The food line outside my window last week.
the language of fasting
chants with hungry tongues
raw shadows eating
the wind
drunk on the bitter beauty
of never
why do we worship men
who fiddle with words
as need burns?
K.
lines that aim to be
The food line outside my window last week.
the language of fasting
chants with hungry tongues
raw shadows eating
the wind
drunk on the bitter beauty
of never
why do we worship men
who fiddle with words
as need burns?
K. 
Why indeed? Is it congenital stupidity?
This is the third reference to Nero and his fiddle I’ve read in the last week. I wonder if it’s a general feeling about leaders and their inability to do what needs to be done.
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They don’t seem to care either–it’s more than ineptitude.
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And the Nazis thought the world was decadent…
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New heights (or perhaps depths is the better word)
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We have reasons for Nazism. Why the Germans voted for Hitler. Maybe in about 50 years historians will have found out why Trump.
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There is a lot of fear fed with ignorance. I suppose that’s always the case. But schools don’t teach anything beyond what will produce high test scores (or large profits) any more either. A democracy can’t exist without a truly educated population.
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I think that’s true everywhere. ‘Education’ went out with the Industrial Revolution. Only the rich ever got one, and when school became compulsory it wasn’t to teach kids what the rich would consider education, just how to sit still and take orders.
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So sad. Why indeed? The Oracle knows what’s happening, I just wish she could help.
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She is talking…but there needs to be listening and acting.
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Yes.
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