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Bland Warm Beer

Posted on June 13, 2017 | 1 comment

Bland Warmbier

Sandra Bland & Otto Warmbier are
Obverse sides of the law-&-order coin
One’s intercontinental travel went far
The other got the role of oppressed toy

Both existences are tragic stories:
Good people done in by crooked systems
Their tales of injustice tired & hoary:
They might well be Old Testament lessons

But our media will defend but one
Defending the undefendable way
Our brutal racist system deals with some
Lamenting Otto Warmbier’s sad display

So as you surf the internet notice
How racism is a given: know this!

Subway Slashing Sonnet

Posted on May 31, 2017 | 1 comment

train victim diptych

There are two unfortunate souls right here
The pregnant woman whose young face was slashed
Thinking about being a new mother dear
(& how to keep herself together lashed)

The other’s ridden life’s roller coaster
Hoping the bottom of the descent’s near
When younger, perhaps she was a “toaster”
Angel Dust, Dope: starting with pot & beer

So onto train ventures the mother new
Avoiding she that’s fighting her demons
(Beelzebub says: “don’t let her dis you!”
Sitting elsewhere was what that was seemin’)

Into her bags she reached for the bright shiv
Payback for dis was what she did give

http://nypost.com/2017/05/28/woman-slashed-on-subway-platform-at-grand-central/

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Selfies, Comicon, Cosplay & Desire

Posted on October 14, 2013 | 1 comment

Selfie Haiku Cosplay thoughts
Thursday before class I thought:

1. What is the pleasure/
That we derive from looking?/
What are its effects?/
#haiku

2. Does what we look at/
Suffer any damages/
From desirous gaze?/
#haiku

3. Is anything gained/
From being beauty’s object?/
(Or just the lookers?)/
#haiku

4. What if the beauty/
Comes from clever artifice/
Not biology?/
#haiku

During class on Friday a couple of students argued that selfies, even sexy selfies are not created with pornification in mind. They are made so that the takers can celebrate a day that they felt good about how they looked (of course the porn aesthetic might still be in their double consciousness).

At Comicon on Sunday I went to the comix chix panel assembled by Kate Kotler and I learned about cosplay and people’s motives for dressing up. These haiku combine these related thoughts.

5. Beautiful selfies/
Young women take themselves/
Aren’t “pornography”/
#haiku

6. Some derive pleasure/
Of a prurient nature/
(That’s accidental)/
#haiku

7. Selfies are taken/
To remember that moment/
Keep a night’s beauty/
#haiku

8. Lookers may see porn/
In women’s youthful beauty’s/
Like having Black skin/
#haiku

9. Racists and sexists/
Minimize humanity/
To control the world/
#haiku

10. Obscuring beauty/
To avoid pleasuring pervs/
Lets sexism win/
#haiku

11. Racism won’t end/
When Blacks act just like white folk/
Just like the burqa/
#haiku

12. Police sexism/
Privilege’s deviance/
Is the problem here/
#haiku

13. Selfies like Cosplay/
Are innocent engagement/
In this modern world/
#haiku

14. Lets raise up the floor/
Not lower this world’s ceiling/
On Internet geeks*/
#haiku *girls, life

15. Selfies and Cosplay/
Have parallel importance/
The self and other/
#haiku

16. Personal actions/
Amplified by Internet/
Still people’s choices/
#haiku

17. We should not limit/
Ourselves for those imprisoned/
By pre-fab desire/
#haiku

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Bathroom Selfies

Posted on June 29, 2013 | 1 comment

1. Bathroom selfies posed:/
Curves, outfits & confidence/
Performing their youth/
#haiku

2. Hips, hair and make-up/
Symbolically represent/
The entire woman/
#haiku

3. Porcelain backgrounds/
Show the austere privacy/
Of working women/
#haiku

4. Private made public/
Through Instagram’s* devices/
Peek into living/
#haiku *internet’s

5. Lipstick, Eyeshadow/
Women’s painted abstractions/
(Displaying their craft)/
#haiku

6. Metallic rainbow/
Arched over the Soul’s window/
Competing beauties/
#haiku

7. Windows to the soul/
Staring into a smartphone/
Shared around the world/
#haiku

8. Iris and pupil/
Take in the light’s emissions/
While showing the soul/
#haiku

9a. Painted eye sockets/
Highlight, distract, camouflage/
The windows to soul/
#haiku

9b. Painted eye sockets/
Highlight, distract, camouflage/
Nature’s true beauty/
#haiku

10. Brightly painted lips/
The close up of consumption/
Meant for consumption/
#haiku

11. The abstract beauty/
Of a woman’s components/
Dehumanizes/
#haiku

12. Each photographed part/
Belongs to a living soul/
We must remember/
#haiku

13. Souls display their shells/
Reasons known only to them/
We mustn’t pre-judge/
#haiku

14a. Articulating/
Self on digital highway/
Is impossible/
#haiku

14b. Articulating/
Self on digital highway/
Is quite difficult/
#haiku

15a . Internet’s reduced/
All humans to simple Memes/
Stand-ins for ourselves/
#haiku

15b. Internet’s reduced/
Humans into mere icons/
Stand-ins for ourselves/
#haiku

16. Bathroom self-portraits/
Reduce us to visible/
Components of life*/
#haiku *self

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Bathroom Selfies

Posted on June 29, 2013 | 1 comment

Bathroom $€£fie$