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Thomas Bell
I will be reading the attached text behind the door of my office with
some patients and working on
graphics from June 9 until June 40.
Thomas Bell
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my TV has
crawling once more under the screen
along the banks of the Tibris
clouds billow over Baghdad
phones on the cutting edge
disconnect
3/24/03
Embedded media
Terminalized
Frag news crawls along at camel's
pace under the TV picture
of....
Akbar
TV has
Crawling once more under the screen
Along the banks of the Tibris
Clouds billow over Baghdad
Phones on the cutting edge
disconnect
Regarding the Pain of Others
Nearby plaque commemorating Grant-
Land Rice's birthplace, Condoleesa
Rice lays out options, shopkeep,
Kurd out of Jerusalem, carefully handles Camels out of Winston-Salem out of
baccy from nearby fields as encroaching Vietnam vet fondles neck of Bud Light
shimmers through on shockandawe headline. Camera shifts to SUV mall miles
off. Sex
y ad sublimes isms MONSTER.COM
AMAZON ATLAS shrugged.
"in Bklyn over
the last 2 weeks a lone
African-American has
murdered 4 Muslims and a few other
shop keepers...extrapolate
that..."
The show will go on tonight
3/26
Polarities
Poetics
Ambiguity
Gore speaks from here today
FAQ
iRAQ
fact
NASDAQ
S&P
DOW
CNN
NBC
Dear Tom,
You know...
this is a war
in order to rob the petroleum from
Iraq and secure the future of Israel. It is a war
of prey,
like the Opium Wars of the
Englishmens against the Chinese.
It is a murderous war
that has made us retreat one
century, at least.
I know that not all the North
Americans
are guilty of having a President
pirate
like Bush
but I could not quit thinking in
that to all you spout them the blood of the hands (for omission and
indifference).
You mention Uruguay and are not
very far off.
Uruguay
possesses something that the
USAmericans want and need (above all California) and it is
"water."
The lists is: Iran, Palestina,
North Korea, China, Colombia, Brazil (for the Amazonia), etc.
The empire
is
like an elephant in a bazaar. Fraternally,
Clemente Padin
----- Mensaje
original -----
De:
"tombell" <trbell@comcast.net>
Para: "UB Poetics discussion
group" <POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU>
CC:
"Enviado: Miércoles, 26 de Marzo de 2003 03:35 p.m.
Asunto: Re: what poets can do
"If it bleeds, it leads."
- Langer
If we are waging and economic war,
let us.
If we are waging a poetry war, let
us.
If we are waging [Coalition forces
targeting telecommunication targets in Baghdad
If we are waging a Holy War, let us
=======If I am paranoid you put
those words in my mouth=====
clamering underflow
switch to soaps
to Final four
to Johnny Cash
cut or switch to MASH reruns
sons of the American revolution]
GOODvsEVIL
poison factories
disInformation Ministry in Baghdad
3/27
Far more lethally --
starting with the attack by Italian
fighter planes near Tripoli in October
1911 -- European nations ad been
bombing their colonies. So-called
"air
control operations" were
favored as an economical alternative to the costly
practice of maintaining large
garrisons to police Britain's more restive pos-
sions. One of these was Iraq, which (along with Palestine) had gone to
Britain as pat of the spoils of
victory when the Ottoman Empire was dis-
membered after the First World
War. Between 1920 and 1924, the
recently
formed Royal Air Force regularly
targeted Iraqi villages, often remote settle-
ments, where the rebellious natives
might try to find shelter, with the raids
carried on continuously - Susan
Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, NY,
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2003.
"War has colored all of our
lives for a very long time."
Is casualty notification at all
casual?
Instanteous haplessness =+= with
new technology comes earsback pinning anxiety = you pine.
