Déja Vu by Bonny Finberg | corrupt press

Déja Vu by Bonny Finberg | corrupt press:

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New chapbook, DéJa Vu, from Corrupt Press. Can be purchased through PayPal (see above).
Book launch at Poets Live Tues, Sept 20, 2011
http://poets-live.com/content/september-20th-peter-hughes-pearl-pirie-and-bonny-finberg

New story in EVERGREEN REVIEW #127

My Late Discovery of Claude Cahun: Sensitive Skin Magazine

New Issue of Sensitive Skin Magazine Just Out

New story in Sensitive Skin Magzine:"Botanical Man" along with other great work by Carl Watson, Max Blagg, Patricia Eakins, Elliot Sharp and many others.

Now blogging on Sensitive Skin Magazine Blog

As staff writer I'll now be posting most of my blogs on
the Sensitive Skin Magazine Blog.
And feel free to leave comments. We love your feedback.
Bonny

Review of Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at Cité de la Musique/Brooklyn Rail

BECAUSE LA NUIT: PATTI SMITH, "UNPLUGGED DREAMS' AT CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE

Short video on Ivy Writers Paris

The Ivy Writers series is a bi-lingual poetry series in Paris organized by Jennifer K. Dick and Michelle Noteboom. Each reading features an anglophone and a french poet. Jen and Michelle are interviewed as well as local writers including yours truly. Video by Erin Stranyak.

                                             

I almost prayed

       

Two rows of nuns 

took me in their arms, 

raised me to the dome, 
forgave the golden altar, 

the obscene bouquets of white. 

I bowed my head 

for birds and fish.

I tried to pray 

our ways

the way to nothing but

a soup of our own shit

I tried but don't believe.

I walked out onto high ground, 
grey sky, ever changing light, 

dusk infolding

like the wings of sleeping bats, 

trying to forget the stain.

(c) Bonny Finberg

May   10, 2010

Paris

                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                Photos (c)Bonny Finberg

Declaration of Independence

[Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776]

(My note: Some on the Christian Right are fond of noting how many times "God" is mentioned in this document  in order to justify their belief that religion and its teachings belong in government institutions such as schools. However, it's important to note how "God" is defined here:

"...to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them.." Notice the little apostrophe? That tiny detail implies that the drafters and signers of this document believed that

 "God" is from "nature," not that God made nature.)

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The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levey war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

TITANIC

LAHD, I CANTAYKETNOMWAH! (Music by Papa San "Maddy Maddy Cry")

The Bush Era tax cuts have been extended. Starting with Virginia, Obama's healthcare initiative is being dismantled through the state judiciaries. The Federal Reserve is a loose cannon, playing with the economy as if it were its private hedge fund. China has a stranglehold on Tibet and much of the Chinese population seems to be buying the rhetoric. It seems that even as a small percentage of people take to the streets, even those who attack figureheads do so without budging the iron fisted hold the sociopathic .0001% has on our  existence. We live and die by their decisions and at best all we do to stop them is a sigh in the wilderness. We are appeased with permission to ask the questions, while presenting the facts has become a criminal act. Lord, I can't take it no more.

LAHD, I CANTAYKETNOMWAH!

LEAVING FEAR BEHIND

Photograph (c) Bonny Finberg

Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a heroic film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games. With the global spotlight on China as it rose to host the XXIX Olympics, Tibetans spoke of their plight and their heartfelt grievances against Chinese rule. Many of them were willing to sacrifice their lives, insisting their faces be shown in order to get this message to the Dalai Lama and all the world. The footage was smuggled out of Tibet under extraordinary circumstances. The filmmakers were detained soon after sending their tapes out, and remain in detention today.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8048230761996582635#

View my short film "I AM THE POISON" as part of the SEEKING KALI project.

http://seekingkali.blogspot.com/search/label/Bonnie%20Finberg

All the Rest Divine

(c) Bonny Finberg

If I Were a Hacker Pop Ups

You dream and the outside comes in,
so inseparable you forget
you can turn it off.

This is a Free Fly Zone.

Maximize.

You never know how long it will work.

Maybe you can stay longer.

Your phone is ringing.

Tomorrow you will have a dream about eyes. 

When you wake up you will remember something about water. 

Then you will plug in and see me. 

What is it you're looking at? 

(c) Bonny Finberg

SACRED HEART

Poor gorillas, poor,

and even the hated and miraculous,

whose tongues have children

whose feet water their plants,

and even the hated

vanished in the ground,

a song for disaster,

and all we do

recorded in the blood of roots,

and people who this is a song of love for,

a song of cruelty,

a song for those who come after

who believe that life conquers disaster,

and all we do recorded in the blood.

(c) Bonny Finberg

COHABITATION

(c) Bonny Finberg

ALVIN GREENE -- THE CHIPMUNK CANDIDATE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnTYPZOmK0