They Feed They Lion By Philip Levine
``` Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter,
Out of black bean and wet slate bread,
Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar,
Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies,
They Lion grow.
Out of the gray hills
Of industrial barns, out of rain, out of bus ride,
West Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties,
Mothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps,
Out of the bones’ need to sharpen and the muscles’ to stretch,
They Lion grow.
Earth is eating trees, fence posts,
Gutted cars, earth is calling in her little ones,
“Come home, Come home!” From pig balls,
From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness,
From the furred ear and the full jowl come
The repose of the hung belly, from the purpose
They Lion grow.
From the sweet glues of the trotters
Come the sweet kinks of the fist, from the full flower
Of the hams the thorax of caves,
From “Bow Down” come “Rise Up,”
Come they Lion from the reeds of shovels,
The grained arm that pulls the hands,
They Lion grow.
From my five arms and all my hands,
From all my white sins forgiven, they feed,
From my car passing under the stars,
They Lion, from my children inherit,
From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion,
From they sack and they belly opened
And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth
They feed they Lion and he comes.
```
Give me my f****** nun costume back. You know who you are.
I lived in an area that had a huge logging industry that eventually became one dude, one machine, and truck that comes and hauls them off to the port. But I was there just after the full mechanization and automation of the industry. So the old timers were still around.
And a lot of those dudes were named things like "three fingered Jack" and "one armed Rick" and "Lefty" ... all from industrial logging accidents for a village of like 500 people.
I still have no idea how these communities are set up structurally. That said I'm quite pleased to see this as the community baseline. Stumbling into inclusivity is the best kind of stumbling.
especially if it is a fetus and not a baby
This poem still chokes me up. It makes me think both literally and figuratively about the paths my sister and "sisters" made for me, making ...
Elder Sister by Sharon Olds from In The Dead and the Living: Poems by Sharon Olds. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
I am a grown up. But I have little tolerance for corporate cheerleaders of any shape or sound.
I see.
We are at fault for youtube giving shit away for free. We are responsible for youtube's profits.
We not only need to offer content FOR FREE to youtube ... but then accept that we must pay youtube for our content.
Get fucked.
A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay
Is that Eric Garner worked
for some time for the Parks and Rec.
Horticultural Department, which means,
perhaps, that with his very large hands,
perhaps, in all likelihood,
he put gently into the earth
some plants which, most likely,
some of them, in all likelihood,
continue to grow, continue
to do what such plants do, like house
and feed small and necessary creatures,
like being pleasant to touch and smell,
like converting sunlight
into food, like making it easier
for us to breathe.
Freshman English - Adrian Mitchell Fifteen Million Plastic Bags: Poetry that can inspire you, study aids for coursework and rhymes you remember from your childhood.
People smiled with their eyes so much more during the COVIDs.
It is obvious when someone with a mask on is smiling.
I would be fine with a slot for my debit card and a huge BOOST BUTTON that cost like a dime to use for 10 s3conds.
Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions...
Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad is certainly a translation to read, but likely not the first one to read. His preface is a joy for fans of Homer, though.
Julito McCullum, who played Namond Brice on The Wire, has put out a video of him receiving $10.80 for DVD sales of the show.
I just finished Pope's translation of The Iliad. I found it very tight to Homer's ancient Greek of the five translations I have read. That said I did not enjoy the Romanization of the Greek gods' names.
"Like an adult"
An adult does not let their tools control them. And I receive one good call for every ten my phone gets.
That is really interesting news. I would like to learn more about the reporting function and any protections the workers get from reporting their bosses.
Because in the USA the police murder peoples that go at the rich.
Because it causes engineering overhead that perhaps no one there wants to do. And when reddit gets its IPO it will no longer give a hoot and an half about the "average redditor" because profit suddenly becomes the only thing that matters to shareholderds.
What I am saying is that the visibility that coins make is prolly not inline with the people that want to use reddit to push products, shows, and ideologies for profit.
It is just about control.
I think that reddit's "going public" guru squad doesn't want redditors to be able to have any control on what content is pushed to the top of the queue. That is just a guess, though.
An essay about the development of Homeric studies and Milman Parry.
How do different parts of contemporary/modern European nation/state relate to Homer ? One novel would like to add to the discourse.
In the recent poll prompted by Dio Chrysostom’s anecdote of Philip asking which hero Alexander would be, Odysseus won by a bit of a landslide. I can’t say this completely surprises me, …
As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.
Nathaniel Schmidt, Bellerophon's Tablet and the Homeric Question in the Light of Oriental Research, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 51 (1920), pp. 56-70
There is just one moment in the Iliad that writing or a hint of what writing was mentioned, and it is a direct reference to the ancient Greek hero Bellerophon's tales. How does this relate to the Homeric Question ?