The Justice Dept on Netroots Radio Presents: "By The Wet Bond Of Blood"

"... By friendship blossoming from mud, By Death: we faced him, and we found Beauty in Death... " - Robert Graves "Two Fusiliers"

I'm Spc Agent DJ Justice, Radio Host and Managing Partner for Netroots Radio and I'm manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your hop.

The playlist for 27 Feb 22 8pm to 9pm Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres

"By The Wet Bond Of Blood"

1 - Fausto Papetti - Femmes

2 - Cake - War Pigs

3 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through The Jungle

4 - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

5 - Frazey Ford - Lovers In a Dangerous Time

6 - The Be Good Tanyas - Ship Out on the Sea

7 - Pete Seeger - From Way Up Here

Station Break

8 - Savage Republic - Tabula Rasa

9 - Dany Bright - Suzette

10 - The Decemberists - After The Bombs

11 - Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

12 - Tom Waits - A Soldier’s Things

13 - Cristina Ortiz and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 in F Opus 102: II Andante

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12-String Ovation Balladeer, Astoria, Oregon - copyright Justice Putnam

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And have we done with War at last?

Well, we've been lucky devils both,

And there's no need of pledge or oath

To bind our lovely friendship fast,

By firmer stuff

Close bound enough.

By wire and wood and stake we're bound,

By Fricourt and by Festubert,

By whipping rain, by the sun's glare,

By all the misery and loud sound,

By a Spring day,

By Picard clay.

Show me the two so closely bound

As we, by the wet bond of blood,

By friendship blossoming from mud,

By Death: we faced him, and we found

Beauty in Death,

In dead men, breath.

- Robert Graves

“Two Fusiliers”

Sunlight and Water Pitcher, Muir Beach, California / copyright Justice Putnam

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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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“Do you smell that?” she asked, as we drove through Reims, past the headquarters of the National Front, on our way to La Tranche sur Mer.

“I don’t know,” I said flatly, “what is it?”

“It smells like… ” she sniffed in a haughty, Parisian disdain, “it smells like, fascism.”

I knew then I was in love with her. I knew it truly.

– Justice Putnam

“My Little French Honeymoon”

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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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Give me a church  

made entirely of salt.

Let the walls hiss  

Israel “Izzy Maq Styles” Putnam 2 Oct 1977 — 30 Dec 2018

and smoke when

I return to shore.

I ask for the grace

of a new freckle

on my cheek, the lift

of blue and my mother’s

soapy skin to greet me.

Hide me in a room

with no windows.

Never let me see

the dolphins leaping

into commas

for this water-prayer

rising like a host

of sky lanterns into

the inky evening.

Let them hang

in the sky until

they vanish at the edge

of the constellations —

the heroes and animals

too busy and bright to notice.

— Aimee Nezhukumatathil 

“Sea Church”

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Bridge at Astoria From The Column, Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam