I Bet You

ice cubes on a red-hot stove will melt.
a drowning man's very first word is help.
if you bet on a horse and the horse don't win, you lose.
if you try to sit on air, you're gonna fall.

take a car without fuel, it ain't gonna move.
a carpenter can't build his house without his tools.
if your shoes are too small, they hurt your feet.
you can't know what's going on if you sleep.

-- Barnes / Clinton / Lindsey (Funkadelic) 1970

Circles

from Essays: First Series
Nature centres into balls,
And her proud ephemerals,
Fast to surface and outside,
Scan the profile of the sphere;
Knew they what that signified,
A new genesis were here.

ESSAY X _Circles
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world....
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens....
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees....

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

Amerimacka

The land of the free, built on slavery
Our consciousness in captivity
The promised land is the liar's den
Culture of greed has got to end
-- Garza / Hilton (Thievery Corp.) 2005

myth vs. truth

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
-- John F. Kennedy (1962)