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19.12.02
We used to read this every year attempting to enhance Civic Engagement in June when the air swam with horse flies and we were swallowed by green grass and birch trees, eventually abandoning our idealistic notions based on Tolsloy in order to prepare to act as colonists and slave drivers:
Listen!
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Listen,
if stars are lit
it means there is someone who needs it.
It means that someone wants them to be,
that someone deems those specks of spit
magnificent.
And overwrought,
in the swirls of afternoon dust,
he bursts in on God,
afraid he might be already late.
In tears,
he kisses God's sinewy hand
and begs him to guarantee
that there will definitely be a star.
He swears
he won't be able to stand
that starless ordeal.
Later,
He wanders around, worried,
but outwardly calm.
And to everyone else, he says:
'Now,
it's all right.
You are no longer afraid,
are you?'
Listen,
if stars are lit,
it means there is someone who needs it.
It means it is essential
that every evening
at least one star should ascend
over the crest of the building.
1914 (translator unknown but likely dead)
4:29 PM
Quote Du Jour
"I think when you speak about liars, the big liars in this world are the statesmen in the United States of America. There's a long history of lying, you see. And that's why in one of the polls when Mr. Clinton was in power, the result of the poll was that we do not trust him — the American people did not trust their president. But if you ask the Iraqi people, they will say that we trust Saddam Hussein." Tariq Aziz on FOX News Sunday, Dec. 15, 2002
12:54 PM
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