image link Try to explain to a child the taint in the water when, by its very nature, the child will have no capacity to understand. Try to explain to a parent how a system expects her to accept their choice to cut the children of Flint in half. Try to explain to the public…
Category: politics
Poetry Day 28 — Splitting Herrs
image link Today’s prompt is “Split in Two”, with… a dilemma. A split path. A difficult choice. Maybe even a chasm or schism… the notion of ‘splitting hairs’… The suggested form is the “Anglo-Saxon Riddle”. In a way today’s offering covers those bases but not exactly. It is indeed *about* an Anglo-Saxon riddle and it…
Cheeto
image link blubbered lips, invisible hips, hands built on a model of Ken’s* privileged perspectives, racist directives, capitalist common sense spill oil on pristeen, frack gas from the clean, “nature’s my b****, are you dense?” plant factoids with mimes in impressionable minds, chasm grows – there is no more fence. Word of the Day…
The Missing Images of Chinese Immigrants — The Paris Review
The Paris Review always has interesting, thought-provoking articles. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen the term whitewashing used this way; the term certainly fits. One of the beauties of the electronic age is that anyone with access to it HAS A VOICE. There will be no more whitewashing for those with eyes to see!…
Day 2 — Jimmy*
image link I worked for many years in the juvenile court. Jimmy is a composite. The worker may leave the job, but the children will never leave the worker. Tanka: An unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7. Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and…
Ai Weiwei: K’un, the great fish
Ellen Goodman interview of Ai Weiwei, including early life and going up to the present: Exhibition now showing in L.A.: Exhibition now showing in L.A. 9/27/18 L.A. Times article on Ai Weiwei’s exhibition now showing in L.A. Ai Weiwei drifting – art, awareness and the refugee crisis | DW Documentary: K’un, languidly…
Zero
image link Word of the Day Challenge — rubric BILL COSBY INITIAL PRISON THERAPY RUBRIC Date: ASAP Quarterly Updates for the Next ____Years Report #: 1 OBJECTIVE EXCELLENT 2 pts. COMPETENT 1 pt. NEEDS WORK 0 pts. SCORE Knowledge/ Understanding 20% I understand that my cycle of drugging then sexually victimizing others is wrong and…
