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UPON HEARING ABOUT ELEVEN SCHOOLS BEING CLOSED IN THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY Money. The same problem again! There is never enough money to keep the schools running--- schools in poor neighborhood, mind you! The superintendent admitted with a graceful smile before PowerPoint The government funding is short & Education is way down on the list The wisdom of the forefathers’ has gone to the dogs! In a dark alley---this was on the same news channel---a fifth grader shot a third grader during a kiddo fight, leaving the ten-year-old dead behind Girls & Boys Club For a person like me---too naïve to spend time pondering money--- I am puzzled by the imbalanced equation between the billions spent on killing machines operated by young handsome American soldiers and a drop in a bucket on children’s future . . . Kids are killing each other for a kick! This is the future we are facing! This is how they react to the glorified bullshit! This is the way boys are raised in the 21st century! This is the crime we’re all involved in! This is a slap on the face of Freedom! This is how they spit on the face of God! Next time, when you hear a rich bastard talking nonsense about your bright future and your children’s bright future, or even your pleasant afterlife in a Wal-Mart underworld make sure look into his eyes and tell him: Shove your money up your ass and take it to your gated paradise the day you die! + z.z. 2006
你的記憶真是非凡!還記得H.Zinn的話!!
我向每一個在美國居住的朋友推薦他的書!!
看得出,你讀東西非常投入,難得難得!!!!
謝謝!!
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make sure look into his eyes and tell him:
Shove your money up your ass and take it
to your gated paradise the day you die!
好一首有“洞察”力的詩！！！
最後一節非常Powerful, 洞察現象/事物後creating authentic power，not the “power” of greed and stupidity of the authority.... 通讀全詩，越來越理解“錢是王八蛋”:)如果生命有一點關於智慧邏輯的常識。。。“every single individual life is precious ..... not how much money you can make in the modern slavery system, but how you can enrich your soul in this short life.....”
這首詩也非常“詩意”，我所理解的詩意不隻是流於文字表麵的詩意，而是詩歌中無形的一種氣勢（或流淌）和可無限的延伸。。。
Kids are killing each other for a kick!
This is the future we are facing!
This is how they react to the glorified bullshit!
This is the way boys are raised in the 21st century!
This is the crime we’re all involved in!
This is a slap on the face of Freedom!
This is how they spit on the face of God!
這裏每一句每一句讀來都令人深思，可延伸到對其他諸多想象/事物的同樣思考。。。
全詩行文，節奏，流淌，氣勢， 起落回蕩。。。讀來曉暢爽快！！
這首詩讓我想起雙壁軒裏Howard Zinn的演講。。。
"The lesson of that history is that you must not despair, that if you are right, and you persist, things will change…… do what you can -- you don't have to do something heroic, just something, to join with millions of others who will just do something, because all of those somethings, at certain points in history, come together, and make the world better.”
thanks for sharing your poetry...when I am reading this poem, I can hear a voice from a world better...
when education fails, hope will be gone . . .that's how i feel sorry for kids, they are sandwitched by staged reality (reality-show, celebrity. . .) and broken reality!!!