Inherit the Wind

January 9, 2016 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | Drama Film, LIFE, PETER'S WRITING, Ulalume |

Proverbs, 11:29 – “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.” ——- I watched this Stanley Kramer bag-of-wind With that pair of plump boiled hams, Tracy and March, In a hot and dusty courtroom, having a fine old time Debating whether a schoolteacher had sinned. Kids bit into the apple when their brains began to parch So he taught them evolution was no crime. Tracy, playing Darrow, fought the case upon the law, In other words he posed as legislator. But the facts were dead against him, so,…

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“Marriage Equality”

November 28, 2015 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | LIFE, PETER'S WRITING, POLITICS |

The Marriage Settlement by William Hogarth

Rather, it appears to me As special pleading, don’t you see, Equality is not the name For making difference all the same And social change, go carefully About your task, respectfully; If to shadow-lands dissent Is forced, we’ll find new ways to vent And those could sting. For social concord, here’s a thing That could restore freedoms of old – Instead of choosing to be told What’s right, equal, or ‘appropriate’; Perhaps we should de-legislate And banish State from communal bed, Let couples choose to state instead What they are or wish to be – Let clerics moot matrimony.          

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Islam-o-nut

November 22, 2015 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | PETER'S WRITING, POLITICS, Ulalume |

By Hubert van Ravesteyn (1671)

It looks like any other nut. The outer shell is hard And seemingly impervious, The flesh within is poisoned. Despite the strength of its integument This is prone to burst-forth After fermentation. It will lay in a shrinking room, Touching all within. So this is a nut one must not crack In the event its toxic traces Spill over the table.  

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Pierrot at the Show

November 14, 2015 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | ART, PETER'S WRITING |

(By August Macke)

[In the fashion of online construction, transient and elusive as painting fresco – see The Faerie Queen of Estonia – we offer our arts wrap ups in the Great Poet‘s invention, terza rima] Dear Calliope, I am not all that keen To finish up this long account And serve as a meal not fit for a queen. So from my high horse I dismount And warily survey the scene, An open mind is paramount, And hopefully, a brain washed clean (Not confused with an empty mind) To precisely process the heard and seen — Within the Kingdom of the Blind,…

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Canticle of the Sun

November 1, 2015 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | PETER'S WRITING |

First Pope by Rubens

Sometimes only faith makes sense, The soul tires, sat on the fence, Balancing on the swaying timbers, Dug into the dying cinders. When the trope du jour is worn Out, when recall that we were born Comes, cast around a little more In this wicked world, start searching for A new design, another one To shade the screeching soulless sun. While on the sun, a modern trend Yet all too old, the welcome end Of time, shall serve as our device, To inculpate all human vice. So Hail Mary! Spread the wealth, Frack off! Cease digging coal by stealth, Lights out –…

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