Generic enbed, embed, in bed those
angels dancing on the head of a pin
winning the battle we
are
"They [we] have been
monitoring listening posts and flooding the internet". polling advertisees
"terminalizing"
BaghdadaDada
I hate that it happened to him,
he
who "indoctrinated" us into the Marines way
our media mediated immediated
knowledge of war
headlines creep under, crawl along
inexorably relaying the underlying messages quick [or better, as quickly]
3/28
"the war pho-
tograph was surrounded by words(the
article it illustrated
and other articles), while in a
magazine, it was more likely
to be adjacent to a competing image
that was peddling
something...."
MSNBC****Animation HOMEshoppingnetwork gameshow network
LIVE?IRAQ NBCnews with 3rdInfantry
on the phone Suicide bomb
ers
ReMaX Eloan.com Salut
ing
the HEROS
"Imagine this!"
"Picture
that."
sendphotoswithanythingspecialyouwanttoadd
"in his own words" DELPHI Medical Sensing Devices
"Even stephen Spielberg
couldn't have done this!"
"No one could replicate the
patriotism."
Ultra short-term devices
1-888-FOR-STROng
anOTHER CRed
it card BANKone.com
"Donald Rumsfield is to
blame!" per _The Post_ Metabolite without
ephredra "is that fair
criticism?"
ON-Line banking 1-800-Pet-MEDS
more than 100 reporters
more than 675 Tomahawks
oneaday aspirin
trustitwithallyourheart
two
posthumous medals award
ed instantaneously to suicide
bombers
"Burrows
was the first important photo-
grapher to do a whole war in color
-- another gain in verisimilitude...The
photographer's intentions do not
determine the meaning of the photograph,
which will have its own career,
blown by the whims and loyalties of the
di
verse communities that have use for
it."
-Sontag
Or do the snaps make their futures?
3/29
Underscore the
Brutality of the Regime
On the talkshow circuit is somebody
to blame
"Perhaps the only people with
the right to look at images of
suffering of this extreme or-
der are those who could do something to alleviate it....."
WHAT IS BEING ASKED OF ME?
"...The
rest of us are voyeurs, whether or
not we meant to be......
The ghoulish cruelties in _The disasters of War_ are meant
to awaken, shock, wound the
viewer. Goya's art, like
Dostoyevsky's, seem a turning point
in the history of
moral feelings and of sorrow - as
deep, as original, as de-
manding. With Goya, a new standard for responsiveness
to suffering enters art....
While
the image, like every image, is an
invitation to look, the
caption, more often than not,
insists on the difficulty of
doing just that. A voice badgers the viewer: can you bear
to look at this?. _Esto es malo_. _Esto es peor_. Why?
_Por
que_?" - Sontag
[Assan Akbar smiles from under a
blue commencement mortar]
music upbeats and strengthens under
the news inexorably crawls
across under all save the ads which
are underscored by their
800 or e.com banners ?underbanners?
Baghdad enjoys the most ferocious
bombing yet as OPERATION
IRAQI FREEDOM marches on
Showdown on IRAQ
Drones of
Doom with a view on
Booming
THUNderously
THREATENing
[you can check out our
interactive videos
and slide
shows at............ ]
Langer - "Yet the Times [October, 1862]
reporter
cannot resist the melodrama that
mere words supply (the
'dripping bodies' ready for 'the
gaping trenches'), while
reprehending the intolerable
realism of the image."
and who will get that knock at the
door?
and WHO will get that knock at the
door?
and who will get that KNOCK at the
door?
and who will GET that knock at the
door?
ourbraveist@wsmv.com 'and include
with the picture a short note on why you think they are our
bravest'
Baroque to rococo grotesque Tar-
get Iraq
Drones of
Doom with a view on
Booming
THUNderously
THREATENing
AND who?
and this found poem just in:
"The real thing may not be
fearsome enough, and
therefore needs to be enhanced; or
reenacted more con-
vincingly. Thus. the first newsreel ever made of a
battle --
a much-publicized incident in Cuba
during the Spanish-
American War of 1898 known as the
Battle of San Juan
Hill -- in fact shows a charge
staged shortly afterward by
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his
volunteer cavalry
unit, the Rough Riders, for the
Vitagraph cameramen,
the actual charge up the hill,
after it was filmed, having
been judged insufficiently
dramatic." - S. Sontag.
19-yr. old from Palestine rescued
in Nasiriyah
I
was that age when I did my tour.
My
daughter is that age
My
granddaughter will be,
I hope.
"The more remote or exotic the
place, the more likely
we are to have full frontal views
of the dead and dying.
Thus postcolonial Africa exists in
the consciousness of
the general public in the rich
world - besides through its
sexy music - mainly as a succession
of unforgettable pho-
tographs of large-eyed
victims,....These sights carry a
double message. they show a suffering that is outra-
geous, unjust, and should be
repaired. They confirm that
this is the sort of thing which
happens in the place. The
ubiquity of those photographs, and
those horrors, cannot
help but nourish belief in the
inevitability of tragedy in
the benighted or backward - that
is, poor - parts of the
world." - Langer
across my screen today from Reiner
Strasser from another list:
'In my sight "we want
peace" is great - but not enough!
(To get the shifting from oppose to
create/form/construct'
and from Ron's blog:
'Like Lyndon Johnson & Richard
Nixon before him, George W. Bush has provided just the sort of primary shared
point of agreement that has been lacking for so long. To some degree, the
response to date has been predictable, although dramatically accelerated. The
real issue, it seems to me, will come after the war, when the U.S. and the
ever-faithful United Kingdom are bungling the reconstruction of all that they
have laid waste. That is the point in this process that the left of my own
generation never successfully negotiated. To date, I do not see it being
addressed, but it's too soon & I would dearly love to be wrong in my
skepticism on this point.'
I think you are right that we
failed but perhaps that failure is worth examining? I know I washed out when things moved toward violent and there is
that potential here. I think Reiner may
be on to something but he is 'worn out' by his earlier cooperative
international poetry work and he suggests the UN (irrelevant as it is to
Bushites). I also think Langer rightly
points out that viewing, picturing, or writing about 'them' "cannot help
but nourish belief in the inevitability of tragedy"
Langer ends sadly with affirming
that we "Can't understand; can't imagine....And they are right" and I
don't have a solution, either, but think these things worth thinking on?
[realized that the language has thrown
me back on myself and not attending for the past few days: have been referring to Sontag, Susan as
Lerner, Judith and the only skeleton in my Freudian closet to save academics
the trouble would be a male Jay Lerner about the Time I knew a Marty who found
happiness later as Mary]
[no relevance I can see to the
poetry here]
Black Hawk Down
Once Again
reply from Reiner:
I prefer to think not in national
categories.
Bloody reality of politique throws
all back.
No - it is not as easy.
US out of balance - turns the world
out of balance (in a martial act).
The American left wing mute for a
too long time (after 0911) - made the
right wing louder (more and more
dominant).
Ah - still a democracy.
Voices form public - influence
governments.
Get back to communication
(>comprehension).
From a dualistic (evil<>good)
scheme (middle ages) to a open, complex world
view.
R.
Not yet totally 'worn out' ;)
reply to reply:
good><evil
Nietsche is alive?
Jessica Lynch has been
rescued. "That's great!"
Do we have to inhabit Bush's mind?
I'm depressed. What does that mean when my granddaughter
wants to play?
