To find this on my door this morning!
By a Mysterious Guest Artist!
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
I Am Totally Blown Away
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Death of a Sparrow
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
This got me out of a few black hours. To see it full size, right click and choose view image.
Looking
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Mary’s Question
Monday, May 4th, 2009
What sadness in eternity made them grow thorns?
Me and Chavez
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Hugo Chavez gave Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of a Continent”. It immediately shot up to number 2 on Amazon.
Curious as to how often the U.S. invades (oops, I mean “intervenes”) in Latin America? History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America lists over 50. That’s once every two or three years. This list is not complete. Maybe we were fighting Communism? Nah! As you can see at another List of U.S. Interventions in Latin America, we’ve been doing it since before Communism was invented.
Here is a poem of Galeano’s that I love. (Apologies for any mistakes in the Spanish.)
Cultura del Miedo
Si haces el amor, tendras SIDA
Si fumas, tendras cancer
Si comes tendras colesterol
Si bebes, tendras accidentes
Si respiras, tendras contaminacion
Si caminas, tendras violencia
Si lees, tendras confusion
Si piensas, tendras anustia
Si sientes, tendras lcura
Si hablas, perderas el empleo
Culture of Fear
If you make love, you’ll get AIDS
If you smoke, you’ll get cancer
If you eat, you’ll get colesterol
If you drink, you’ll get into accidents
If you walk, you’ll get mugged
If you read, you’ll get confused
If you think, you’ll get depressed
If you feel, you’ll go crazy
If you talk, you’ll lose your job
Welcome, Pilgrim.
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Greetings, pilgrim, and welcome to my Blog of Toons, a home for toons. My toons, my friends’ toons, toons I love and perhaps even toons I hate. Toons can go anywhere. You want quantum mechanics? daily life? coming of age? political fury? cute little furry animals pursuing their sexual delight? history? civilization? Toons can do it all. Toons reach deep into our psyches and our culture. You’ve heard of John Q. Public? A toon. Maybe you’ve heard of an infamous stain on American history, McCarthyism? The term was coined in a cartoon by the great Herbert Block. “We have met the enemy and he is us.” A toon again, by the great Walt Kelly. Maybe your district was gerrymandered? The word itself comes from a cartoon. Or consider, for example, Paul Revere, he of the famous midnight ride. One if by land, two if by sea. “The British are coming! The British are coming!” If you know a little more about him, you know he was a silversmith. But did you know he was also a political cartoonist? And speaking of political cartoonists, did you know that Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist?
We will meet some of this rogues’ gallery, for rogues we are. We are cartoonists!
And so, I open this blog with my homage to Second Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay.