the black ceramic cat head didnt
gag or choke when he stuck a burnt match deep in its mouth
it was always coy and civil
handpainted the back of it was adorned with florid symbols he had never seen anywhere elsewho
knew what they meant or even if the curlicues
and their parts werent duplicitous suggesting a sorted array of interpretations
Interpretationshe could easily recall
Drumpfs tweet a particularly nauseous attack bearing the Star of David that he
defended by saying it wasnt rather it was a sheriffs badge and later his son
following in his fathers footsteps through dogshit retweeted a friends item
The Deplorables which coddled in its lineup the alt-rights* anti-Semitic neo-Nazi
character Pepe the Frog he too pleaded
ignorance
in a pigs eye incredulous!
no need to interpret
but he was into symbols semiotics and coming to it late he studied it
for pleasure and distraction
he was interested in extracting
meanings their purpose
he wasnt prone to wearing
jewelry(effete)
though he did wear a babypin as a sign
a pin he used to diaper his daughters
he had no idea where its mate or
mates disappeared
that was of another time another
era in a century gone
he did remember buying them
fingering the plain cardboard placard the clear plastic housing containing them shaking them like a rattle which distracted the cashier unduly
he was good at necessity
his wife was deft at outfits melding
coloursHa presentation
she said she didnt want him
dressing them like Polaks
which tongue-in-cheek their
inside joke was hilarious
he was a Polak
raising their girls swept away
the remainder of their Twenties all of their Thirties and when they broke into their Forties he thought the things they wanted to do when they were alone when the girls
off on their own they would begin a new era
but his wife died
their plans to relish that
timeGone
that desired deserved time
swirled slowly eddied slowly and went down the drain
he saw every part as it disappeared
then there was nothing but the swirl of clean clear
water
then that water was foetid by
Bushwhacker it cleared a little under a too-reserved Obama
now Drumpf came to shit in it
now Drumpf came to shit in it
he mourned briefly truly
then he redoubled his argumentshe wouldnt wait to see he saw
and he recalled Karl Popper who
popped into his mindnot reluctantly but
forcefully The Open Society and Its Enemies:
“If . . . harsh words are
spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my
motive is not,
I hope, the wish to belittle them. It springs rather from my
conviction that if we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the
habit of deference to great men. Great men may make great mistakes . . . some of
the greatest leaders of the past supported the perennial attack on freedom and
reason. Their influence, too rarely challenged, continues to mislead those on
whose defence civilization depends, and to divide them. The responsibility for
this tragic and possibly fatal division becomes ours if we hesitate to be
outspoken in our criticism of what admittedly is part of our intellectual heritage.
“By our reluctance to criticize a part of
it, we may help to destroy it all.”**
he knew a little bit about destruction and the ease of it nearly effortless
he knew a lot more about creation
hed be a devout critic
on the watch for its every sign
1445, Friday,
9 12. 16
1123, Saturday,
10 12. 16
Star of David https://mic.com/articles/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists#.DZI11ladU
** The Preface of The Open Society
and Its Enemies https://archive.org/stream/opensocietyandit033120mbp/opensocietyandit033120mbp_djvu.txt
Five Man Electrical Band Signs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYsBDmqJfjQ
