Charles Baudelaire.(1821-1867) Condemned Women (Femmes Dmnees) Imitated from the French - Fragment

Like moody beasts they lie along the sands;

Look where the sky against the sea-rim clings:

Foot stretches out to foot, and groping hands

Have languors soft and bitter shudderings.


Some, smitten hearts with the long secrecies,

On velvet moss, deep in the bowers' ease,

Prattling the love of timid infancies,

Are tearing the green bark from the young trees.


Others, like sisters slowly walk and grave;

By rocks that swarm with ghostly legions,

Where anthony saw surging on the waves

The purple breasts of his temptations.


-tr. John Gray, Silverpoints (1893)

* The title of this poem is often translated as "Lesbians"

I saw a new better TV at the donut shop with a science channel so.

Maybe the world is getting better.

Also pulling out of Afghanistan means money and energy freed up for making a difference in the war on terrorism with out using outdated models of dealing with confict and social problems.  I say this because the super violence we are capable of is very different then the Korean War for example.  As times change we adapt so human rights violations are not commited.  Learning with a more complex understanding of what is meant by modern military equipment is helpful.  Doing good in war torn countries should be natural.  I am for a better world.  Lets do it.

It seems so but no no no

I have that right to walk away

To do what I want

As my life is my own

I am no animal

Leave me alone.

This is real life not a video game. No rioting.

I would rather an earthquake happened.  Selfish, crazy, and now the mess is really a year or more to heal, including police who are people, have families and are connected by degrees just like the entire bay area is.  The ptsd is already a reality.  You guys got to chill out.