London
United Kingdom
mikepars
Saturday 21st Dec.2019When I look for gold
for John Stiles
(Silence)
Strongly
Strangely
slowly;
lke a child in water
a child I once cared for.
Seems to me I am more what Barthes describes as a "clerk"
than a priestly "author".
Post-revolutionary I might be
but there is still a narcissism, an enjoyment,
sound, even song.
Is there the fragmentation of ecstasy...?
Is there fragmentation in ecstasy?
I'm in a lecture.
Alex Duttman is in the chair.
Christophe Merke is discussing chapters 1-5 in Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory". Someone eulogises Beckett.
I look at the pen in Merke's hands,
he's so confident it still has the top on.
It has a white dot,
which means its a "Parker",
(actually it means it"s a Paper-Mate Florian later explains,
joking that Merke is parking his thoughts in theory.)
Anyway, whatever it is, it's not gold
Like the one I used to have,
the one I was given in Truro
and which I lost when I worked on the parks in Southwark.
I look around the room,
there is hardly any gold anywhere
Walking back that evening, I promise myself, that i will buy some when I get paid.
Days pass, til it's Monday evening.
I'm so tired I go to bed early
trembling like a baby.
Is this flu or tiredness?
Kleinian renegotiation
or Lacanian fragmentation?
Rebirth or regression?
Was it induced by the Vivaldi I was listening to earlier?
Going to bed isn"t easy anymore.
Mike Parsons
“Tout chrétien a une double mission : chercher à voir Jésus et permettre aux autres de le voir...Rappelons que Dieu n’est pas toujours là où nous pensons le trouver. C’est sur la Croix que Dieu se donne à voir : nous ne le voyons vraiment que quand nous contemplons le visage défiguré de Jésus crucifié. L’heure de Jésus, c’est l’heure de sa mort et de sa glorification. Dans cette mort, le salut s’est ouvert à tous : il n’y a plus ni Juifs, ni Grecs…” (Père Jean-Paul Sagadou, assomptionniste)
"... as a tortoise draws in its limbs,
The wise can draw in their senses at will.
Though aspirants abstain from sense pleasures,
They will still crave for them. These cravings all
Disappear when they see the Lord of Love.
For even of those who tread the path,
The stormy senses can sweep off the mind.
But they live in wisdom who subdue them,
and keep their minds ever absorbed in Me.
p.393 The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
Volume 1 The End of Sorrow by Eknath Easwaran
"The deepest root of the evils and iniquities which fill the industrial world is the subjection of labour to capital, and the enormous share which the possessors of the instruments of production are able to take from the produce."
John Stuart Mill
Chapter XIII The Right Of Labour To Profit
from The Co-operative Movement Today by G J Holyoake Methuen 1903
Profit in the store is the dividend of custom; profit in the workshop is the dividend of labour. Co-operators therefore maintain that the workman is entitled to a dividend from the gains of the workshop.
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Christmas Box
“And then the presents, after the Christmas box.”
Dylan Thomas - “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”it was morning
And its true,
everything does fit together.
I believe that.
That is faith,
poetry, politics, religion,
becoming a father.
It’s a sort of gliding through life,
knowing that there will be enough time
and money
for Christmas to happen.
A confidence, faith, love, joy, happiness.
An opposition,
An endurance.
Another 100 years.
another generation,
another Christmas box.
Mike Parsons
Saturday 21st Dec.2019 Kohn
for a lockdown lullaby, you can't beat him.
We have to share and watch it as well
our bedroom window on a London Road,
blinds turned inversely, I am certain
there are repeat glances from bus stop across
the street, it is not hard to see how Hitchcock might
have had a dim view of people
I am watching your big screen TV, you are trying
to sleep, it is like we are in a kind of plush coffin with
satiny lining, prisoners mutually polite in bed
like campers on a business trip
or two priests together in a tea room in a school of
theology
waiting for the other to confess
Or whatever///
I suppose it would be all right if it wasn"t for the elbows
They are quite sharp and I know that you stick them into me
To let me know you wish we were in a biggger place,
sleeping in a bigger bed.
LAAF needs money for leaflets, room bookings etc. If you would like to donate please make cheques to:
EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS and send to ELAAF’s postal address.
EAST LONDON AGAINST ARMS FAIRS
c/o Garden Cafe,
7 Cundy Road,
E16 3DJ
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Christmas Box
“And then the presents, after the Christmas box.”
Dylan Thomas - “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”it was morning
And its true,
everything does fit together.
I believe that.
That is faith,
poetry, politics, religion,
becoming a father.
It’s a sort of gliding through life,
knowing that there will be enough time
and money
for Christmas to happen.
A confidence, faith, love, joy, happiness.
An opposition,
An endurance.
Another 100 years.
another generation,
another Christmas box.
Mike Parsons
Saturday 21st December 2019
EAST LONDON
AGAINST ARMS FAIRS
Musical Protests
NO ARMS FAIRS!
ExCeL Centre
Custom House
E16 1XL
Off Custom House DLR
Watch this space for the next protest
We need more musicians, singers, leafleters, petition collectors, poster holders.
We would welcome jugglers, dancers, mime artists etc.
Future dates until Arms Fair is cancelled
www.elaaf.org
elaaf@hotmail.co.uk
Stop the Arms Fairs
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