READ THIS, ROMNEY

I've just rec'd this e-mail from my son Alex (51, PhD Columbia/Urban Anthropology):

Dear Bill,

Actually, something has come up in terms of unexpected costs. I just spent about $400 for extra copies of textbooks to put on reserve in the library for students in my classes who can't afford to buy the book themselves. I'm also spending about $100 on photocopying for my larger-than-expected classes. I won't get reimbursed for these costs. I could use an investment or loan of $500 to get me going this semester. Do you think you can swing that?

Thanks,

Love, 

Alex 

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He teaches health sciences at City University's York College campus in Queens.

I  immed .mailed  him a $500 ck.

ROBORYAN

Journalism rises
from the wastland 
of mere transcription

suddenly asking questions 
not merely transcribing

RoboRyan's caught unprepared,
his baby-blue eyes blinking
until his lie-gears engage.

(11 SEP 12, Santa Clara CA)  

what we deserve

WHAT WE DESERVE

“What do we deserve?

What makes us Great!

We're here to tell you

we can have it all again!

We only have to shout:
We are The Greatest!”

Romney pauses, empty,

doubtless, shouting:

'What do we deserve?

What makes us Great!

We are The Greatest!”

(01 SEP 12, Santa Clara CA)v2

PROB@BLY

PROB@BLY

To Dave Keefer

If the present financial-system

(as they say) 'works well for you'

pro forma conservativism follows,

justified by "The System Works!"

(until recently/now.) What 'works'

in this late-neocapitalist world?

Survival by any means (probably)

as we (probably) transition

to something new/worse,

frightening us all (but the 1%)

If I didn't have the internet,

I'd be quite miserable; here

I sound sane & reasonable…

(17 MAY 12,Santa Clara CA)v5

TAX TIME

In the cold back room

golders stack gold coins;

coincidentally as they’re

increasing their wealth

increMentally, the world’s

wealth’s being tallied,

told out metallically.

Specie still speaks loudly

in gold bars stacked up

to lie in silent rooms, but

the world’s money moves

digitally over copper wires,

in satellite-signal pulses.

Old golders feel oblivious

to this until they cash out

in curious tesselated codes.

Tax-time translates them all.

(17 APR 12, Santa Clara CA)v3

18 APR 12 on The New Verse News

www.newversenews.blogspot.com 

Cooperate

Cooperate

for George Lakoff

IF we ever hope to recover
value from Values, we'd
better make ours appealing:
We cooperate; They compete.

(13 MAR 12, Santa Clara CA)v4