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Tokyo Scene 23 | Dream of spring: photo by Lucky Bird, 21 April 2018
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Tokyo Scene 23 | Dream of spring: photo by Lucky Bird, 21 April 2018
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Tokyo Scene 20 | Loser's tear of Kendo tournament. Kendo is the Japanese martial art of fencing.: photo by Lucky Bird, 4 April 2018
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Tokyo Scene 22 | Old friends: photo by Lucky Bird, 19 April 2018
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Tokyo Scene 22 | Old friends: photo by Lucky Bird, 19 April 2018
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Tokyo Scene 22 | Old friends: photo by Lucky Bird, 19 April 2018
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Something to die is beautiful.: photo by Lucky Bird, 28 February 2018
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Something to die is beautiful.: photo by Lucky Bird, 28 February 2018
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Something to die is beautiful.: photo by Lucky Bird, 28 February 2018
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Ionia Free Fair, 1974 [Ionia, Michigan]: photo by Joey Harrison, August 1974
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Ionia Free Fair, 1974 [Ionia, Michigan]: photo by Joey Harrison, August 1974
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Mexico City: photo by Joey Harrison,February 2017
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![Inspector General of Royal Malaysian Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun shows off two images of suspects of killing of a Palestinian man during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations. (AP Photo)]()
![Inspector General of Royal Malaysian Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun, right, shows off two images of suspects of killing of a Palestinian man during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations. At left is Deputy Inspector General of Police Noor Rashid Ibrahim. (AP Photo)]()
![Relatives of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh walk out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)]()
![Enaas al-Batsh, right, wife of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, walks out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)]()
Enaas al-Batsh, right, wife of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, walks out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations.: photo by Sadiq Asyraf/AP, 23 April 2018
![Enaas al-Batsh, right, wife of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, walks out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)]()
Enaas al-Batsh, right, wife of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, walks out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations.: photo by Sadiq Asyraf/AP, 23 April 2018
![A composite image of a suspect of killing of a Palestinian man is shown by Malaysian national police during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police released Monday composite images of two suspects who gunned down 34-year-old Palestinian engineer Fadi al-Batsh and are stepping up efforts to track them. Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group accused Israel of being behind Saturday’s killing of al-Batsh, an important member of Hamas. (AP Photo)]()
Malaysia releases images of suspects in Palestinian killing: Associated Press, 23 April 2018
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police on Monday released images of two suspects in the killing of a Palestinian engineer and said they appeared to be European or Middle Eastern, fueling suspicion that the slaying was an Israeli assassination.
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#Malaysia:Students of Dr. Fadi Albatsh crying after seeing remains of their lecturer at Malaysian hospital. Dr. Fadi was killed by unidentified assassins shooting last Saturday early morning.: image via mohammed mosleh @MohammedMusle18, 23 April 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
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#Malaysia:Students of Dr. Fadi Albatsh crying after seeing remains of their lecturer at Malaysian hospital. Dr. Fadi was killed by unidentified assassins shooting last Saturday early morning.: image via mohammed mosleh @MohammedMusle18, 23 April 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
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#NIC Shop keepers get ready to defend from looters amid Nicaragua's turmoil @AFPphoto by Rodrigo Arangua: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
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#NIC rioting students vow to keep up street protests until President Ortega is ousted. @AFPphoto by @intiocon: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
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Police tape blocks off the Waffle House restaurant Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee.: photo byMark Humphrey/AP, 22 April 2018
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At least 9 people killed in terror attack, #Toronto andIt's cultural suicide to import millions of people without background checks (at the least!) Who is doing this to the West?: image via Rational Gent @RationalGent, 2 April 2018
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Oswald Spengler: Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West), first edition cover: C.H. Beck Verlag, München, 1922: image by Perceval, 2005
