CARD 1
“Singularly Absent of Demagogues” from the eBook “Synaptic Syntactic“: INTERLUDE 1 /// but there wasn’t any error, / all the lies came together, / no one questioned them / all alerting others to the weather / singularly absent of demagogues / a spectacle was joined ever nightly / inside, the notes were compiling upon a desk /// Democracy, Rule of Law, Public Good Policy, Science and Facts /// “Bookstand”: Technology of such elegance and simplicity / It escapes all notice / Until you see it / And seeing, need /// [symbols]
From “Singularly Absent of Demagogues” (12/13/2015) and also “Bookstand” (12/17/2014). Synaptic Syntactic is available on other platforms than Amazon, see the plug at the bottom of the post.
CARD 2
“REMEMBER THESE THINGS”: The tangled flow of lives / In your workings, remember three things: // One, never look down on mushrooms / Two, do not insult your customers / Three, bring your lives to fruition // In your direct actions, remember these four: // The situation is not normal / The collected dreams of the people are at a place of power / Refrain from rudeness / Chant loudly, raucously, and bawdily // In your home, three again // Bring ever peace unto it / Stand on the threshold a moment before going through / Cook with consciousness /// from the eBook “Synaptic Syntactic”
From “Interlude and Remember These Things” (10/10/2015).
CARD 3
Excerpt of “AS YOU DISINTEGRATE” fr eBook “Synaptic Syntactic”: […] in the brief silence of time, delete; / in the brief silence of time, stir; / in the brief silence of time, do not declare, but fall; / the pages, the horror, the fallen / the fallen. / in it not as of Which but of Who, Not as if Other but of That, demonstrably deficient, but otherwise unwise and in time you all shall know, or perhaps shall know nothing, but as of which of the times did you know of your guilt, or did you ever? Were you ever of the uncaringness of children, or were you merely of a sniping mind? […]
From “AS YOU DISINTEGRATE […]you have been warned[…]” (8/8/2019, latest edit)
CARD 4
How to begin it? / We once were in a bit of a jam / We took what could be taken / Sleeping off the chaos of the dilemma, / We woke into a dream / Our followers were prepared with mace and henbane / Clamoring1 to reach the retorts2 and the window smashing, they broke a few things / Worthy vices had to be found / Twinkling eyes full of mischief showed us the way “Mace and Henbane” (abridged) from the eBook “Synaptic Syntactic” /// Democracy, Rule of Law, Common Good Policy, Science & Facts /// Thinking through the twists of artful elusions of what followed…
From “Mace and Henbane” (2/23/2015)
1 I meant the meaning of ‘clamber’ originally, not ‘clamor’, but clamor also works well.
2 Sense 3 of 4 “a vessel or chamber in which substances are distilled or decomposed by heat”
CARD 5
We all the small ones grew up & were changed / We all the small ones went to the store / We grew up & changed, we grew and changed, we transfigured and expanded /In our silence you could read longing / Many of the others disliked and spat upon our changes / We ignored it / We flattered ourselves of our uniqueness / But we triumphed at one thing / Any small thing that can be taken if, see disclaimer, is not a breath of air, is to be avoided / My dreams do not trouble me /// “We Flattered Ourselves of Our Uniqueness” (abridged)
From “We Flattered Ourselves of Our Uniqueness” (2/22/2015)
CARD 6
“Erupted”: These layers / of old wounds / pile up / and in a weak moment / erupt // A series of fires / A nod to the angels / A truckful of illusions / In silence we go on, changed // Untold stories / Ripple out across the water / upsetting the bobbing flotsam / in a left-handed kind of / Silence ::: “Cat”: sits and stares at the screen / jealously irritating / sitting on armrest ::: helium balloon / floats into the azure sky / high until it pops ::: Democracy, Rule of Law, Common Good Policy
From “Erupted” (12/15/2014) an “Cat” (1/8/2014) and a new haiku. “Cat” is not in the book if you wondered.
CARD 7
How to begin it? / We once were in a bit of a jam / We took what could be taken / The dirigible drank in the fumes of xenon / Sleeping on sheets of lead, the magistrate shook, and moaned: “hooooow is that nauh, mistuh sir?” / Our followers were prepared with mace and henbane / Clamoring to reach the retorts and the window smashing, they broke a few things / worthy vices had to be found / Twinkling eyes full of mischief showed us the way ::: “Mace and Henbane” (abridged) Democracy, Rule of Law, Common-Good Policy (& Science!)
A different cutting of the above listed “Mace and Henbane”, of course.
And yeah, I actually can fit that many words in a postcard, once I get my writing practiced up and have a script to work from:
The cards in this group include a repeating message of something like: (around the edge) “On the rule of law is the Meidas Touch Network on YouTube” and somewhere in the body or extra space: “Democracy, Rule of Law, Public Good Policy, Science & Facts”. This is the version I settled on after the awkward start. Recent unpublished postcards featured: “Good Read: ‘Being Logical: A Guide to Thinking‘ by DQ McInerney”.
There will be more about the details of this campaign later.
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