@ Cayman's Pad
in Amagansett;
his finger poised
above the World Wide pulse
interfaces are encountered
from a sea-side perch. Are we faithful to his tablet generation; his mobile imagination?
Starling has its sights set on September.
http://www.gomonews.com/new-social-media-app-for-tv-shows-starling/ Cayman's classroom; his return to school, a social scene of seekers; this we know: his play-time will be re-defined. http://www.corestandards.org/
Digital Natives will teach us. Are we willing to learn, adapt? Will we guide Cayman's hand in the deep seas of e-knowledge, where content doesn't yet know how to swim? http://www.fosi.org/index.php/resources.html
iPad posture
e_mancipation
7th grade brought with it a challenge: Select a speech; memorize it; present it in real-time, Saint Mary’s stage, auditorium full, spotlight on — a cadre of classmates, self-selected by ability and ambition sitting politely silent while I summoned Abraham Lincoln’s words, his defiant strength, his last hurrah.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/scsmbib:@field%28TITLE+@od1%28Emancipation+proclamation+of+President+Abraham+Lincoln,+freeing+the+slaves+of+the+United+States,++Daniel,+Sr++++%29%29
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The Emancipation Proclamation massaged by my inexperience and ignorance of the past [a historian’s obsession] generated a document-specific transformative circumstance whereby my historical countenance and consciousness blossomed as if Emily Dickinson had done the planting [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/arts/design/30dickinson.html]
Lincoln lulled me into a just and fervent patriotism; whereby my life’s emergence from 7th grade onward was shaped by this universally applicable Republican:
http://www.myspace.com/miraclesofmodernscience
http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/nhnycw/af/af01/af01002/001v.jpg
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhsarcm.html
We need another e_mancipation.
Let’s dig in; let’s reach into ourselves; let’s begin thinking about the Other; let’s get in the habit of being considerate [again]. Let’s resume the posture; not of Pontius Pilate or of the Roman Army, authorized to terrorize. Rather, let us endeavor to strike a pose, with our movements synchronized toward confessing to our confessor this non-negotiable: To withdraw so completely as to be absent; our Blackberry,
During our occupation of climate-controlled dwellings; where we arrive with vehicles emitting consequences we count by carbon increments, crazily dependent — let’s get distracted by the length of time required to look our neighbor, our colleagues in the eye and plunge into her/his reservoir of ‘knowing.’
There is a seat @ the table; the empty chair ought not be our empty concern but our strident daring to know the Other.
“On the far side of the subjective, on this side of the objective, on the narrow ridge, where I and Thou meet, there is the realm of ‘between.’ [Martin Buber, Between Man and Man]
Beyond Petroleum
Brooklyn’s sky
rests
upon its peripatetic
people
clusters of children
intertwined
spheres of passage;
prestige
advancement
sojourns
escorted
through digital domains,
hard-wired, hard-pressed.
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Yet
I must tell my story.
I must teach my truth.
Rabbi, fear not, I do not presume to be you.
Forgive me Jesus; I suffer not, as you did.
Let us pray:
Buoyant upon the sins
Of we the unthinking,
Unprepared,
No back-up plan
Deliberately-projecting
Petrol pumped
cheaply
Reaping deep profits
Influence
Yo.
Listen up: [if I may say it as a Queens-girl;
Shea, in the distance]
resources
are not infinite.
Sally sells sea shells
By the sea-shore.
Who will pay?
Are you breathing?
Beyond petroleum?
BP?
http://www.greenbergresearch.com/index.php?ID=473
It’s time to burp.
Belch.
Fart.
All-knowing
Our infinite hope, refuge and strength
We know the sea’s tide;
that its polarity
equals
a sponge.
The shit has really hit the fan.
Print that: New York Times
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-14/obama-sends-bomb-mars-experts-to-fix-bp-oil-spill-update1-.html
Ask any fisherman:
Which is it?
Shrimp cocktail?
Today’s traffic report?
Mom, are we there yet?
Not quite honey, not quite.
©2010 right_hook/gadget girl
Coney Island : Not Just for Mermaids
In the grip of a Brooklyn dude; who sees things in black and white; his gadget glides toward Coney Island; keeping time [see left wrist] as if Michael Jackson could still thrill us in real-time.
Suitable for a King
[dedicated to everyone who believes in the dream]
Coretta,
@ first you were
a veiled widow;
Black upon Black
when first
my child’s eyes
noticed you
http://www.cdcan.us/cdcan_reports/2008/13_25_king_scott_coretta_funeral2.jpg
...
Then, as I became
a woman
I saw some of me
in you — each inheritors
of his Kingdom.
What in God’s name
Was your husband thinking?
Talking theology
Systematically
Amongst sons of liberty
And daughters of revolution
while Cambridge
politely breathed
its sighs
of
privilege
relieved
you weren’t dumping tea
in Boston harbor
Did they ever imagine
You’d walk
upon the Charles?
http://www.bu.edu/mlkjr/news/
I wish I had a river
That I could row away on
Now that CNN
Interrupts my REM
Today
Is a double-bill
A new kind of currency
In God We Trust
emblazoned with the Caribbean sun
the poorest nation
in the Americas
Cracked into pieces
like a bowl of nigger toes
http://urbansemiotic.com/2007/10/09/hand-me-that-bowl-of-nigger-toes/
Turn it over.
will Geithner
gain
A percentage point,
an up tick
when
his John Hancock
begins flying off the presses?
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/
http://www.ustreas.gov/organization/bios/geithner-e.shtml
http://wheresthechange.blogspot.com/2009/02/civil-disobedience.html
Bring on the Red Stripe
http://www.redstripebeer.com/custom_signs.php
http://www.meas.ie/page.php?intPageID=118
let’s Skip along
carefree
like a white girl
in Birmingham
or Biloxi
or Charlestown
http://www.4littlegirls.com/boston.htm
But be careful
Not to whistle
That sort of air play
will cost you
Fingers.
Toes.
Gone for good
Those digits
Add up
In the rubble.
We must begin
our sojourn
your legacy suggests;
Leaning on
Doctors
Without Borders
http://www.livinginemergency.com/
Meanwhile,
grieving Park Slope pseudo-moms
push strollers,
past Brooklyn
Brownstones
Worry —
families pressed
beneath chunks
of concrete
slabs of metal
shards of glass
While we pay cash [health care not included]
So as not to leave a trail
If the IRS ever decides
to sniff around
(pulls a Zoe Baird)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n3_v45/ai_13599262/
We’re prepared
To re-assign those
bureaucrats
Mission:
Search & Rescue
Port Au Prince.
Dog-day afternoon
Post 9-11
We go on the hunt
Strange fruit
http://www.discoverlynchburg.org/135_attractions_anne-spencer-house-and-garden
Saddam swings
Butcher
of Baghdad?
Osama
rhymes
with Obama
We are now
Afghanistan’s hope
The Russians
must think
we
harvested
a fertile valley
of poppies
defying
Nancy Reagan’s
Suggestion:
“Just Say No.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/05/07/couricandco/entry4999323.shtml
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/18/lessons-from-soviets-in-afghanistan/
Where is Billie?
On Holiday?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
Can she see Alaska
from the all-inclusive
opportunities
in the Dominican Republic
skin
glistening.
Such a beauty
Yet so heavy
in her silence.
Have we forgotten Humpty Dumpty?
Read it to me again Daddy
Before you’re re-deployed
So long I have loved your voice:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
May his
memory
be for blessing
http://survivorthriver.blogspot.com/2003/10/may-his-memory-be-blessing.html
May honor
seize him
by any means necessary.
Believe.
© 2010 Julie Holley