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P1070294 [Paris]: photo by Pierre Wayser, 14 October 2007
Tokyo Scene 23 | Dream of spring: photo by Lucky Bird, 21 April 2018
Tokyo Scene 23 | Dream of spring: photo by Lucky Bird, 21 April 2018
Tokyo Scene 23 | Dream of spring: photo by Lucky Bird, 21 April 2018
Tokyo Scene 20 | Loser's tear of Kendo tournament. Kendo is the Japanese martial art of fencing.: photo by Lucky Bird, 4 April 2018
Tokyo Scene 22 | Old friends: photo by Lucky Bird, 19 April 2018
Tokyo Scene 22 | Old friends: photo by Lucky Bird, 19 April 2018
Tokyo Scene 22 | Old friends: photo by Lucky Bird, 19 April 2018
Something to die is beautiful.: photo by Lucky Bird, 28 February 2018
Something to die is beautiful.: photo by Lucky Bird, 28 February 2018
Something to die is beautiful.: photo by Lucky Bird, 28 February 2018
Tokyo - Shibuya: photo by Bananocrate, 7 February 2017
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Kentucky State Fair: photo by Joey Harrison, August 2017
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Goldenrod (Solidago graminifolia): photo by Adamantios, 2007
William Carlos Williams: To Elsie
Goldenrod (Solidago graminifolia): photo by Adamantios, 2007
The pure products of America
go crazy --
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves
old names
and promiscuity between
devil-may-care men who have taken
to railroading
out of sheer lust of adventure --
and young slatterns, bathed
in filth
from Monday to Saturday
to be tricked out that night
with gauds
from imaginations which have no
peasant traditions to give them
character
but flutter and flaunt
sheer rags succumbing without
emotion
save numbed terror
under some hedge of choke-cherry
or viburnum --
which they cannot express --
Unless it be that marriage
perhaps
with a dash of Indian blood
will throw up a girl so desolate
so hemmed round
with disease or murder
that she'll be rescued by an
agent --
reared by the state and
sent out at fifteen to work in
some hard-pressed
house in the suburbs --
some doctor's family, some Elsie
voluptuous water
expressing with broken
brain the truth about us --
her great
ungainly hips and flopping breasts
addressed to cheap
jewelry
and rich young men with fine eyes
as if the earth under our feet
were
an excrement of some sky
and we degraded prisoners
destined
to hunger until we eat filth
while the imagination strains
after deer
going by fields of goldenrod in
the stifling heat of September
somehow
it seems to destroy us
It is only in isolate flecks that
something
is given off
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): To Elsie ("The pure products of America"), from Spring and All (1923)
go crazy --
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves
old names
and promiscuity between
devil-may-care men who have taken
to railroading
out of sheer lust of adventure --
and young slatterns, bathed
in filth
from Monday to Saturday
to be tricked out that night
with gauds
from imaginations which have no
peasant traditions to give them
character
but flutter and flaunt
sheer rags succumbing without
emotion
save numbed terror
under some hedge of choke-cherry
or viburnum --
which they cannot express --
Unless it be that marriage
perhaps
with a dash of Indian blood
will throw up a girl so desolate
so hemmed round
with disease or murder
that she'll be rescued by an
agent --
reared by the state and
sent out at fifteen to work in
some hard-pressed
house in the suburbs --
some doctor's family, some Elsie
voluptuous water
expressing with broken
brain the truth about us --
her great
ungainly hips and flopping breasts
addressed to cheap
jewelry
and rich young men with fine eyes
as if the earth under our feet
were
an excrement of some sky
and we degraded prisoners
destined
to hunger until we eat filth
while the imagination strains
after deer
going by fields of goldenrod in
the stifling heat of September
somehow
it seems to destroy us
It is only in isolate flecks that
something
is given off
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963): To Elsie ("The pure products of America"), from Spring and All (1923)
Ionia Free Fair, 1974 [Ionia, Michigan]: photo by Joey Harrison, August 1974
Ionia Free Fair, 1974 [Ionia, Michigan]: photo by Joey Harrison, August 1974
SDIM5002 [Paris]: photo by Pierre Wayser, 1 June 2008
Untitled: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 13 April 2018
Untitled: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 13 April 2018
Untitled: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 13 April 2018
Negative imagination
I've developed this terrible condition that might be called negative imagination.
When I'm told something has happened somewhere I immediately begin to doubt whether it has actually happened.
And soon enough I find myself working to erase from my mind all traces of having been told whatever it was, and in turn, willy nilly as one might say, to erase from the universe every detail of what has reportedly happened, insofar as these details are known to me, and annoying to me, which is more or less the same thing.
Aloha
I need to apologize, I did something totally inappropriate. I told Anne Waldman you said hi and that you were sorry you couldn’t come see the show. I’m sorry. I had night of the permission nor the authority to express such a message although at the time it felt very innocent.
Not only did she soften her facial expression immediately and express her heartfelt greeting she asked about your health and how both of you were doing. I didn’t think that that was any of her business so I said things were pretty much the same but that you were OK.
