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  • September 29, 2016 at 1:52 pm #54115
    wv
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    Just a quote by Chris Hedges, fwiw:

    “Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes.
    Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on all of us. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good by the good. This is the secret of hope’s power. Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.”
    ― Chris Hedges

    September 30, 2016 at 8:21 pm #54162
    TSRF
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    “Love Interruption”

    I want love to: roll me over slowly,
    Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.
    I want love to: grab my fingers gently,
    Slam them in a doorway, Put my face into the ground.
    I want love to: murder my own mother,
    Take her off to somewhere, like hell, or up above.
    And I want love to: change my friends to enemies,
    Change my friends to enemies, and show me how it’s all my fault.

    And I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
    I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
    Yeah I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me, anymore.

    I want love to: walk right up and bite me,
    Grab a hold of me and fight me, leave me dying on the ground.
    I want love to: split my mouth wide open,
    And cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound
    I want love to: forget that you offended me,
    Or how you have defended me when everybody tore me down
    Yeah and I want love to: change my friends to enemies,
    Change my friends to enemies, and show me how it’s all my fault.

    Yeah I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
    I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
    Yeah I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me, anymore.

    –Jack White

    September 30, 2016 at 9:00 pm #54166
    wv
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    ….what does that MEAN ??

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    October 1, 2016 at 11:21 pm #54247
    TSRF
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    I think Jack was having woman problems when he wrote “Love Interruption”. It was his first single on his first solo album in 2012. By 2013, he was divorced from his second wife.

    When I read the Hope quote, “Blunderbuss” was playing in the background, and “Love Interruption” struck me as an anti-resonant thought tunnel.

    So I don’t know what the fuck it MEANS…

    October 2, 2016 at 8:08 am #54256
    wv
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    TSRF wrote:

    I think Jack was having woman problems when he wrote “Love Interruption”. It was his first single on his first solo album in 2012. By 2013, he was divorced from his second wife.

    When I read the Hope quote, “Blunderbuss” was playing in the background, and “Love Interruption” struck me as an anti-resonant thought tunnel.

    So I don’t know what the fuck it MEANS…

    ——————-

    Let’s beat it with a hose,
    and find out what it means.

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    INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
    by Billy Collins

    I ask them to take a poem
    and hold it up to the light
    like a color slide

    or press an ear against its hive.

    I say drop a mouse into a poem
    and watch him probe his way out,

    or walk inside the poem’s room
    and feel the walls for a light switch.
    I want them to waterski
    across the surface of a poem
    waving at the author’s name on the shore.

    But all they want to do
    is tie the poem to a chair with rope
    and torture a confession out of it.

    They begin beating it with a hose
    to find out what it really means.
    ——————

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