Forgetting is So Long

& Maybe soon the dreaming.
& maybe soon we'll walk again you and I on all those forgotten pebbly lakeshores in the last days of August.

It's the last days of August and I'm afraid of November.

It's the last night of the world, huddle close for warmth,
I want to hear violins mourning dying stars.

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My brain today is a lizard dying by the side of a highway. I cannot form a coherent thought. (What are your much-vaunted thoughts anyway? Motion, electrical and chemical, storms in a sea, seen by none).

I wanted to say something like that to the woman last night expounding Romatick and philosophical cetera, instead I said something else and used the word "proletariat." I was right to use it, she wanted to "manage" "nature. Where do you get off managing anything, or stewarding it for that matter--a 4 billion year old system of life? And what is nature, nothing, nowhere, I hate the word and the idea, it is as destructive of thought as the forty-seven drinks I seem to have had last night.

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Things to keep our eyes on:

• Bolivia

• Lebanon

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Lebanon: I recall, during the 34-day-war in 2006, reading an "article" in the Post-Gazette placed there by some pro-Israel organization. I remember little specifically except the rage I felt in response. Its most egregious claims, I recall, were claiming there is no occupation in Palestine and translating Hezbollah "Army of God." Army of God would, if the Arabic I've pieced together from the Associated Press is correct, be Jaish Allah; Hezbollah, Hiz'b Allah, is Party of God.

It pissed me the fuck off, and is emblematic of how ridiculously distorted American reporting of anything happening in the Middle East is.

Things to watch for: Demonization of Nasrallah; constant invocation of Hezbollah's Syrian and Iranian backing without any context (eg. American backing of the Mujahidin e-Khalq & the fact that the US and Iran are basically already at war and have been for some time).

My favorite source: Robert Fisk.

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Bolivia: To me one of the funniest parts of the whole autonomy thing is the guy that has dual Bolivian-American citizenship and is a large landholder in, of course, Montana -- that bastion of American individualism and libertarianism -- demonstrating once again what wealthy property-owners mean when they say the word "freedom."

Things to watch for: Morales as dictator; Morales as a lackey for Chavez (who is also a dictator) (and supports terrorists) (unlike the US) (and you know that's true cause the fucking Wall Street Journal said so); note that Morales is the first Indian president of an Indian-majority country occurring at the end of the article if at all; portrayal of Autonomists as rebels or freedom-fighters resisting land-grabbing communists, instead of white-supremacists fuckwads.

My favorite source: Machetera.

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Well, this bit of rambling went to a more political place than I intended.

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I am tired and we leave for the Forest in a few hours. But do not worry: We will meet again, once more, before the End.