The Valley Before Shadow Fall (a poem)

 

In the beginning the spirit moved
upon the face of the deep
bringing light
and darkness comprehended it not

  Hills that were cut by erasion
of sediments metamorphosed by ancient oceans
had life drift in with breezes
raising an ecospheric quotient

  Athabaskan sojourners sought the true
getting their bearings from skies too blue
wandering down toward Navajo land
just to see; to prove they can

  Hunting the mammoth, saber tooth and bear
until no predators of size were alive somewhere
and  the valley weilded giant forests
as woodlands sang ripe nature’s chorus

  So battles were fought with knife and bow
spear tips, atlatls and arrows to go
where other humans breathed and stood before
time could close another door

  Blue soldiers lie waiting
in the woods barrels focused
for grazing fire at the knees
over the quiet brook

  Cavalry readied to break free
from fetters of motionlessness
racing falling leaves
to die in the season’s end

  Elk were driven away by the highway noise
grizzlies were stuffed and mounted
litter and junk cast aside
began to fill the meadow

  Global warming deniers
rumbled along roads
bulldozed inimically to the natural course
water flowed from the highlands

  Like a hotel room in spacetime
meadow constructions displaced environmental matter
human wars and destruction passed too
landscape for-itself to the hereafter.

Mt. McGinness (a poem)

Trails climb
along cliffs edges
enter stand slide snows
anomy where every digit grasps
plants, roots, rocks
twists pains verge
break past's falls
drawn space
empty shape
above, below
final shown
brush crash
crows.

Ernest at War (a poem)

 

For whom the bell tolls
time is a sentence of line breaks
trenches dug in against political reality
furies the lives take
where fascists launch fantastic weapons
to land in splattering bursts
bodies burning

  Across the Jordan
In difficult pink hills
brambles and thorns hide trails
where guerillas set traps
thrill stressed memories were made
elephantine echoes enfiladed by death
clappers on skull housing units

Investments to hold generations firm
reporters speaking as insiders
bullets passing overhead like externalities
so unconcerned with the arrival of fall
while the point of aim is a recticle
shared with thee
the final call.

Yes, land is still available for purchase in Russia

 Yes you can buy land in Russia. Rural land averages about $400 an acre. In spite of the war in the Ukraine  and being assaulted and sanctioned through every possible means the Biden administration can dream of the Russian Federation remains something of a developing democracy and open society that lets foreigners buy affordible housing.

https://russian-agribusiness.com/properties/

https://realting.com/lands/russia

https://www.holprop.com/sale/pt/land-plot/scr/russia/page/5/

https://www.rbth.com/articles/2012/12/07/russias_farmland_-_cheapest_in_the_world_20907.html

Since the Clinton administration era kicked off the concept of Russia as a soft target readily exploited lacking strong military power westerners have lusted for owning Russian real estate. Political takeovers through concessions, leverage and so forth are cheaper than paying cash for real estate. Taking the Crimea from the new Russia when the infant state was at its weakest was the first stage in the modern Euro-American eastward expansion into Russia. That effort continues today in the war in Ukraine that has so much support from the U.S. administration and N.At.O.

 It is amazing watching sycophants of killing Russians issue gleeful stories on the internet about adventures in killing Russians or how the U.S. Government is training F-16 pilots, transferring aircraft, tanks, missile systems, and so forth to kill Russians. It was inevitable after the peaceful conclusion of the Soviet Union that the west would attack a weakened Russia after having first levered as much land away as it could during the transition period-without a referendum in Russia approving boundaries of course.

One Good Turn (poem)

A beautiful turn
for the mermaid
near the end of the pool
flipping the face of spacetime

  Blue ripples carved in the mind
cream rising for the topping
gathered world appearences
phenomenalities compresent

  A world ocean farther for great notions
to think the chance to dream
arisen from darkest depths
that draw one to return

  Aesthetic's moments suggest answers
glimpses into beginnings and endings
ubknown yet familiar
surfaces crumbling like instants.

Shadow Waves (poem)

 

Waves are gravity’s shadows
moving faster than thought
endless, relentless, surging, overcoming
senses, sensations and substance
formless forms filling space with voids
chord tumbling angles breaking up froth

Emptiness has volume
depth and scansion
feel the beginning of the end
for power driving gales
need clash with countercurrent echoes
peaks and troughs
tumbling field phenomenon
water weight of the world
oar worlds across time
sines in brine
life and death
a breath.

