Great newspaper today— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
A Lebanese Druse was quoted;
“We’re not massacring anyone,
we just surround the town
and don’t let anyone surrender.”
Also the EPA says the ‘greenhouse’ effect is no myth.
temperatures and ocean levels
up significantly by the 1990’s.
oceans 4-7 feet higher by 2000.
Oh yeah, and we gave a Nobel prize
to a man for his work on theoretical economics.
gallagher
18 oct 83
Irvine
Archive for October, 1983
1983-10-18
Tuesday, October 18th, 19831983-10-25
Tuesday, October 25th, 1983 Voices against an unstoppable trend
peace, ecology...
I hear sanity out there
in fictional works and splinter movements
Germany's Greens...Amnesty International...
Small fragments bobbing on the river of history
bound for the sea of final realities
to a final ocean of silence and armageddon
But...I hear no forming consensus
no rising conviction ever wider held
that the issues ARE critical
that the implications ARE deadly
That this paradise of nature
and the wonder of our children's eyes
our plastic everythings and ego competitive structures
are all tissue paper illusions
against an unforgiving reality
I hold those I love and wipe my eyes
that I might better see beyond the immediate moment
beyond the local forms which seem so permanent
the paychecks, the city streets and their names
There, the news that plays before us like some global soap-opera
against the force of our blind consensus reality
that says there are no problems unless we agree there are
I want to see where this history is carrying us
gallagher
25 oct 83
Irvine
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
1983-10-25
Tuesday, October 25th, 1983
Almost inarticulate against visions of armageddon
too unreal these views emerging from behind
the everyday facades of stability and order
Patterns forming nets across our family photographs
everyday images fading to ghostly translucence
my eyes water looking at trees and children
This deep feeling that we're in danger of loosing so much
and still we ride to work thru the morning sunlight
coffee'd and pressed clothes and all unimpressed
Unimpressed by Lebanon or Central America or starvation
Unimpressed by our growing genetic and ecological ruin
or the future that all our inattention is building
for the innocent eyes of those children we spawn and so love
Plastic and possessions, positions and titles, addresses and markets
these define our tangible realities, blind us to deeper stories
Deeper patterns forming so slowly that we miss them across generations
like children who's attentions spans are too short
to appreciate the calculus our blind progress has created
but nature and karmic reality have never waited
on the conceit of the affected or the responsible
for permission to play out the wheel of causality
gallagher
25 oct 83
irvine
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —