Are they Mad?!

Conservative Republicans are MAD

They are mad they lost the civil war
They are mad that people received civil rights
They are mad women vote
They are mad that women have choice

They are mad that corporations need to pull their weight
They are mad that gays exist
They are mad that people seek the American Dream
They are mad that there’s more than one religion

They are mad about guns
They are mad that time marches by
Mad that technology advances
Mad about people NOT dying on the streets for free vs receiving universal care

Mad that people can band together to fight for safer work places, a safer environment, a safer world
Mad that they have to wear helmets
Mad that they have to wear a seat belt
Mad that they can’t beat their wives
Mad that they cannot drink and drive

Mad that freedom for others contravenes their world views
Mad if diplomacy is not at the end of a barrel
Mad about the Presidency
Mad about the President
Mad if it is not their GUY…
Mad that they are losing THEIR country
Mad! Mad! Mad!

Farrakhan on Libya

Words worth listening to from a man I never listen to

Come Live With Me And Be My Love - Christopher Marlowe

Come Live With Me and Be My Love
by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

Tragedy in Japan

Insane!  Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Fires, Nuclear Radiation...just when it all seems hopeless, it gets worse!

John Donne - The Good-Morrow

THE GOOD-MORROW.


by John Donne

I WONDER by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved ? were we not wean'd till then ?
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den ?
'Twas so ; but this, all pleasures fancies be ;
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear ;
For love all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone ;
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown ;
Let us possess one world ; each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp north, without declining west ?
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.