i got an email the other day letting me know that two of my poems, Midnight Trains and the emptiness of a moonless night, have been accepted to appear in the autumn issue (issue #2) of trespass magazine. trespass is a new literary journal with much promise, so i'm excited about this. check out their website and submit some of your own stuff.
i heard this morning that Rosa Parks died last night, at the age of 92. it's weird to think that such a little, old lady could've sparked such a momentous and historic time. i was thinking, too, that most of the people who took up the civil rights movement are now dead. i hope this is a piece of history we aren't doomed to repeat. though, i wouldn't be too damn sure with people like this in the world. eugenics is wrong on so many levels, but if i were to be in charge of implementing it, the parents of these girls certainly would be on the top of the list. as would similar people.
and, just to show i'm not some kind of fascist, #1 to be sterilized would be yours truly.
but, seriously, 50 years later and there's not much different. only we're more jaded and less compassionate and more insular.
3 comments:
justin,
Holy Crap! I went to that link you have up and I am horrified. Just disgusted. I have spent the last fifteen years making sure my children know...people are people...we aren't better than anyone...And to see that....just sickening....Those poor children. That's just about the most awful thing I've seen in a long time.
Kat-
sick, huh? i know this shit exists, and i know racism and prejudice of all sort always will, but to see these little girls do this shit is just sickening.
Chris,
well said. it's obviously brainwashing by the mother, and she even says as much in the interview. but, it's everywhere. religion is the same. like at 8 years old kids are able to choose for themselves whether they want to be baptized or have first communion or whatever. like they even are ABLE to figure that shit out?
whatever. let them sing their ridiculous little racist songs. fuck 'em.
as for the ink, it never gets old receiving an acceptance, huh? :)
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