would suspect play may be the
solution and Sontag does in fact reference the grotesque but she may not be
aware. The other confusion here is that
the polls in Germany are not terribly positive at this point and they don't
think the USCentric role is a good role model for them. I may concur on this but money from the
Ukraine and former Russian (I presume what they mean is men from what was
Russia) influence in Iraqi strategy is tossed in to the pot
But the background music today
drums in an upbeat way
Dow UP
NASDAQ up
and Heraldo called the parody of a
parody and someone is only speaking out in controlled environments
Jessica from Palestine {does NOT
rhyme with rhyme or wine!!! they say] is debriefed
something debunked and spin of the
HARDball by the HARDballers flexing muscle on the screen as the Tall Texan of
the Grand Old Opry patriotically excoriates the Dixie Chick who slipped but the
stand up guys [in my experience stand-UP guys don't or at least those that talk
about it] are not the same Grantland Rice knew in his childhood here or those
Akbar wanted to be or those that were mown down at the Battle of Stones River
which is the name of the mall nearby filled with SUVs and cell phones. rabbit ears c'mon, let's hear some chatter
in the dugout trenches there, rev up the rhet.
"Is there a
hidden reference there?"
play?
"It doesn't get any more
realistic than this, wow, WOW, WOWIE"
"We are really embedded."
"Good shot to the
head!" "The Captain just
killed him in the foyer."
"We'd be anxious with these bad guys here, but these guys are
gung-ho."
"Let's continue listening
in. He's describing this so well."
[I don't think the correct term for a gyro is a 'grunt']
The "He said, 'We're Marines,
we took Iwo Jima, this is S=H=I=and I'll let you put in the other
letter.'" story has aired at least once in every 15 min. sound byte shown
today.
"It seems this has been
disconnected. This is the most
dramatice realistic reality TV.".
"We're in the thick of
it." as if we can't see and hear we are in the thick of it? "This is like 'Apocalypse Now'...I've
seen War movies..." "We saw
his head exPLOODe in front of us."
"This is like the Alamo, we see a charge coming in...
Al Kut on the Tigris, and you
probably heard and saw this sound byte numerous times in the days to come?
I had a patient see me this morning
who does have some problems with rumination (among tohewr things). She used to spend her free time watching her
collection of war movies. One of her
goals in therapy is to be able to watch more comedies.
This afternoon I will spend some
time with PTSDed vets
And just so I don't get my
credentials yanked let me say I did my time and received a letter of
commendation from both the US Army and the SDS.
progress that has been made
progress that is to be made
outbound
inbound firing
Ernie Pyle
_Men at War_
_rumor of war_
crying children crying one military
mother talked about talking to her children about their father's absence'
'and we have more video to show you
but right now we have the military minute and then more n Camp Lejeune...'
At what point do we need a bigger
screen? Does the war need to be speeded
up to end before March madness?
The lights are out in Baghdad
crying children crying last night a
child with her child sought shelter under a the wing of a journalist-doctor
crying children crying she may have
been tortured or may have shot a few. crying children crying
daughter's crying child crying but
not malnourished crying children crying the young gunners asked to share their
first experience of firefighting crying children crying
The obvious solution is
abstraction, removal, panning away, commercial break DOW down today along with
the NASDAQ and a bizarre mention of Nikes last night
As we end here we end here but how
and what are we ending. There might be error and rumors scattered
here - I did make an interesting error in my allusions while reading Sontag I
thought of her as Lerner and her thesis on form but also there is a letter I
could write to Margaret who wrote to us or to Margaret the mother of my mother
but Margaret is a better muse as I heard her read once on Center Street where
she visited as she visited per Radcliff and Harvard but her visit to Center
Street was without awareness of it's glory days strode by Golda and it's pits
strode by Oprah before the tanks moved in and now mixed with they, those
immigrants while we visited and listened.
There is no simple answer to Atwood save that we can change as we have
but what is the simple ending here as a Sontag tableau or Iwo Jima or storming
Baghdad or the Four Horsemen of Grantland's days or the Stone River Grays
reenacted yearly or next month's Jazz Fest about jazz with none?
"Your exclusive insiders' view
of thinking like a Republican/Democrat as the stock-market bubble rhetorically
bursts and the bursts at little resistance...."
[Will they last?]
In the end there is there no form
to make sense of this?
networks and soundbites John Wayne
James was not fazed by 9/11 and the land has not noticed the war looks like
they are still safe then, Margaret?