G' Mornin-- bob scheetz wrote: > contrariwise, the world we inhabit with ep is the wasteland, > ...a death-o-god world that nihil-ates all value > down to the crassest materialist scrimmage. > so there's no moral high ground > whence to melodramatically hurl the ole "j'accuse"..., eh? > and name calling, the general currency of vile epithets > ...hip-hop lyrics bout muthafuckas, hoes, bubbas, niggas,... > seems just about right, > most meaningfully to mirror our world. > ...only consider the recent epiphany of our tabacco road > narcissit prez and his cocksucker courtiers > bombing nazi serbia back to the third world > (still wait'n to see all those mass graves) > in order to tidy up a strategic frontier of the g7 imperium > under the iron exigencies of the brahmin caste of greenspans...? > > this is the wasteland, the vortex of moral grotesqueries > in which the poet was/is trying to discern signifying shapes. > not the world of arnoldian sweetness & lite, > not the consumerist lotus-land of suburban pc merka. BRAVO !!!!!! ...and poor ol' Ez , being just a bit brighter than myself [cough], would have felt so entirely out of place in a world of sheeple that his progression to what seemed to be "alternative systems" was natural -- and, perhaps, even correct !? ...my opinion. ever yours, from within a community of sheeple, Bern. http://205.252.89.138/ BK http://home.earthlink.net/~bjking/ ICQ # 4557591