Bondi, Sydney, Australia

Go to bed and read?
Or slather myself in goose-fat and throw myself from a second story window?

hmmmm....

Freestyle Friends - Matt Furie

This week Pope Benedict XVI, the most important Christian authority in the world cited an obscure Medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman".
Expect the outrage wrought by a Danish cartoonist late last year to appear the most casual of Sunday rallies by comparison to the demonstrations of anti-Western sentiment this latest wretched piece of stupidity will cause....


And just to take added personal umbrage to yet another irony he proferred -

" In the Western world it is widely held that only positivistic reason and the forms of philosophy based on it are universally valid. Yet the world's profoundly religious cultures see this exclusion of the divine from the universality of reason as an attack on their most profound convictions. A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures. "


This statement calls into question all possibility of genuine human understanding from those of a secular nature...
A deep, intrinsic awareness of Identity, the nature of faith, of reason, morality, or the full spectrum of our diverse human emotions, is not peculiar to those of a devotional nature.




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–noun


1. a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
2. something harmful or pernicious, as to happiness or well-being: the poison of slander.
3. Slang. any variety of alcoholic liquor: Name your poison!
–verb (used with object)
4. to administer poison to (a person or animal).
5. to kill or injure with or as if with poison.
6. to put poison into or upon; saturate with poison: to poison food.
7. to ruin, vitiate, or corrupt: Hatred had poisoned his mind.
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–adjective
9. causing poisoning; poisonous: a poison shrub.

—Synonyms 1. Poison, toxin, venom are terms for any substance that injures the health or destroys life when absorbed into the system, esp. of a higher animal.

Two aging scarecrows
Ernest & Jeffrey
grow like Crooked Birch
amongst the wildflowers and grasshopper

Moose their muse
they eat hearty bowls
of chowder and baked potatoes

Dancing deer
cross roads
and desire
for a speeding zodiac
that will afford them a clearer view
of seal, whale, and pluvver
drawing them closer
to bald eagle
high above

Top: End of the Skyline Trail, Cape Breton National Park
Bottom: Ingonish, Cape Breton