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The playlist for Monday 11 November 9pm to Midnight Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ "Good Soldiers Carried Their Hardtack Over Their Hearts" ~~
1 - Gil Scott-Heron -- "Jose Campos Torres"
2 - Midnight Oil -- "Beds Are Burning"
3 - Siouxsie and The Banshees -- "Cities In Dust"
4 - Wall of Voodoo -- "Factory"
5 - Style Council -- "With Everything to Lose"
6 - Ghostland Observatory -- "Stranger Lover"
7 - Chumbawamba -- "Jacobs Ladder"
Station Break
8 - Cat Power -- "The Moon"
9 - Kate Bush -- "Lily"
10 - Band of Susans -- "The Last Temptation of Susan"
11 - Igor Stravinsky -- "Elegy for Solo Viola"
12 - Nina Simone -- "Wild is the Wind"
13 - Philip Glass -- "Kyokos House"
14 - The Cranberries -- "Linger"
Station Break
15 - Los Straitjackets -- "University Boulevard"
16 - Laika and The Cosmonauts -- "Salt Mine Twist"
17 - The Mermen -- "Sponge Cookie"
18 - Daikaiju -- "Farewell To Monster Island"
19 - The Calm Blue Sea -- "We Will Never Be As Young As We Are Tonight"
20 - Seabear -- "In Winters Eyes"
21 - Yatu -- "La Luna"
Station Break
22 - Stereolab -- "Cosmic Country Noir"
23 - Beth Orton -- "She Cries Your Name"
24 - Josh Roseman Unit -- "Long Day Short Night"
25 - Horace Silver -- "Song For My Father"
26 - Hank Crawford -- "Whispering Grass"
Station Break
27 - Poncho Sanchez -- "Besame Mama"
28 - Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros -- "Mondo Bongo"
29 - Tin Hat Trio -- "Fear of the South"
30 - Milladoiro -- "Alala das Marianas"
31 - Souljazz Orchestra -- "Kapital"
Station Break
32 - Vangelis -- "Memories of Green"
33 - Boards of Canada -- "Music is Math"
34 - Zero 7 -- "Give It Away"
35 - Radiohead - "Reckoner"
36 - Bjork -- "The Hunter"
37 - God Is an Astronaut -- "Fall from the Stars"
38 - Hannah Georgas -- "Ode To Mom"
Who luvs ya, baby?
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(12-String Ovation Balladeer Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Baking two parts flour to one part water
could stop a bullet. So good soldiers
carried their hardtack over their hearts.
Break it down with a rifle butt, flood it,
fry it in pig fat to make hellfire stew.
Gnaw it raw and praise the juice.
Does wheat prepare for this as it grows,
seeking the light in a half-thawed field?
Do stalks know their strength is merely
in their number? What is ground down
we name flour in promise that it will be
made useful. Otherwise, it’s just dust.
Sheet iron crackers.
Teeth-dullers.
Would you call it starving, if a man dies
with hardtack still tucked in his pocket?
Can you call it food, if the bullet comes only
at the moment he gives in and swallows?
-- Sandra Beasley
"Flour Is Firm"
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Voices and Soul appears on Black Kos Tuesday's Chile; poetry chosen and critiqued by Black Kos Poetry Editor Justice Putnam.
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(Cut Stones and Arch St Ceneri, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. -- JP
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(Man, Girl and Broken Window Klamath Falls, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Can you help folks in need heat their homes and cook their food on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations.
Navajo has an important diary posted with all the particulars. Even a small amount can work towards building the minimum.
Could you please help?)
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So that explains it... !
Sunlight and Water Pitcher Muir Beach / copyright Justice Putnam
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... Or does it?
(Holy Bible and 3 in 1 Oil Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Rail Road Crossing, Sonoma California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises."
-- Horace
"Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand."
-- Charles Kingsley
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A Windy Day In Normandy
Your floral-print dress
A breeze across fields
Of Sunflower and Lavender
You told me the story
Of the tragedy of
Your family
Your grandfather on
His mailman bicycle
The delivery of
Resistance correspondence
The fear of discovery
(The inevitable retaliation
Against the village
An Uncle hung
In the Square
A few weeks short
Of the liberation)
I watched your tears
As you prayed near
The soldier multitude of
White crosses and
The occasional
Star of David
Here and there even
An alabaster Crescent Moon
You wept for them all
As the tournesol
Faced West
Your dress clung in folds
And your red hair
Framed the History
Of your familial grief
(Saint Ceneri, France, 1994)
© 2005 Justice Putnam
and Mechanisches Strophe-Verlagswesen
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Rest in Peace Aaron Swartz
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(Morning Fog And Surf, Muir Beach, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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