Fame's arch nemesis. She didn't respect Pearl's chill attitude and acted cold towards her. It felt unwarranted and Fame harped on it too much. Fame was too dismissive and serious; and overly bossy in team challenges. She wasn't fond of Jasmine "giving up" either ("Nobody wants to pop the corn"). Still, Fame was there for Katya, she was Violet's only friend at one point, the chicken farm thing was funny, and she was emotional. Like about her grandfather, her breakdown during rehearsal, or crying over Ginger's video message. Fame's thing was that she couldn't stop talking. And she kept missing the "how's your head" joke. Her random obsession with Pearl is the only reason I don't rank her higher. 3. Kennedy Davenport "The struggle is real". Kennedy slayed the comedy challenges, but she was so condescending towards the younger queens, with no respect for what they do. Like in this disdainful, sour, "I'm tired of them" way. It's like she always had a problem with Pearl or Violet, culminating in that Final 4 episode. She criticized Pearl's runways. She said Violet was too young for the crown. She was also a terrible team leader for "ShakesQueer"; miscasting roles, dismissing Violet's request to practice, then blaming her on Untucked. But anyways, Kennedy's best competition moments are: her wings in the Nude Illusion, her "I Got Paid" character, the wall clock joke in the award show, her Little Richard in Snatch Game, and getting violent with Katya in the John Waters film. As well as giving the best lip sync of the season to "Roar". I think she did better than Pearl in the F4 challenge too. But Kennedy's misfires were the Rusical (messy), the bearded look, the infamous chicken outfit (including her explanation of it LOL), and being the worst in the Hello Kitty Ball. Meanwhile, my fave looks were Leather and Lace, the green theme, and the F4 pride dress. But at least Kennedy was more unapologetic about not liking people than Ginger was. And Kennedy is just naturally funny. 2. Jaidynn Diore Fierce "No ma'am, no ham, no pam, no cauliflower, no corn bread, no green beans!" I just loved Jaidynn's energy. She was so genuine and heartfelt, giving hashtags along the way. She just wanted her family to accept her. She gave her best, even if she often struggled in rehearsals ("I FORGOT MY LINE"). Despite her bad knee, she still gave a funny (albeit a little messy) sexual performance in the Rusical. She broke down during "ShakesQueer", but I thought she did good in the end. She should've won the music video challenge - her Bianca impersonation was spot on. But she couldn't recover a third time when playing RuPaul (they didn't have a better take?). It did lead to Jaidynn giving a classic lip sync performance to "Break Free" though, and being the one to finally send Kandy Ho packing. Her barbed wire look was fun too, despite what the judges said. Her Raven-Symone in Snatch Game was "one note", but she had more laughs than Fame and Max. The Makeover is what ultimately ended Jaidynn's game - but Tempest was difficult to match with. The execution didn't really work. 1. Katya The best narrator in the show's herstory? Katya is who I wanted to win this season, and she probably had a good shot it weren't for Kennedy's impressive lip sync. Sure she had that early hiccup in the Rusical, where she completely bombed the lip sync. But she had super solid track record afterwards. She was funny in every comedy challenge - the tanning lady, her acceptance speech (which was the best one), playing Merle Ginsberg, Suze Orman in Snatch Game, the Conjoined Twins characters, her character in the John Waters film. She was also the best on the losing team in "ShakesQueer". And sure, she had the worst Hello Kitty look, but her dialogue in the first part was my favourite. Katya also delivered on the runway - the Abe Lincoln look, the green dress stomp, the shark on her leg. I liked all 3 of her premiere looks too. She also fought for her spot in that first lip sync with the jump splits and slow splits. Otherwise, Katya had this intense way of talking to emphasize things. She battled anxiety and her sobriety. She was very candid. She was naturally funny both with words and goofball body movements. The Russian thing is her brand. And she never came off malicious. Favourite entrance: Violet Chachki Challenge ranking: 1. Snatch Game 2. RuPaul music video parodies (Singing) 3. DESPY Award presentations 4. "Glamazonian Airways" (Rusical) 5. John Waters film parodies (Acting? Singing?) 6. Hello Kitty Ball 7. "ShakesQueer" (Acting) 8. "Conjoined Twins" Makeover 9. "Born Naked" Music Video 10. Half-man/Half-woman dancing (Choreo) 11. "Whatever Happened to Merle Ginsberg" (Acting) 12. Nude Illusion tearaway Lip Sync ranking: 1. Katya vs Kennedy Davenport ("Roar") 2. Jaidynn Diore Fierce vs Kandy Ho ("Break Free") 3. Kandy Ho vs Mrs. Kasha Davis ("Lovergirl") 4. Katya vs Sasha Belle ("Twist of Fate") 5. Jaidynn Diore Fierce vs Max ("No More Lies") 6. Ginger Minj vs Trixie Mattel ("Show Me Love") 7. Ginger Minj vs Jaidynn Diore Fierce ("I Think We're Alone Now") 8. Jasmine Masters vs Kennedy Davenport ("I Was Gonna Cancel") 9. Pearl vs Trixie Mattel ("Dreaming") 10. Kandy Ho vs Tempest DuJour ("Geronimo") 11. Top 4 Lip Sync ("Born Naked") 12. Miss Fame vs Pearl ("Really Don't Care") Season ranking so far: 5 > 6 > 4 > 2 > 7 > 3 > 1 > AS1