Free at Last (a poem)

 

 Slaves to the world
genuflect on capital
temples of wealth and terror
clusters of critical creation

  Pillars rise like shadows
casting reality where nothingness would
jackrabbits gaze around rocky corners
when silence, searing stood

  Royal clumps of ant like bumps
still hills that filled with leaven
arisen to the skies
while everyone tries
to find the niche that's heaven
on surface breaking stumps

What can be done
when peace is profound
and wars echo ideas
emanations of censured sounds

  Original sin
rolled like gravity’s marrow
bone crunches dinner for vultures of sorrow

  Good leaves thought
when philosophy is bare
dust settles empty shelves
mankind  becomes collective tares

Lord Jesus freed the slaves
bound to the temporal
hope did cost
winning over confusion ephemeral
for spirit filled eternity.

Rising Dreams (Haiku written with sli lead)

 So it must be right-
lifting dreams through silent nights
in the choirs’ first light.

Special Leader Biden Covers Quilts of War

 As cold tendrils and dark nights oove into the no-oath one’s thought may turn toward warm blankets that won’t fall onto the floor when one sleeps. Maybe blankets should have magnets that attach them to 24” wide plywood bed where one dreams counting sheep jumping over a fence.

Maybe not. It could be that warm winter quilts should be upgraded to de frappe temperatures of minus zero better. What if quality space blankets were sewn into a quilt sandwiched between layers of polar guard insulation. In contemporary America one’s though easily drifts into other applications for the body heat reflecting and trapping blanket; like its possible utility in concealing one’s location from infrared imaging infrared sensing drones.

Today NPR related that the Ukraine government said its ‘special forces’ had killed a Russian Black Sea fleet naval commander and 35 of his or her senior staff. That made me think of the Al Baghdadi hit coordinated with surveillance drones. Predators and hellfire missiles might well cluster on a heavily defended Russian naval HQ. better than ground troops advancing through lines of perimeter defenders. Can the Pentagon be regarded as a Ukrainian special force?

The Ukraine-Russia conflict reminds me a little of the American civil war battle on the western front and especially the battle of Chickamauga where Sherman’s troops were nearly routed in battle because of a confederate breakthrough union lines that sent union troops pell mel into retreat and a disaster saved only by General Walton’s stand in the middle of the surge of confederate forces that provided enough rear guard defense to let union forces slip away. I suppose Ukraine and the Pentagon are hoping for a breakthrough that would send Russian forces into retreat or otherwise have them overwhelmed and suppressed in order to allow an eventual N.A.T.O. build up on far eastern Ukraine borders with Russia.

That N.A.T.O./Biden fantasy aside, the interesting point meaningful to Americans is Russia’s ineffective missile attacks on Kiev and other salient Ukrainian position that recur about every week. It is as if Russia is field testing modern technology against American air defense systems. Providing Russia with the opportunity to innovate and upgrade ways to sort out missile defenses isn’t too helpful for the prospect of reducing defense spending and paying down U.S. public debt. One might want to sleep soundly at night free of concern of a muscle twitch sending a swarm of hypersonic missiles to vaporize the neighborhood if an A.I. millisecond speed launch decision system gets hit by a cosmic ray on the quantum circuit host. It might have been better to invest in systems to let rural African farmers grow drought and terror-resistant crops.

Traditionally missile designers regard point targets and how to send missiles accurately there. Anti-missile designers consider ways to identify and intercept incoming missiles. Offensive missiles usually are blind to anti-missiles on intercept courses attacking them. With so many ineffective Russian drone and missile attacks it is obvious that people are thinking about how to change the relationships in order to make drone and missile attacks more effectively overcome air defenses.

Even missiles designed to attack air defense missiles are dedicated single purpose systems. In the future missiles launched at point targets probably will have artificial intelligence and or limited capability virtual intelligence guidance that will have anti-missile batteries as their primary target and other targets as secondary targets in case no anti missiles are launched upon them. As American designers invented MIRV and MARV capability for ICBMs during the late stages of the Cold War multiple independent re-targeting vehicles may brake off from primary missiles to seek multiple different targets each with A.I. guidance to select from multiple targets. Some MIRV units can be used as decoy or release spoofing and chaff to disorder or distract anti-missiles such as Patriots from finding a primary target. Other MIRV vehicles could be purposed to detonate the Patriot for-themselves.

One of the problems with anti-missile systems is that even hypersonic missiles and gliders released from MIG-31s flying up high could find multiple targets with different purposes released from the primary hyper-sonic package. Some of those MIRV packages might be adapted to hunting Patriot batteries themselves after the Patriot batteries have given have identified their location by launching on incoming primary missile delivery packages. Hypersonic missiles can deliver force packages to a region and release them for distribution to local enemy hubs inclusive of attacking patriot batteries. Apparently speed is involved in punching, step hook counter-punching and an ability to circle an opponent to deliver jabs and even knock out strikes on opposition force command sites.

If one is a simple soldier trying to stay warm in the trench or an unemployed homeless American on the plains in cold continental winter winds the heat-reflecting and polar guard heat-absorbing quilt may have another value when the sky is filled with surveillance seeking prey.

