TOM CLARK: Need | Ole smoky eye goes down bobble college road (bringin' it back home to ouachita)

+++ [Montréal]: photo by a v e n i d a o n c e, December 2013

need

Where we live, growing up means growing out of an imaginal need

to have pig and hamburger. This is a culturally induced need not a real need.

We will not die of not having pig and hamburger. We might die of having pig and

hamburger but if we do we won't really mind because pig and hamburger is our culture.

Unless it isn't, unless it isn't, unless it isn't. We love everything

that is familiar, unless we don't, unless we don't. That which is most familiar

is that which we love the most, unless we don't. We love us some us

even as we don't love us some you. You are not familiar to us.

Unless you are. We don't love everything you are that is not

familiar to us. We are somewhat limited in this respect. We are

far from every need that is not culturally induced by us. This limits us

but it's not a problem because we have pig and hamburger, have pig and hamburger.

We are fond of everything that is us. We have no critical sense

in respect to us and/or who we are. We find ourselves adorable.

We think we're funny. We think we're cute. We think we're smart.

We think we need pig and hamburger. We have pig and hamburger. This makes

you want you some us but there is not enough us to go around

so you're going to have to settle for this pig and this hamburger. And when you're done

with this pig and this hamburger we also have this other pig and this other hamburger to offer,

it's a two-in-one electronic self-having pig-hamburger that whisks you to the airport

on electric skates in a kind of super awesome but also scary Elon-Gated shuttle service of the future,

where we live. Unless we don't, that is, unless we don't live in a future

at all, only in a past of invented desires and needs

and brutal slaughtering of every other animal that dares to live

in our world and looks halfway edible. We might die of having this world, unless we don't.

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#Italy View of a mural depicting US President Donald TrumpRussian President Vladimir Putin, and Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in Rome Photo Tiziana Fabi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 June 2018

#Nicaragua At school-turned-command post, Nicaraguan students defy Ortega's 'law of the jungle' Photo @intiocon #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 June 2018

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#Pakistan Pakistani children sit under the flags of participating countries in the upcoming FIFA 2018 World Cup, Argentina and Brazil in Karachi Photo@RizwanTABASSUM #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 June 2018

#Afghanistan An Afghan youth cools off as he takes a shower next to a hand pump along the roadside in Kabul Photo @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 June 2018

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Ole smoky eye goes down bobble-college road

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Oh, fuck you, Sarah Sanders and Jeff Sessions, for bringing your bullshit version of Christianity into this. How is it "biblical" to tear breastfeeding babies from their mothers? This administration is full of morally bankrupt ghouls. #ThursdayThoughts: image via Holly Figueroa O''Reilly BWCS @AynRandPaulRyan, 12:44 PM - 14 June 2018

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"Come on Sarah, you're a parent. Don't you have any empathy for what these people are going through?" CNN political analyst Brian Karem presses White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on family separations at the…

What Is Up Ahead Retweeted CNN International
What Is Up Ahead added,
"Don't have any empathy?" the reporter asked. "Next question," said the Christian. #SarahSanders
image via What Is Up Ahead @Whatisupahead, 14 June 2018

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CNN's Jim Acosta asks about family separations at the border: "Why is the government doing this?" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders: "Because...

Rev. Cornell Wm. Brooks, Esq. Retweeted CNN

Rev. Cornell Wm. Brooks, Esq. added,

#SarahSanders on an immigration policy allowing babies to be snatched from the breasts of migrant moms: “I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is actually repeated ... throughout the Bible,” Ma’am, that’s the #ICE rulebook, that ain’t the Bible
tweet via Cornell Wm. Brooks, Esq., 14 June 2018

"How do you square your Christianity with the realization that you are the most visible and vocal surrogate for a man who is by nearly every measurement—fully devoid of Christlikeness?" #ThursdayThoughts #SarahSanders: tweet via John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz, 14 June 2018

“As a professed Christian woman, how do you make peace with the reality that you regularly mount the largest bully pulpit in the nation—and you lie for a living on behalf of a serial predator” #SarahSanders: tweet via John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz, 14 June 2018

Citizens Fed Up @CitizensFedUp
Sarah asking about road kill...

