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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

 

SCARY FOOTAGE! Terrorist Attack in Vienna, Austria - November 3, 2020

youtube .com/watch?v=xF6pXaOs4dU&bpctr=1604467967

 

Jihadi Kills 4, Injures 14 in Vienna, after Early Release from Prison

youtube .com/watch?v=3XeuCxZtO-U

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Muslim Murders Hindu Girl for Refusing to Convert and Marry Him

Faridabad Murder Case: Victim Nikita Tomar's Final Moments | WATCH | India Today  

youtube .com/watch?v=MvGTCYTgRVc  

The religion of Peace....


Thursday, October 29, 2020

 

Jihadi Murders Three Christians at Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, France

youtube .com/watch?v=0FAfzTW1pWs

From the Religion of Peace....

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

THE QUESTION

 

          
          What will you do, poor human,
          When you discover at your death
          That God is not
          Your Mafioso grandfather,
          But vacant, immense,
          And numberless as the stars
          Like being alone,
          And faceless.
 
 
 
          
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Sunday, October 18, 2020

LA FRANCE C’EST NOUS. NOUS SOMMES LA FRANCE.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

LA FRANCE C’EST NOUS. NOUS SOMMES LA FRANCE.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Monday, August 31, 2020

SILENCE






          Silence is like snow after all.
         It will fall, if you let it, 
         all around you.
         It will surround you and grow deep
         until you are compact in it
         and can neither act  
         nor speak.














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Sunday, July 26, 2020

WHITTLING


 


       Speaking of tombstones, like you said,
       I don’t want one; it’s not just the cost, it’s . . .
       my philosophy of justice.

       To sink a stone slab at my head,
       engraved with dates and deeds 
       as if to render up accounts
       to any stranger that can read,
       would be to weight my spirit down
       when it ought to be most free.

       My old woman used to say,
       “People have expectations.
       It’s the basis of society.”

       That’s just how people are, you see.
       If they think they’ve known you,
       they think they own you.
       So even when you’re dead and gone,
       they still want to judge you on
       what you have and haven’t done.

       I’ll tell you a secret, though—one
       better kept than it should be—
       death is a release,
       from even a good life. 

       As for me, I’ve had all a man needs;
       I’ve had lovers; I had a wife;
       I have children I love, and they love me.

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Image from thestar .com/travel/northamerica/article/1076911--resting-places-of-the-rich-and-famous


Sunday, May 24, 2020

AT BALZAC’S MONUMENT



       I turned the corner. At my approach,
       Balzac, you rose before me like a ghost
       of unquiet conscience—as in a slow
       up-pouring of volcanic force
       arrested in the stillness of this place
       to stand as if blasted by Gods eye of wrath
       and weathered into desert stone
       like Lots wife at her turning back
       toward the destruction of her city.
       I stopped, astounded by
       your gouged eyes, staring forever,
       the stumps of your severed hands—
       signs of the immortal martyrdom
       awarded by an implacable art
       for having gazed too long at the obscene
       spectacle of our stupidity.

       —Thus the sentence. But on whom,
       you or us, has the judgment come?
       The answer, if there is one, bides
       within the sunlight and torrential
       silence that clothe you.
       And in your keeping still your vigil
       over this old French city of small souls.




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