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                                                                                                                           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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"Nietzsche understood, having lived it himself, what constitutes the mystery of a philosopher's life.  The philosopher appropriates the ascetic virtues - humility, poverty, chastity - and makes them serve ends completely his own, extraordinary ends that are not ascetic at all in fact.  He makes them the expression of his singularity.  They are not moral ends in his case, or religious means to another life , but rather the "effects" of philosophy itself.  For there is absolutely no other life for the philosopher.  Humility, poverty, and chastity become the effects of an an especially rich and superabundant life, sufficiently powerful to have conquered thought and subordinated every other instinct to itself.  This is what Spinoza calls Nature: a life no longer lived on the basis of need, in terms of causes and effects.  Humility, poverty, chastity are his (the philosopher's) way of being a grand vivant, of making a temple of his own body, for a cause that is all too proud, all too rich, all too sensual.  So that by attacking the philosopher, people know the shame of attacking a modest, poor, and chaste appearance, which increases their impotent rage tenfold; and the philospher offers no purchase, although he takes every blow."
        Gilles  Deleuze - Spinoza: practical philosophy
 
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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.

The Red Flag 

  

 

Elbows in Bed

By John Stiles

 

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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scraptrident.org 

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Contact us to be in touch and get latest info at

elaaf@hotmail.co.uk

 

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

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                elaaf@hotmail.co.uk

     Stop the Arms Fairs

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