pith…

He was raised to know, love, and work the earth.
Best dirt in the world.
Layer over layer of thick, much death.
Darkest black on top.

At the end of the horizon is more horizon. The palpable absence of no end. How could one not pursue this?

His self-esteem is a null set.
Momentary value comes from circumstances & his ability to be with, in, &, above all, OF them.
Begin again.

“There” – http://tinyurl.com/lphhby
pantoum: http://tinyurl.com/nzuxnu

SUPERBOWL XLIII, THE EPITOME OF THE ELECTRIFIED AMERICAN ARENA & THE DEBAUCHED WORLD OF SPORTS TODAY?WHAT ARE MILLION DOLLAR ADS GOOD FOR WHEN NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY??WELCOME TO THE GENERATION OF THE UNEMPLOYED & IN DEBT.

Yes, once again Super Sunday has rolled through and left a path of shameless overpriced advertising and a glittering display of the overzealous and exploded state of the National Football League. As was expected, but not really welcomed in many hopeful circles, the Steelers managed to stomp down the Cardinals with a powerful ground game and a few key field goals. The Steelers? defense is what really won the battle for them as expected, managing to trump old man Warner when the deal really went down even though Roethlisberger?s stats were as comparably low as the numbers that trickle out of Wall Street lately. So now Pittsburgh has something to boast about with the most Superbowl trophies ever, which could possibly be the greatest claim to fame that the sliding industrial hub on the forgotten side of Pennsylvania holds. Who cares though, the big game and the season are over now, and there are bigger and more pressing things that need to be addressed these days.

Regressing into the omnipresent recession and the vertical battle that Obama has on his hands to pull America out of the murky trench that the last eight years have plunged us into, let?s forget the Superbowl already and put down the fucking remote. It appears that a good chunk of the general public at least watches the news once and a while and possibly even picks up a newspaper judging by the downward plunge of the economy and the sense of uneasy fear that is spreading like Black Death throughout them. There are damn good reasons that even the most densely ignorant and aloof people are counting their piggybanks and cutting back on trips to the drive-thru and Wal-Mart. Apparently the government can?t even print money nearly as fast as they spend it and the dollar is worth less than toilet paper in some countries, everybody, including your bank is sliding further into a bottomless pit of debt and the labor force across the board is being slashed and outsourced.

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Now obviously I?m nowhere close to an economic expert, or even an avid amateur when it comes to Wall Street and numbers in general, but I can read and am immersed enough as a consumer and bartender/manager to see that money doesn?t stretch far these days. Constant banter about Stimulus plans that will send jolts of life and prosperity into the financial state of the nation sound more like deeper debt to China and a way to fool the stupid into thinking that everything is going to be all right. Our money is getting harder to earn every single day and seems to fly out of our hands and bank accounts faster than it would take to burn it all. Hold onto your billfolds folks, Stimulation is temporary bliss in a cold hard reality and the tides haven?t turned in the right direction yet. The ship is still sinking, learn to swim with the sharks or drown.?

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John Dick

Beginning of February 2009