tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1341573642329667591..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: We All Goin' BleedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19112275292981207152010-07-25T08:46:16.307-07:002010-07-25T08:46:16.307-07:00Elmo,
Thanks for popping back in, brother.
Kill ...Elmo,<br /><br />Thanks for popping back in, brother.<br /><br />Kill and overkill, human error all round, when guns are on the scene, nothing good is going down.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18093829610442804532010-07-25T05:49:52.088-07:002010-07-25T05:49:52.088-07:00I just hit the wrong button, it
is I Elmo St. Rose...I just hit the wrong button, it<br />is I Elmo St. Rose who made that<br />comment about facing someone who<br />is crazed.<br /><br />I've been there in the Emergency Room<br />on the side of caring<br />for those in one type of pain or<br />another and those who are crazed<br />intoxicated, violent etc...<br /><br />It is presumed by the press, and<br />juries, and poets that the world<br />in these instances is more perfect<br />than it is. It is also presumed<br />that training is perfect that <br />mistakes won't happen, that fear<br />and weaknesses within the persons<br />charged with publicly safety won't<br />take hold of the moment inappropriately.<br /><br />It is presumed in many circumstances that I the observer<br />had the moral and physical constitution to succeed appropriately in these moments.<br /><br />My point is that it is harder than<br />it looks on TV or U-tube, ie when<br />you're actually in the middle of it<br />which the poets are generally not,<br />facing a physical rage.<br /><br />Sincerely yours,<br /><br />ElmoElmo St. Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70526958148649606612010-07-25T05:07:19.583-07:002010-07-25T05:07:19.583-07:00Thanks, Don, for restoring the sane perspective.
...Thanks, Don, for restoring the sane perspective.<br /><br />We needed that.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34464955951495448922010-07-25T05:03:20.909-07:002010-07-25T05:03:20.909-07:00First, thanks for posting the anonymous comment an...First, thanks for posting the anonymous comment and for your response.<br /><br />I look back at the original post and can only ask:<br /><br />Which crazed one?<br /><br />We are surrounded by suffering. We choose how we response, personally and societally. To choose to perpetuate the cycle will do just that.<br /><br />The push, the pull. The struggle.<br /><br />You, your work, and this blog are cherished. Here's to the new day. May it be a better one.<br /><br />Bless the crazed, on all sides.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89699726488881607192010-07-25T01:44:01.533-07:002010-07-25T01:44:01.533-07:00Two things. First, there is a reason why many blog...Two things. First, there is a reason why many blogs do not allow Anonymous comments. What someone has not the courage to say in their own name, they should not be saying. I've always stretched tolerance to its reasonable limits of leniency on this point. But this comment makes me think I've been a fool. <br /><br />Second, if the implication of the comment is that, upon encountering someone one regards as crazed, one should kill that person, a novel form of social justice is being proposed, which would make the Old West look like a sewing circle in comparison.<br /> <br />I have seen far more of the crazed than I would wish to have seen. This is a crazed city in a crazed society. I live in it, unwillingly. I am afraid. <br /><br />The point of this post was not to justify craziness any more than to justify killing. One would like to believe there is a middle way between craziness and killing.<br /><br />I suppose that qualifies me as one of those sissy Liberals fashioned by the Creator as pincushions for dyspeptic lunatic fringe blog comments from the Bible belt.<br /><br />But hey, as it says in Isaiah, Watchman, What of the Night?<br /> <br />A bad night in thin times has just been made that extra little bit more unpleasant by this comment. Who needs crazed when I have my blog audience.<br /><br />Jeez, I'd just like to be alive in the morning.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36077646552535541522010-07-24T23:37:58.298-07:002010-07-24T23:37:58.298-07:00when was the last time
you faced one of the crazed...when was the last time<br />you faced one of the crazed?<br /><br />changes your perspectiveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34914276094390859612010-07-10T18:31:02.945-07:002010-07-10T18:31:02.945-07:00Don,
Thanks for getting this. Yes, words do fail ...Don,<br /><br />Thanks for getting this. Yes, words do fail us. Harrowing times.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84364820234391221932010-07-10T11:42:11.678-07:002010-07-10T11:42:11.678-07:00This rips the heart out ... and enflames the mind....This rips the heart out ... and enflames the mind.<br /><br />"He claims that he mistook the gun for his taser as he aimed it at a struggling Oscar Grant and fired."<br /><br />"Not all human conduct is directed by a desire for gain, say Experience and Common Sense" ...<br /><br />Instantly, I'm back in Newark in the 60's. <br /><br />Sometimes, it seems, there are no words.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5887596551921785842010-07-09T11:35:56.997-07:002010-07-09T11:35:56.997-07:00Otto,
Had you in mind while doing this. For you, ...Otto,<br /><br />Had you in mind while doing this. For you, here's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo6BYGlfuCs&feature=related" rel="nofollow">J-Park: Little OG</a>.<br /><br /><br />John,<br /><br />It gets stranger. The Person of Some Wisdom is not even a Man.<br /><br /><br />And for the Exercise Class... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bUSo1p66a0" rel="nofollow">the street, last night</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11311220959739180612010-07-09T11:28:00.961-07:002010-07-09T11:28:00.961-07:00Nice, Tom.
The Men Of Wisdom always know we shou...Nice, Tom. <br /><br />The Men Of Wisdom always know we should just sit down and shut up.John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13951965027096416672010-07-09T11:25:27.168-07:002010-07-09T11:25:27.168-07:00This twists and turns and does it again in my head...This twists and turns and does it again in my head, like a mobius strip. I like, I like.~otto~http://www.ottomattiq.comnoreply@blogger.com