one of my friends grew up in africa. that was because his parents
belonged to the salvation army and they were sent there as
"missionaries". i just used scare quotes. he can speak some african
language which i can't understand either. they built a school from
scratch - they'd gone there with nothing except goodwill. the school got
burnt down and they were hunted away
the guns were pointed at them
when some local war broke out.
that's why my friend was sent back to a boarding school in australia when he
was about 12. his parents went back and re built the school after the
war died down a bit. they relied on donations.
>Canela,
>
>Me verg–d–k, it seems. I have been accused of being single-minded like one
>of those smart bombs, drive'm through a doorway at three thousand miles,
>close the door on the way in. I need some new metaphors -- back to the
>Salvation Army, the Good Will.
>
>I do really like that poem.
>
>Bill
>
>(Of course, the trajectory of wryness is not innocent either, just had to
>say that. It diverts.)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: canela [mailto:canela@xxx.edu]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 8:55 PM
> > To: fishbreath@somewhere.net
> > Subject: re: meanwhile, in a rich country...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Aim, Bill. I was talking about aim. Options for pointing. Trajectories.
> > Interpretation. And I was still just being wry.
> >
> > Also, I was thinking about a poem by Charles Ortleb, which begins with
> > the inscription, "Sexuality grows out of the barrel of a gun. --Homage
> > to Jancso." The poem continues:
> >
> >
> > In Vietnam
> > eels live in the water
> > until they are stuffed
> > into the vaginas of the opposition.
> > Do not think of the women.
> > Think of the eel:
> > bloodstained, hungry,
> > staring out of
> > the cunt
> > having completed
> > a political journey.
> > ... Chile,
> > Cuba,
> > Lawrence, Kansas,
> > Dallas, Texas
> > force and sexuality
> > go together
> > like men with men
> > on horses,
> > like whips and marriages.
> > Force seeks sexuality,
> > sexuality seeks
> > out force.
> > There is all you need to know.
> >
> > -- from "Militerotics"
> >
> >
> > 'Tis the season...
> >
> >
> >
> > ~Canela
> >
> >
> >
> > > Is the gun we're talking about a penis? I thought it was just a
> > gun (that
> > > you put in my hand ... or someone's hand, your hand?) This was about
> > > responsibility.
> > >
> > > Maybe I slipped.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: canela [mailto:canela@xxx.edu]
> > >> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:06 AM
> > >> To: fishbreath@somewhere.net
> > >> Subject: Re: meanwhile, in a rich country...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> There are other options. Like: point that thing the other way.
> > >>
> > >> A poet says that men know nothing of sex. "Ask a man what sex
> > is/ and he
> > >> will show you his penis."
> > >>
> > >> I don't think that's necessarily true. It's a question of
> > >> interpretation. Some men will point to you.
> > >>
> > >> ~Canela
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > Sure, I understand the point. But I'm still trying to decide
> > >> what to do with
> > >> > the gun in my hand, shoot myself or someone else.
> > >> >
> > >> > Bill
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >> It was an irony. Desiccated perversion. That was the point.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> ~Canela
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> > by whom?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> >> Soldiers for "civilization" should all be shot.
> > >> >>
> > >> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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