Aram Saroyan Was standing next to her and wanted me to say hello to the both of you as well; characterizing himself as a friend from the old days.
So I’m sorry for meddling socially and I hope these greetings or a pleasure to receive. To be honest, most of the evening I was mad at myself for not buying you both tickets and dragging you out to the show but I’m not sure if you would’ve enjoyed that. Maybe next time.
I spent the weekend in Santa Cruz studying with Meredith Monk. As a result I am fairly inspired to set some poetry to music. Maybe we can get together in the next couple of weeks and look at some of your recent poems on the blog.
Jaap was surprisingly brilliant and in particular his lecture and master class were very enjoyable and enlightening.
Clarck Coolidge did a set with Alvin Curran and it was breathtaking. I made a recording of that. And Waldman was also on point. I made a little video I can share with you when I see you next.
Michael McClure was delightful. I had never seen him read life before.
There were four other poets over the course of the week but their work was really terrible so I won’t trash them by name.
When I'm told something has happened somewhere I immediately begin to doubt whether it has actually happened.
And soon enough I find myself working to erase from my mind all traces of having been told whatever it was, and in turn, willy nilly as one might say, to erase from the universe every detail of what has reportedly happened, insofar as these details are known to me, and annoying to me, which is more or less the same thing.
Aloha
I need to apologize, I did something totally inappropriate. I told Anne Waldman you said hi and that you were sorry you couldn’t come see the show. I’m sorry. I had night of the permission nor the authority to express such a message although at the time it felt very innocent.
Not only did she soften her facial expression immediately and express her heartfelt greeting she asked about your health and how both of you were doing. I didn’t think that that was any of her business so I said things were pretty much the same but that you were OK.
Aram Saroyan Was standing next to her and wanted me to say hello to the both of you as well; characterizing himself as a friend from the old days.
So I’m sorry for meddling socially and I hope these greetings or a pleasure to receive. To be honest, most of the evening I was mad at myself for not buying you both tickets and dragging you out to the show but I’m not sure if you would’ve enjoyed that. Maybe next time.
I spent the weekend in Santa Cruz studying with Meredith Monk. As a result I am fairly inspired to set some poetry to music. Maybe we can get together in the next couple of weeks and look at some of your recent poems on the blog.
Jaap was surprisingly brilliant and in particular his lecture and master class were very enjoyable and enlightening.
Clarck Coolidge did a set with Alvin Curran and it was breathtaking. I made a recording of that. And Waldman was also on point. I made a little video I can share with you when I see you next.
Michael McClure was delightful. I had never seen him read life before.
There were four other poets over the course of the week but their work was really terrible so I won’t trash them by name.
Helsinki was ok. The ducks were cool. The geese were mean and annoying. Had to disappear them. (I've developed this terrible condition that might be called negative imagination.)
Angry Arab News Service: Monday, April 23, 2018
This is a regular feature: images of dumb Mossad agents spread minutes after their terrorist crimes
These are the pictures of the dumb Mossad terrorists who killed a Palestinian academic in Malaysia. (Notice that images of dumb Mossad agents now are circulated minutes after their crimes). (Circulate widely).: image via As'ad AbuKhalil / Angry Arab News Service, 23 April 2017
These are the pictures of the dumb Mossad terrorists who killed a Palestinian academic in Malaysia. (Notice that images of dumb Mossad agents now are circulated minutes after their crimes).: image via As'ad AbuKhalil @asadabukhalil 23 April 2017
Relatives of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh walk out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations.: photo by Sadiq Asyraf/AP, 23 April 2018
Enaas al-Batsh, right, wife of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, walks out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations.: photo by Sadiq Asyraf/AP, 23 April 2018
Enaas al-Batsh, right, wife of killed Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh, walks out of a hospital's morgue in Selayang, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police said Sunday that an investigation was underway into the gunning down of the 34-year-old Palestinian al-Batsh a day earlier and gave assurances that security was being beefed up in the country following recent high-profile assassinations.: photo by Sadiq Asyraf/AP, 23 April 2018
A composite image of a suspect of killing of a Palestinian man is shown by Malaysian national police during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, April 23, 2018. Malaysian police released Monday composite images of two suspects who gunned down 34-year-old Palestinian engineer Fadi al-Batsh and are stepping up efforts to track them. Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group accused Israel of being behind Saturday’s killing of al-Batsh, an important member of Hamas.: photo by AP, 23 April 2018
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police on Monday released images of two suspects in the killing of a Palestinian engineer and said they appeared to be European or Middle Eastern, fueling suspicion that the slaying was an Israeli assassination.
Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group has accused Israel of being behind Saturday's shooting of Fadi al-Batsh, an important member of Hamas. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.
Malaysian national police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the composite images were based on eyewitness descriptions. He said the suspects, clad in black jackets, were fair-skinned, well-built and had beards, and were likely European or Middle Eastern.
Fuzi said the images have been displayed at all exit points in the country but said it was unclear if the men had fled Malaysia.
Police said al-Batsh, 34, was hit with 14 bullets by the two assailants, who shot from a motorbike as he was heading to a mosque for dawn prayers in a suburb near Kuala Lumpur. Police said security video showed the suspects had waited for him for almost 20 minutes.
Hamas initially stopped short of blaming Israel, saying only that he had been "assassinated by the hand of treachery." But later its top leader accused Israel's Mossad intelligence agency of killing al-Batsh and threatened retaliation.
A string of Israeli officials have neither confirmed nor denied whether Israel had a hand in the death. Several noted, however, that Israel is routinely blamed for such assassinations even when it is not involved.
Several Israeli Cabinet ministers welcomed the killing, regardless of who was responsible. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested in radio interviews Sunday that al-Batsh may have been killed as part of a rivalry between Palestinian militants.
Israel has a long history of being accused of targeting wanted Palestinian militants in daring overseas operations and has been linked to other assassinations as well, though it has rarely publicly acknowledged them.
Al-Batsh was believed to have been working on Hamas' unmanned aerial vehicle program and was working on improving the accuracy of its rockets.
His brother, Rami, told Malaysian media in Kuala Lumpur that he hopes to take the body back on Tuesday.
Police say al-Batsh had lived in Malaysia for more than seven years and had permanent residency status. He had a degree in electrical engineering and lectured at a local university, but police couldn't confirm reports that he was an expert in rocket making.
Al-Batsh traveled locally and abroad to speak on Palestinian issues and was scheduled to fly to Turkey for a conference when he was killed, police said.
#Malaysia:Students of Dr. Fadi Albatsh crying after seeing remains of their lecturer at Malaysian hospital. Dr. Fadi was killed by unidentified assassins shooting last Saturday early morning.: image via mohammed mosleh @MohammedMusle18, 23 April 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
#Malaysia:Students of Dr. Fadi Albatsh crying after seeing remains of their lecturer at Malaysian hospital. Dr. Fadi was killed by unidentified assassins shooting last Saturday early morning.: image via mohammed mosleh @MohammedMusle18, 23 April 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
#Malaysia:Students of Dr. Fadi Albatsh crying after seeing remains of their lecturer at Malaysian hospital. Dr. Fadi was killed by unidentified assassins shooting last Saturday early morning.: image via mohammed mosleh @MohammedMusle18, 23 April 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
#Malaysia:Students of Dr. Fadi Albatsh crying after seeing remains of their lecturer at Malaysian hospital. Dr. Fadi was killed by unidentified assassins shooting last Saturday early morning.: image via mohammed mosleh @MohammedMusle18, 23 April 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
feeling maybe a little bit off after those spinach waffles
A Cold War poison resurfaces in a quiet English town: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 23 April 2018
#NIC Shop keepers get ready to defend from looters amid Nicaragua's turmoil @AFPphoto by Rodrigo Arangua: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
#NIC rioting students vow to keep up street protests until President Ortega is ousted. @AFPphoto by @intiocon: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 23 April 2018
Police tape blocks off the Waffle House restaurant Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee.: photo byMark Humphrey/AP, 22 April 2018
Oswald Spengler: Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West), first edition cover: C.H. Beck Verlag, München, 1922: image by Perceval, 2005
There is such a thing as the ruling class.: image via asad abukhalil @asadAbukhalil, 22 April 2018
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Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms: image via Electronic Intifada @intifada, 22 April 2018
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GAZA STRIP - Palestinian dies of wounds, bringing Gaza toll to 40 Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 April 2018
Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms: image via Electronic Intifada @intifada, 22 April 2018
GAZA STRIP - Palestinian dies of wounds, bringing Gaza toll to 40 Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 23 April 2018