“But better, for the sake of conscience and country, to speak loudly and volubly than to remain silent or noncommittal.”
Barton Swain (WSJ)
~~~~ ~
the external outlier of voluble,
the extreme wings of hatred;
the
surround~sounding of the screams of silence
of the average, the median,
the susceptible
who know not history |
except when knotted |with the
sugary irrational lies that defy lunacy|
by going along to be along|
how does one combat lunacy?
not putting the inmates in charge
of the chic,
the blinded eye of universities,
controverting
covering your lying eyes
with glue;
calling black white,
coating white hot honed truths
with
slicks and licks of oily
irrational
why write poetry?
to ask the eyes to see?
the ears to hear?
to trust your senses?
perhaps it is
but, an only,
my
way
when the opposition of truth
is so tasty
this is
my
louder,
this is
my
voluble dial
at the max;
read it and weep!
right
beside me
May 18
May 18, 2026 at 9:27 AM UTC
“But better, for the sake of conscience and country, to speak loudly and volubly than to remain silent or noncommittal.”
Barton Swain (WSJ)
~~~~ ~
the external outlier of voluble,
the extreme wings of hatred;
the
surround~sounding of the screams of silence
of the average, the median,
the susceptible
who know not history |
except when knotted |with the
sugary irrational lies that defy lunacy|
by going along to be along|
how does one combat lunacy?
not putting the inmates in charge
of the chic,
the blinded eye of universities,
controverting
covering your lying eyes
with glue;
calling black white,
coating white hot honed truths
with
slicks and licks of oily
irrational
why write poetry?
to ask the eyes to see?
the ears to hear?
to trust your senses?
perhaps it is
but, an only,
my
way
when the opposition of truth
is so tasty
this is
my
louder,
this is
my
voluble dial
at the max;
read it and weep!
right
beside me
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——
Lippstadt II Concentration Camp: In the summer of 1944, a women's sub-camp of Buchenwald was established in Lippstadt. The prisoners, primarily Hungarian Jewish women deported from Auschwitz, were forced to perform grueling labor in the local armaments industry (Westfälische Metallindustrie).
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