Category: Art & Culture

JUNE 29 (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

A Golden Shovel Poem:

We see dimly in the Present what is small and what is great,           
Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn the iron helm of fate,       
But the soul is still oracular; amid the market’s din, 
List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic cave within,—     
“They enslave their children’s children who make compromise with sin.” 

–James Russel Lowell–
The Present Crisis
(1845)

JUNE 28 (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

Clerihews:

The Impuritan William Plaine
by Puritans was slain
back in 1646 [not on this day]
for being a “bundle of sticks.”

JUNE 25 (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

A Soliloquy–
This author sits at his computer researching and talking to himself as he types:

What can I find in history? 
Ah look!
They say that J.F.K announced his engagement to “Jackie” today, 
on June 25, 1953. 
This is an odd coincidence since 
just last night I watched a comedy skit which insisted he was gay, or bi in any case.

JUNE 24 (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

A Monologue:

“WHO AM I?”

THE ERECTION OF A DELUSION

or,
The Delusion of An Erection

DRAMATIS PERSONA:
Confused Teenage Girl.

The teenage girl speaks on the phone with her friend, revealing her state of mind.

CONFUSED TEENAGE GIRL:I have been driven mad, almost mad,
by a question that wont stop sweeping through my mind.
It’s powerful.
“Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?”

JUNE 19 (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

An Eclogue:

KONSYNEAS:
I planned a simple trip home
to inspect the yields of my Father’s fields,
but saw in the air a drone;

and rows of new apartments
I wept when I found nearly all around,
a sight that my heart resents.

Traffic noise from a new road
rather than bird songs,
for which my heart longs,
wounded my ears like a goad.

JUNE 15th (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

Some modern heads are like a marble bust,
a bust of Zeus, filled with foul perverse lust.
Most hideous thoughts make them crack a smile.
That’s why they serve old Zeus, a pedophile.

Some who profess to be wise are quite dumb
when they presume to resume a custom
which, from the greatest men, received due scorn,
a deadly custom by which no life’s born.

Same-sex deviants, it can’t be denied,
have already died in spirit. They’ve died.
Their sexual classicism’s contrived.
But what if ancient wisdom was revived?

JUNE 12th (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

The supreme Court ruled in 67,
something that would please Moses in heaven.
Mixed race marriages can’t be banned by states.
Such racism the Almighty God hates.

Just recall God’s wrath on Miriam’s face,
when, to Moses’s wife, she showed no grace.
Our sin not skin is a changeable choice.
May just men punish those who sex-change boys!

JUNE 11th (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

‘On that sea the Charybdis of luxury devours salvation; there with virginal countenance the Scylla of passion, smiling, lures chastity to shipwreck. Here is a barbarian shore, here the pirate Devil with his comrades carries chains of bondage. Do not trust him; do not be careless, even if the sea smiles like the quiet waters of a lake, even if the topmost surface of the quiescent element barely curls, this plain holds great mountains; within is peril; within is the enemy. Quick with the halyards, lower the sails. Let the cross of the ship’s yard be fastened on the bows; that calm is a storm.'”

JUNE 7th (PRIDE STRIPT & WHIPT)

“Confucius said, ‘There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth, when the physical powers are not yet settled, he guards against lust. When he is strong and the physical powers are full of vigor, he guards against quarrelsomeness. When he is old, and the animal powers are decayed, he guards against covetousness.'”

—Confucius—
The Analects, ch. 16
(5th century B.C.)

EYESOAP’S FABLES: THE MAN AND THE APES

A group of apes did an experiment on a man. They drew a series of parallel lines, from thick and dark to thin and light, bold to faint. They offered the man a genuine gold watch if he would walk to and step over the first bold line.