TOM CLARK: everything is one thing after another (Typhoon)

Blood stains the ground at a gas station where the reporter of the Diario de Acayucan, Candido Rios Vazquez, was murdered in Hueyapan de Ocampo, Veracruz state, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The National Human Rights Commission said that Rios was the ninth journalist slain so far this year in Mexico. Rios reportedly had been threatened repeatedly since 2012 by a former mayor of Hueyapan de Ocampo.: photo by Felix Marquez/AP, 23 August 2017

Josephine Miles: Belief

Mother said to call her if the H-bomb exploded

And I said I would, and it about did

When Louis my brother robbed a service station

And lay cursing on the oily cement in handcuffs.

But by that time it was too late to tell Mother,

She was too sick to worry the life out of her

Over why why. Causation is sequence

And everything is one thing after another.

Besides, my other brother, Eddie, had got to be President,

And you can't ask too much of one family.

The chances were as good for a good future

As bad for a bad one.

Therefore it was surprising that, as we kept the newspapers from Mother,
She died feeling responsible for a disaster unverified,
Murmuring, in her sleep as it seemed, the ancient slogan
Noblesse oblige.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): Belief, 1955, from Collected Poems 1930-1985

Joshua Wong addresses the media before being sentenced at Hong Kong’s High Court @AFP @AFPphoto: image via Anthony Wallace @AntAFP, 17 August 2017

This anecdote in @wpjenna's piece on Trump's rally breaks my heart a little bit.: image via Sara Murray @SaraMurray, 23 August 2017

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, as he returns from Reno, Nev.: photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP, 23 August 2017

The remains of one of the recently discovered 19th century Chinese immigrants lies at Huaca Bellavista in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. According to the Ministry of Culture of Peru, the tombs where located in a pre-Inca sacred site because Chinese immigrants could not be buried in the Catholic cemeteries of the time.: photo by Martin Mejia/AP, 24 August 2017

young guns [Phuket, Thailand]: photo by polod, 8 October 2016

La destrucción del tifón #Hato en Macao #Diaenimages; Por @AntAFP #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @AFPespanol, 24 August 2017

cope [Nesat, Taiwan]: photo by Tom Kondrat, 2 August 2017

#China Severe Typhoon Hato slams into Hong Kong Photo @AntAFP #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPPhoto, 23 August 2017

People play in the strong wind from Typhoon Hato on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. A powerful typhoon barreled into Hong Kong on Wednesday, forcing offices and schools to close and leaving flooded streets, shattered windows and hundreds of canceled flights in its wake. Typhoon Hato came within 60 kilometers (37 miles) of Hong Kong, close enough to be considered a direct hit under Hong Kong's storm warning system. It was headed toward the western side of mainland China's Pearl River Delta.: photo by Vincent Yu/AP, 23 August 2017

People bang on the window as they're trapped inside a bank that locked its doors when clashes broke out between striking teachers and police who fired tear gas and rubber bullets, near Congress in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Public school teachers are on strike to demand better labor conditions.: photo by Martin Mejia/AP, 24 August 2017

Sailors on the Republic of Singapore Navy's RSS Brave cast off from a berth at the Tuas naval base on a search and rescue mission for the USS John S. McCain's missing sailors on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017 in Singapore. Aircraft and ships from the navies of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia are searching seas east of Singapore where the collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker happened early Monday.: photo by Wong Maye-E/AP, 24 August 2017

National Police remove protesting high school students who chained themselves to the Ministry of Education in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The students are demanding education reform, including free access to school for all ages.: photo by Esteban Felix/AP, 23 August 2017

A participant jumps from the window during an anti-terror drill as a part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise at National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. As North Korea vowed "merciless retaliation" against U.S.-South Korean military drills that it claims are an invasion rehearsal, senior U.S. military commanders on Tuesday dismissed calls to pause or downsize exercises they called crucial to countering a clear threat from Pyongyang.: photo by Lee Jin-man/AP, 23 August 2017

Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell, center, tags out Baltimore Orioles' Tim Beckham as Beckham leaps toward home plate on Jonathan Schoop's pop out in the seventh inning of a baseball game in Baltimore, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. Also pictured at bottom right is umpire Angel Hernandez. Baltimore won 8-7 in 12 innings.: photo by Patrick Semansky/AP, 23 August 2017

A land art painting by French artist Saype, depicting a Volkswagen (VW) bus, is pictured on a hill in Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The artwork covering approximately 4200 square meters was produced with over 400 liters of biodegradable paint made from natural pigments, water and a milk protein and is part of the upcoming 20th international VW festival.: photo by Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP, 23 August 2017