A.I. and Screenplay Futurism

 Hollywood films, like early television were something of a quasi-monopoly product that required special human technical skills and capital to produce. No one needed to add a ‘Don’t try making a movie like this’ at home warning at the start of a feature movie. A.I. has changed that. In the fairly near future virtually anyone with quality A.I. software running on a home computer with enough processing power will be able to order a feature length movie generated for-themselves.

Modern computer technology and software have brought democratic changes to end the exclusivity of writing movie or film scripts that was limited to specialists with degrees in English not uncommonly. Guilds and unions won’t be the primary providers of content design for verbal communication transpiring in films. Artificial intelligence will be able to create complete artificial worlds and dialogues of interest to local individuals with such ease and quantity that every town in the U.S.A. might have countless citizens creating feature films on their home computer in every genre and local backgrounds. Artificial intelligence given image samples can create realistic landscapes compatible with local scenery, culture and dress.

Recent labor union strikes in the film and acting trades have brought up the pathos of human struggle against computers and artificial intelligence that has gone on since typing and office secretary became largely obsolete occupations with the arrival of Windows and MSWORD. Unions understandably don’t want competition from new technology. Like Luddites, unions seeking to arrest the profusion of A.I. created products in order to preserve their occupations will hardly slow the advancing tide of technology. In a better human social environment humans could adapt A.I. safely to augment social ventures. Yet even if an A.I. wrote a modern Utopia of ecological economics that would work better than any existing political system it wouldn’t be given an political interest at all.

Humans will be able to create their own feature films to such an extent that over-the-transom proliferation will stimulate people to find something else to do eventually. Free speech in A.I. generated products with unlimited voice samples and person images artificially generated will enable the rise of an endless variety of actors and actresses working on limitless vistas. At least live humans on Broadway should have job security. A.I. can create new voices and faces with the vast database for synthesizing new already in the public domain.

An endless supply of Oscar winning quality movies created with the help of A.I. may arise under the pressure of international competition in addition to the phenomenon of basement movie studios on-a-chip. Because the cost of creating a movie on a chip will be nearly zero in comparison to the cost of making a film with human actors, directors, screen writers and so forth, independent film creators may experience a substantial quality and quantity production advantage over traditional studios or even those with PIXAR graphics.

I have written a few science fiction novels myself; usually improved first drafts composed in an unheated location in Alaska. It was the pilosophical content that was valuable to me rather than the entertainment value in-itself. A.I. may make the writing of purely entertainment novels competetively obsolete as well as movies. After experiencing the value of A.I. art that is still a very young technology, and asking ChatGPT to write a philosophical sonnet I am persuaded that the appearance of quality novels written by A.I. isn’t too far down the road.

Plainly artificial intelligence as a highly mobile expert system will find applications in virtually every trade from those of being an electrician or plumber to medicine. Bad lawyers with hangovers may take an A.I. companion to court to listen to the opposition and prompt them to enter an objection when relevant simply to create a point of reference for a future appeal. The swamping and bumping of trades from the appearance of A.I. expert systems goes along with the appearance of new human capabilities in so many occupations. It is challenging to believe that congress in a free democratic society with capitalism will find it possible to ban A.I. applications too much. If there are tens of thousands of novels published every day on-line that are free to read it may be difficult for aspiring authors to find a market to sell their own product in since the books usually go for free with top quality.

A.I. will bring large, discomforting changes to society as well good ones. If Elon Musk had installed high quality cameras on his thousands of Starlink satellites around the planet in low Earth orbit A.I. could have used them to gather all kinds of data about the world. A.I. from home computers might have used one or more of the cameras for business purposes including creation of movies. Home dial-in access to live satellite imagery for a few minutes at low cost may be around the corder,

There is a dark side to A.I. as well as good. Without question A.I. imagery might notice fine details in live pollution, deforestation and wildfire events that some may not want observed. Skynet terminator/Forbin Project, HAL, The Cell events could be scripted by programmers and filter in as easily as fragrance on an evening breeze intentionally r unintentionally. For certain the Congress hasn’t the intellect or will to know what to do with A.I., pay down the public debt, end poverty globally or restore the vital health of the world ecosphere.

For the interim the rise of A.I. art in film may make a a few thousand interesting productions for Neflix style outlets for those interested, to watch. Writing screenplays for A.I. production will be something of a new field for-itself. Providing prompts and directions/suggestions for scene constructions and dialogue with a fuzzy logic letting free reign for the A.I. that has every novel, play and movie ever published in its database to draw upon differs from creating action scenes with comparatively sparse on-camera dialogue. It will be interesting to view the adventures of Dorothee and her little dog tow-tow taking their supra-dimensional Kansas farmhouse to a different planet; a different galaxy each week to make landfall on their five-year mission to find new subscribers where none have existed before.