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The playlist for Sunday 16 March 14 8pm to 9pm Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ "Where The Sky Seemed Lower Than The Rocks" ~~
1 - Brian O Donnell -- "The Fields of Athenry"
2 - The Sound -- "Winning"
3 - Woods -- "Death Rattles"
4 - Era -- "Gregorian"
5 - Russian Red -- "Just Like a Wall"
6 - The Chieftains -- "Women Of Ireland"
7 - Nox Arcana -- "Veni Veni Emannuel"
Station Break
8 - Mothers of Invention -- "Trouble Every Day"
9 - Sinead O'Connor -- "Empire"
10 - Flatfoot 56 -- "The Rich The Strong and The Poor"
11 - Loreena McKennitt -- "All Souls Night"
12 - Michael Brook and Richard Burton -- "Darker Room by Dylan Thomas"
13 - The Pogues -- "Dirty Old Town"
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(12-String Ovation Balladeer Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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I drove through the narrow Gods—
privet and cholesterol, or
Irish creamery butter as the waiter
called it, as it shaved another day
off my life. There was no salt
and antimony, just lumpy roads
through Meath and Leitrim.
The sky was a show of flashing
mirrors as day broke on Rosses.
Tide out and weed like cow pies
on the shore. The punt down and
the EEC on the horizon,
as I read in the guidebook about pilgrims
climbing St. Patrick’s barefoot
every summer.
Out of the fog a man in Wranglers and
spurred boots, clean-shaven, a cigarette
in hand, waved me down.
“Scrum faced house at the end of the bay.”
“Hop in,” I said. “You lookin’
for where John Wayne made The Quiet Man?”
“No.” “American?” “Yep.” “Don’t look it.
You Jewish too?” “No.”
“I-talian?” “No.”
The fog was lifting off the fern-scalded
mountains across the bay, and the sheep
marked red and blue looked like sweaters.
“Grace O’Malley hijacked British
ships up here, and the Choctaws
sent $500 during the famine. Not a fuckin’ penny from the U.S.”
We passed the rusted hulls
of fishing boats and the scaffolding
of floating mussel beds.
“The Downing Street Accord is lots of
shit; Adams’ a frog on an oil slick.
When Lord Haw Haw broadcast for the Nazis
from right here, do ya think he was
a traitor or a patriot? … to us, I mean?”
I couldn’t bring myself to tell him
I was on sabbatical and looking for
a place to write.
“They’ll turn the bog to Marks & Spencer anyway.”
“I’m looking for Knock-Na-Rae.”
“Maeve’s mountain? Two hours from
here in the other direction.”
I dropped him at the scrum house
half roofless and cracked,
where the sky seemed lower than the rocks
and the hills the color
of red sheep.
-- Peter Balakian
"Killary Harbor"
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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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(Farm Road and Running Fence, Olema, 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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I could
Remember
The days
When innocence
Was blowing
Like across
A Van Gogh
Meadow
Caressing the
Hillsides and woods
With a
Fragrant
Shimmering
Color.
Innocence
Rising
Above the
Vulgarity
In which the
Existence
Of nearly every
Individual
Is spent.
But I had become
Bound by guilt
And dubious
Of the truth.
I came to believe
That in a sense
Innocence
Was the same
As failing
Holding onto
Innocence
Meant becoming
Dog-lipped
And stranded
In the park
Alone.
I came to believe
That the measure
Of love
Was the amount
Of emotional
Hurt
I could survive.
Not quite
Like a crushed
Butterfly
Picked apart
By a colony of ants
But I had often
Cut my finger
From the beauty
Of a long-stemmed rose.
So I realized
In those final moments
What had actually
Happened
My life was
A series of patterns
A self created
Maze that offered
No escape
So overwhelming
In its
Awesome-ness
That I was
Incapacitated
By its weight
I had no
Resiliency
Left to survive
I punctured
Myself
With my own
Pursuit of
Beauty.
Again
And again
I had sought
Compassion
And heart-pure
Connection
Between the legs
Of Beauty
Only to make
Visible
My own
Impure
Weakness of heart.
I would
Give up.
I would
Let sadness
String itself
Between my fingers
And memory
Became
A fading
Melody.
(Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California 1978)
(from: Part 3 "And Memory Became A Fading Melody")
© 2006 by 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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