And other offerings; 2004 to 10/29/17
Absolutely and Disruptively Outside the Box
I’m trying to think of an outside the box way of saying “outside the box”.
I’m trying to think of a word to disrupt the word “disrupt”
I absolutely want to find another way to say “very yes”.
I get “outside the box” and “disruption” and “absolutely”, I just want to figure out what will be next.
But, I absolutely can’t get far enough outside the box to disrupt.
-H Lipke
An Old Liberal Apologize
or
On Reading News Stories about How the Liberals Missed the Feelings in the Heartland.
Here I am working in the dark like an old coal miner suffering, choking, gagging, fearing the canary’s death, or wrong survival.
In my mind: I am now like the pictures of the miners caked with execrable dust and grime, raging at what threatens and abuses me.
Rise up in defense.
!No More Mining Young Orphans! reads my crazed sign.
Chanting their phrases:
Make the clean jobs
Mine the wind,
Mine the sun,
out in field,
lab and factory.
Not choking,
Help us all
not choke and drown.
Wait, No, could it really be that the real coal miners mock the wind farm and the solar panels and those who would help them and bring the end to the dirt and the working in the dark and the filthy poison rivers? From deep in their souls they mock and scorn the old liberal who can now only confess he was wrong. Now they love the huckster and hate the school marm. “Never let her fight for us!” they declaim.
…___…
Forgive me coal miner for not understanding that when you were born, on that day when the sun didn’t shine and you picked up your shovel and went to the mine, I didn’t understand that it was what you wanted, what you would die for to die from. Silly me, I thought that baby coal miner wanted to go to school.
– H Lipke
The old man has had a career of helping combat veterans find some comfort despite the horrors of war, the loss of friends, the loss of their health and the loss of their illusions.
The old man suddenly realizes:
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the parts about war happening when you are 20, not 65,
the there is not much immediate terror,
that you can usually chose not to do horrible things,
and that you don’t have to kill anyone and…
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Blacks and Whites fighting
He was mad
And started to ball them out
Both said, “He started it.”
With whom did God agree?
© 2013 Howard Lipke and Aaron Surrain