[icarus-suraki]

Please note that there are some minor differences between the recording above and the published poem below.

America Allen Ginsberg

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.

America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.   

I can’t stand my own mind.

America when will we end the human war?

Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

I don’t feel good don’t bother me.

I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.

America when will you be angelic?

When will you take off your clothes?

When will you look at yourself through the grave?

When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?

America why are your libraries full of tears?

America when will you send your eggs to India?

I’m sick of your insane demands.

When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?

America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.   

Your machinery is too much for me.

You made me want to be a saint.

There must be some other way to settle this argument.   

Burroughs is in Tangiers I don’t think he’ll come back it’s sinister.   

Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?   

I’m trying to come to the point.

I refuse to give up my obsession.

America stop pushing I know what I’m doing.

America the plum blossoms are falling.

I haven’t read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for murder.

America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I’m not sorry.   

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.   

When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.   

My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble.

You should have seen me reading Marx.

My psychoanalyst thinks I’m perfectly right.

I won’t say the Lord’s Prayer.

I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.

America I still haven’t told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over from Russia.

I’m addressing you.

Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?   

I’m obsessed by Time Magazine.

I read it every week.

Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.   

I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.

It’s always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody’s serious but me.   

It occurs to me that I am America.

I am talking to myself again.

Asia is rising against me.

I haven’t got a chinaman’s chance.

I’d better consider my national resources.

My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that jetplanes 1400 miles an hour and twentyfive-thousand mental institutions.

I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underprivileged who live in my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.

I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.

My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I’m a Catholic.

America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his automobiles more so they’re all different sexes.

America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe

America free Tom Mooney

America save the Spanish Loyalists

America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die

America I am the Scottsboro boys.

America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother Bloor the Silk-strikers’ Ewig-Weibliche made me cry I once saw the Yiddish orator Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have been a spy.

America you don’t really want to go to war.

America its them bad Russians.

Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.   

The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia’s power mad. She wants to take our cars from out our garages.

Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader’s Digest. Her wants our auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.

That no good. Ugh. Him make Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers. Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.   

America this is quite serious.

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.   

America is this correct?

I’d better get right down to the job.

It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.

America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

A class is reading The Great Gatsby, that perennial high school favorite, and the students each have to do a short presentation on something else that was going on in the 1920s. A student was talking to me about it and listing off some of the topics.

One of the topics is Sacco and Vanzetti. And the tiny Allen Ginsberg who lives in my brain called out through my mouth,

America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die

So then I had twice as much to explain to this poor student, alongside Charles Lindbergh and his flight across the Atlantic and then the mysterious kidnap and murder of the Lindberg Baby.

But my point is that I need to go listen to America again, today in particular. And I really ought to remember

America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

[lovethatlaiduslow]

drawn to the blood- sufjan stevens, war pieta- max ginsberg