Ahmadinejad Ate Their Votes!

Alteration of a Poster for a Festival I discovered, right in Burlington, Vermont, last fall. It is called the South End Art Hop http://www.seaba.com/2009-Art-Hop and is a mixture of Art and Music. It is a great way to explore all the nooks and crannies of Burlington's South End, a former manufacturing district, while enjoying wonderful art, and local music

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Thought I would share some more poetry, by some local poets I enjoy! This one is by Ellen Bass, who is a wonderful poet, and has also done so much important work to aid survivors of abuse. She leads workshops called "Writing for Our Lives" for survivors of child sexual abuse. http://www.ellenbass.com

"God's Grief"

Great parent
who must have started out
with such high hopes.
What magnitude of suffering,
the immensity of guilt,
the staggering despair.
A mind the size of the sun,
burning with longing,
a heart huge as a gray whale
breaching, streaming
seawater against the pale sky.
Man god or beast god,
god that breathes in every pleated leaf,
throat sac of frog, pinfeather and shaft--
god of plutonium and penicillin, drunk
sleeping on the subway grate,
god of Joan of Arc, god of Crazy Horse,
Lady Day, bringing us to our knees,
god of Houdini with hands
like a river, of Einstein, regret
running thick in his veins,
god of Stalin, god of Somoza,
god of the long march,
the Trail of Tears,
the trains,
god of Allende and god of Tookie,
the strawberry picker, fire in his back,
god of midnight, god of winter,
god of rouged children sold
with a week's lodging
and airfare to Thailand,
god in trouble, god at the end of his rope--
sleepless, helpless--
desperate god, frantic god, whale heart
lost in the shallows, beached
on the sand, parched, blistered, crushed
by gravity's massive weight.

from: http://www.ellenbass.com

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