The weather cold
just as you know
like alpin glow
seems forever
Each spring unsold
planted life grows
watered peace flows
past hates lever
Test one’s mettle
the space explore
to unknown shores
rhyme would settle
Thoughts may shuttle
destiny more
reasoning for
places so subtle
Scalar fields morph
embedded things
stretched time pings
beyond light’s wharf.
The United States has developed a record for engaging in protracted wars to accomplish a few general tactical political or economic objectives before withdrawing. Having invested lots (billions and billions) of cash, military equipment and advice in propping up one of the most corrupt governments in the world the Ukraine may be destined to become the next fiasco the U.S. Democrat Party has accomplished.
The Ukraine is Joe Biden's war. He is the haute chef of death. Precursor events for starting the conflict established by Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, President Biden was an 800 pound monkey in government agitating, arm-twisting and redistributing pentagon products to keep the conflict going. Most Americans would like the misbegotten war to end. Sharing far eastern Ukraine with its traditional owner-Russia, and restoring normal relations on both sides of the Dnipr River with large reconstruction projects accentuating the positives of sustainable economics would be of great value to the world.
Instead of the OSD (obsessive compulsive disorder) approach to international relations that demands every military contrivance possible in disorder to militarily force Russia to lose all of its historical lands in the Ukraine, a righteous President would stop flooding Ukraine with weapons that some believe is the trigger event to Armageddon and a destined New World Order of pervasive Neo-Paleolithic social anomie.
The west can survive if Russia owns the Crimea and far eastern Ukraine and even prosper with some sort of restoration of post-Cold War cooperation and normal economic relations with Russia. That would be better than the OCD approach that will present a sudden chill with a Ukraine left in chaos and Europe hating America for not rebuilding the Cold War with a new Iron Curtain to separate dangerous Cossack Huns of Russia seeking to devour Holland, Lithuania, Britain, Poland and Germany.
Some people are offended by places named for slavers or that exploit American aboriginals. The Kansas City chiefs offended quite a few people. The 49ers had a politically correct name alternatively, and were crushed in defeat. So much for linguistic justice.
The capitol named for a slave owner and district named for a felon and Indian slaver and killer also trouble some. Who can forget the worst massacre of Indians-Shoshone in US history (of course it pales in comparison to Latin American slaughter of Indians sometimes accidentally with viruses).
A neutral name for each-like Trump or Rumplestilskin is what others seek. Since there were 14 presidents before George Washington it would be easy to select another President’s name to replace him for the nation’s capitol. Mifflin and Hancock are a pair of likely candidates… Choose one for yourself here...
https://mytpl.org/project/americas-secret-the-presidents-before-george-washington/
At age 34 Geno Smith isn’t the Seahawks QB of the future. They have the 16th draft choice in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft to select Michael Penix Jr for that.
Geno Smith could be traded to Minnesota or the Jets for a second round draft choice. Each team needs QB insurance; Smith is a good though not great QB and might take either team to the playoffs if their old Achilles repaired starters hobble to the sidelines
The Jets without Smith could be pathetic if Rogers is gone; a great defense is a terrible thing to waste.
The Seahawks could resign and start Drew Lock for a year to see if he is a next level quarterback now. They could sign Jameis Winston for insurance while training Penix for a year. It is a shame to have the best receiving trio in football underutilized. Winston has a rifle and it would be fun to see if three great receivers would cut his interceptions in half. Five-hundred yards passing in a game isn’t boring to watch.
If one has a new car with that new car smell and life is finally a bowl of chocolate covered cherries maybe one fears death since it might be cold and dirty. If one has toothache, hunger and pain in an amputated arm, is far in debt and can’t get a job perhaps death seems like a pleasure sometimes- especially if thinking about the quality of presidential candidates. Fear though is ineffective at preventing death, so why use it if one likes effective thought? I would guess that it can be used as a stimulus to remain alive when that isn’t easy.
Some to be certain would die to find out. Others trusting physics and the conservation of information (Shannon entropy) believe a mind and its information must be eternal- even outlasting the Higgs Field and grand reunification to singularity or a cold dead universe/multiverse. Still others trust in God…for all things created by God as spirit logically always exist for God regardless of material configurations of the temporal.
Parts per billion
words worth wisdom shatter as icicles on asphalt
dripping tar-balls and chemicals
nano-plastic content
spilt oil for
baleen filters
a whale steers through sound cones
keeping islands between it and
dendrites in confusion
discovered by fish finders
Plinking with sonar guidance
crashing into the leader
a hull gouges grooves across darkness
resurfaces survival values
in Thanatos’ caustic pollutants-
insults to epidermis
alienated and homeless
starving with the salmon faded
taken by mid-ocean drift nets
memories netted
death in cold water
The color of the water
a vast city’s sewer soup
affluence to oceans
drugs flushed to cetacea
received the swimmers
a rainbow of arterial additives
with motors distracting echoes
ripples in gray matter.