#11: photo by ashnolo, 30 July 2017

Kolkata 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 31 January 2017

woman in car: photo by tonywoodphoto, 14 October 2016

driver [Thailand]: photo by ISSARET CHALERMSOPONE, 3 June 2017

Chicago, IL.: photo by Mike McCawley, 21 August 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Marco, 18 August 2017

smokeroom. Fukuoka, Japan.: photo by TC, 2 May 2017

Seoul: photo by Brendan O Sé, 11 August 2016

Untitled [nyc]: photo by Matt Anderson, 9 August 2017

dimensions. Yamaguchi, Japan.: photo by TC, 3 May 2017

So Seoul: photo by Brendan O Sé, 10 August 2016

asahi. Fukuoka, Japan.: photo by TC, 6 May 2017

Whip. Bangkok, Thailand.: photo by Job Jetwichan Chaowadee, 14 August 2017

[untitled]: photo by Setsiri Silapasuwanchai, 7 January 2017

Somewhere In Normandy II | by Punkroyaltiger

Somewhere in Normandy II: photo by Punkroyaltiger, 22 August 2017

LA: photo by Missy Prince, 12 May 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Missy Prince, 16 August 2017

Delhi, India 2016: photo by Johannes Saal, 14 December 2016

Untitled [Taiwan]: photo by Liszt Chang, 20 August 2017

Beerburrum Pine Plantation, Glasshouse Mountains [Australia]: photo by Chris Fagerlund, 24 July 2017

[Untitled]: photo by wide open source, 23 August 2017

[Untitled]: photo by gilles, 9 August 2017

#13: photo by THANASORN JANEKANJIT, 20 August 2017

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TC25 August 2017 at 09:04

Glen Campbell: By the Time I Get To Phoenix (live)

Take me to the alley by Gregory Porter at Cobb Energy (6.23.17)

The Jaynettes: Sally Go Round the Roses (1963)

Niela Miller: Baby Please Don't Go To Town (1962)

Tim Rose: Hey Joe (live 1967)

QMS: Mona (live, Sebastopol, early 1970)
Hilton25 August 2017 at 10:56
Chinese went to Peru to mine guano at the same time as they went to the US to work on the transcontinental railroad. The fact that they could find bones today is an indication how mistreated they were, particularly as compared to those who worked on the railroad (which was no paradise). It's the same group of people from Guangdong who went to Peru and Cuba (sugar cane) and the US. Peru and Cuba Chinese were indentured workers, basically enslaved and more accurately termed "coolies." In the US they were free workers who signed contract to repay loans for boat fare. (The Big Four were anti-slavery Republicans and they made sure the workers were not indentured to fend off criticism.) The workers also paid a small amount for Chinese doctors along the work route and for burial expenses. Tradition had it that someone who died was buried for several years, until the flesh rotted from the bones, then the bones were ritually gathered together in a box (sitting up) and sent back home to be buried in the village. It's very important to be returned home. So, the fact that they found bones indicates that he was killed in a terrible accident and his body could not be recovered - or the workers were so exploited that they didn't even have the means to ship the bones of the dead back home. Workers were so mistreated in Cuba that the Qing Dynasty sent an investigative team there, did excellent research very useful to learning about the railroad workers (again, same group of people), and the Empire banned any more workers from going to Cuba because of the horrific treatment.
TC25 August 2017 at 21:33
Thanks very much Hilton, would that a wise historian might arrive to help out with captioning for every picture here.

When I picked out that one (in some ways an odd selection), and placed it where I did (immediate funerary post-phoenix drumpf adjacency), I did indeed have some of that same history in mind, of course, among other things.

The photo kicks off eerie ripple effects of horror reflection, as so often with unexpected images, when history abruptly emerges with its shadow truths to interrupt and trouble the present.

The past now always bearing down on us, perhaps not unlike these great global atmospheric movements, uncontrollable climate genie our brainless spawn having popped bottle to emerge as itself in turn a historical actor for good and all never for better always worse -- by which we can and may yet all be blown away and reduced to tomb dust...

I mean massive East Asian monsoon season Hong Kong typhoon Bay of Bengal rising rising, all spiralling unwinding corkscrewing east back to west, and over at the other end intrepid jackrabbit Harvey just hopping onshore, not to mention all that good slipping, sliding and sinking the signs here say lies just round the tippy listing corner, if you get what I mean.
Hilton26 August 2017 at 21:18
I'm just blabbering because Chinese railroad workers (and related things) is what I'm working on now. You set off an involuntary lecture. Your image and text poems are psychic dream/reality scapes of great power. I'm addicted to them.

Friday, 25 August 2017

everything is one thing after another (Typhoon)

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