Tomme1 Retweeted Citizens Fed Up

Tomme1 added,

Today Sarah Sanders made it onto my top 10 worst people in America list

tweet via Tomme1 @Tomme1, 14 June 2018

It's ok to enforce child slavery because of the Bible. #ThingsNeverSaidInIndianaJones #SarahSanders: image via CK @charley_ck14, 14 June 2018

There used to be a law that didn't allow you to vote. Another law said you could own slaves. Were those also Biblical? Laws are created by man. If they're wrong they must change. Don't blame God for ripping families apart. That's all Trump. #SarahSanders: image via CK @charley_ck14, 14 June 2018

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"Don't you have any empathy?" reporter implores Press Sec. Sanders amid repeated questioning about administration's policy of separating children from parents at the U.S. border.…

Rev Richard Hurtz Retweeted ABC News
Rev Richard Hurtz added,

This entire administration is a pack of lying, thieving wolves with no moral compass or compassion. In the end, they all deserve what they get... #ImpeachTrumpNow #lies #ImmigrantChildren #SarahSanders
image via Rev Richard Hurtz @thereverend, 14 June 2018

Teflon of the week. (Via @abcnews.): image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 14 June 2018

A mother is searched and her 2-year-old daughter bursts into tears as Border Patrol agents enforce the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy near the U.S., Mexico border. Photo: @jbmoorephoto: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 14 June 2018

A Honduran asylum seeker, 2, and her mother are taken into custody near the US-Mexico border. The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy for undocumented immigrants calls for the separation of parents and children. #undocumented #immigration #gettyimagesnews: image via John Moore @jbmoorephoto, 13 June 2018

US Border Patrol agents take a Honduran boy and his father into custody in south Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Justice Department’s “zero tolerance” #immigration policy separates children from parents during asylum process. #immigration #gettyimagesnews: image via John Moore @jbmoorephoto, 14 June 2018

A US Border Patrol spotlight illuminates a fearful Honduran mother and son, after they crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico and became lost in the woods. They were taken into custody. Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy splits families during asylum process. #immigration #gettyimagesnews: image via John Moore @jbmoorephoto, 13 June 2018

Central American immigrants near the US-Mexico border this week. US AG Sessions announced domestic and gang violence will no longer be grounds for asylum seekers to gain entry to the United States. #undocumented #immigration #gettyimagesnews

epa editor's choice 13 June 2018: HaitiFire #Fire #MarketFIre #Haiti #epaphotos Photo epa-efe / Jean-Marc Herve Abelard: image via epaphotos @epaphotos, 13 June 2018: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 13 June 2018

3 comments:

tpw15 June 2018 at 06:21
"Need"---that's a powerful & stunning poem, as is the whole post.
TC15 June 2018 at 18:05
Thanks Terry. You know how it is any more. You don't want to feel caught up in the history you're somehow at whatever distance living through... because you almost aren't... and then you do.

By the way, not to be argumentative, but just straight across, my heavens, has no one yet told that scary Huckleberry Goon Witch we are meant to have this little asterisk thingy called separation of church and state? A picky detail perhaps not that commonly noted within the august and hallowed hermeneutic confines of Ouachita Baptist, where short sentences are said to be so wonderfully understood, but still, jes sayin, y'all.

It's all jes so dayum bibble-ical, here in our good gray bleeding golden rush hour, in these End Days, when now that Lil Kim has been securely offloaded to happy cryogenic storage in Vegas the only thing we have to fear is as FDR radiosplained in so many words to all our listening families including dogs back in the day, the second term of Vonky.
TC15 June 2018 at 18:07
(i.e. as foretold in the Bobble, natch)

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Need | Ole smoky eye goes down bobble college road (bringin' it back home to ouachita)

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