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They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine

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.

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Third Teen Worker Killed In Industrial Accident As States Try To Loosen Child Labor Laws
  • 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.

  • The transphobia stops now
  • 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.

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    Elder Sister by Sharon Olds
    robinsliceoflife.blogspot.com Sharon Olds, "Elder Sister"

    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.

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    Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
  • 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.

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    A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay

    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.

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    Fifteen Million Plastic Bags by Adrian Mitchell
    www.oatridge.com Words to the poem Fifteen Million Plastic Bags by Adrian Mitchell

    Freshman English - Adrian Mitchell Fifteen Million Plastic Bags: Poetry that can inspire you, study aids for coursework and rhymes you remember from your childhood.

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    Homer: A Home For The Epic Poet @reddthat.com ConfirmingMoose @reddthat.com
    Preface to The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope
    www.poetryfoundation.org Preface to The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope | Poetry Foundation

    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...

    Preface to The Iliad of Homer by Alexander Pope | Poetry Foundation

    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.

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    The Iliad translated by Alexander Pope

    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.

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    Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards
  • 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.

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    How a Bold Young American Changed the Way Scholars Think About Homer

    An essay about the development of Homeric studies and Milman Parry.

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    "Balkanizing Homer: An Albanian novel raises questions about the Greek epics." --March 1, 1998, The New York Times Books

    How do different parts of contemporary/modern European nation/state relate to Homer ? One novel would like to add to the discourse.

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    Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him.
    sententiaeantiquae.com Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him

    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, …

    Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him

    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.

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    Bellerophon's Tablet and the Homeric Question in the Light of Oriental Research.
    www.jstor.org Bellerophon's Tablet and the Homeric Question in the Light of Oriental Research on JSTOR

    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 ?

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