Saturday 28 April 2012

LIMERICKS TO KLAKOKUM


LIMERICKS TO K’LAKOKUM



There was an old poet of Brampton

Who loved it when words were stamped on.

     Each new shriek at his foot

     Into his poem he’d put

His pseudonym eagerly clamped on.





There is still a new Saint named Andrew

Whose words balance Libran true;

     Whenever thoughts clash

     His pen will soon dash

To rapidly correct their askew.





Copyright © 2003, Rabin Duff, used with permission



NOTE re: ‘Andrew’:  those familiar with the Kangaroo poets will remember that each of them took on the name of one of the twelve (later thirteen, after JDC/Mattias replaced BS/Judas Iscariot) disciples.  K’lakokum was Saint Andrew; Rabin was Saint James the Elder.



Friday 27 April 2012

for Syd: High Wordsmith


for Syd; High Wordsmith



were you ever there

or was it the poet’s flight

the poets’ far sight

with which wish where

in at to from of above

your mouth saw

the truth raw-

ly with dangling participles love-

ing-ly expressed quickening

gliding through desert waters

the birch bark the blotters

of your ink spots creating

amazing words u-sage u-jew

a song of words taught

kangaroo germans naught-

y paddling in a canoe

of half-sentences for

full thoughts a door

parting red seas anew.....



but you were never there

for other poets flight

your own far sight

above us who were where





Copyright © 1979, 2003, 2012 K’lakokum





CONTENTS OF HOARDINGS BOX OQAA:



FOR SALE:  [to arrange purchase, send email to: klakokum@gmail.com]

For other book lists, check directory on the right of this page.

Today’s book selections:

ITEM YA09...GODS OF EDEN Andrew Collins $20

ITEM ZP08...PYRAMID OF SECRETS Alan F. Alford 1st/1st signed $125

ITEM 0576...THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN THE NEW WORLD Mann $25

ITEM 0577...SIX MEN Alistair Cooke $7

ITEM 0579...THE LOST TOMB OF VIRACOCHA Cotterell $29

ITEM 0580...1759: THE BATTLE FOR CANADA LaPierre $15

ITEM 0581...DEEMED SUSPECT Eric Koch $20

ITEM 0583...MY LIFE: A SPIRITUAL QUEST Macleod $60

ITEM 0585...THE PIONEER YEARS Barry Broadfoot $12

ITEM 0586...THE SIRIUS MYSTERY Temple $12

ITEM 0587...THE RISE OF UNIVERSITIES Haskins $20

ITEM 0589...THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Doyle $20

ITEM 0590...HEALTH HEALING AND RELIGION Kinsley $17

ITEM 0591...LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING Adams $4

ITEM 0593...COMPLETE STORIES AND POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE $20

ITEM 0594...WE ARE NOT ALONE Walter Sullivan $17

ITEM 0596...GOD CREATION and TOOLS for LIFE Sylvia Browne $4

ITEM 0597...THE INNER WEST Jay Kinney $12

ITEM 0598...EXPLORING THE PSYCHIC WORLD Fred Archer $9

ITEM 0599...THE BOOK OF HONOR Ted Gup $9

ITEM 0600...ONE WOMAN’S ARCTIC Sheila Burnford $4

ITEM 0602...JOE PALMER: A NEW BRUNSWICK ENTREPRENEUR $45

ITEM 0603...VOICES OF SPIRIT Charles H. Hapgood $15

ITEM 0605...THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE Adams $4

ITEM 0606...THE MURDERERS AMONG US Joseph Wechsberg $65

ITEM 0607...JUSTICE DELAYED David Matas $20

ITEM 0609...CELEBRITY James Monaco $12

ITEM 0611...THE NAPOLEON OF CRIME MacIntyre $17

ITEM 0626...TUNKASHILA Gerald Hausman $9

ITEM 0628...CHANNELING Jon Klimo $7

ITEM 0630...UFOS PSI AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION Humphrey $20

ITEM 0631...REALIZE YOUR PSYCHIC POWER Abbe Gail $7

ITEM 0632...WITCHCRAFT Geddes & Grosset $12

ITEM 0633...A LIBERTY PRIMER Alan Burris $30

ITEM 0634...PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELIGION Erich Fromm $9

ITEM 0635...WICCA Vivianne Crowley $12

ITEM 0636...MURDER AT THE CONSPIRACY CONVENTION Krassner $20

ITEM 0637...AGELESS BODY TIMELESS MIND Deepak Chopra $6

ITEM 0638...HOW TO STUDY AN OLD CHURCH Needham $15

ITEM 0639...THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE CANADIAN NORTH Bone $6

ITEM 0640...SECRET AND SUPPRESSED Jim Keith $20

ITEM 0642...CONTACT AND CONFLICT Robin Fisher $9

ITEM 0643...THE BOOK OF MERLYN T.H. White $20

ITEM 0644...THE 9/11 COMMISSION OFFICIAL REPORT $9

ITEM 0645...MIRRORS OF THE SOUL Kahlil Gibran $9

ITEM 0646...GUNS GERMS AND STEEL Jared Diamond $13

ITEM 0647...COMBATTING CULT MIND CONTROL Hassan $17

ITEM 0648...THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS Lewis Spence $17

ITEM 0649...ATLANTIS: INSIGHTS FROM A LOST CIVILIZATION Shirley Andrews $7

ITEM 0650...HOWARD HUGHES: THE HIDDEN YEARS James Phelan $8

ITEM 0651...VOYAGE TO ATLANTIS James W. Mavor, Jr. $12

ITEM 0652...THE THREE BOXES OF LIFE Richard N. Boles $8

Thursday 26 April 2012

THE DUET


THE DUET



A WOMAN'S POEM

Before I lay me down to sleep,

I pray for that man who's not a creep:

He who is handsome, smart, and strong;

He who will love to listen long;

He who’ll think before he speaks;

He who'll call, not wait for weeks!

He who’s gainfully employed;

When I spend his cash, he’s not annoyed.

He pulls out my chair; he opens my door;

He’ll massage my back, begs to do more.

I pray for that man who’ll love me to end,

And always be my very best friend.



A MAN'S POEM

I pray for a deaf-mute gymnast,

A nymphomaniac with huge boobs

Who owns a bar on a golf course;

Loves to send me fishing and drinking.

Now this don’t scan nor rhyme

But fucked if I will give a crap.

The End





[This is by that prolific poet, Anonymous, saved from one of those time-wasting emails because it annoyed me, begging for correction.  I greatly improved it by providing two missing rhymes and I corrected the metre throughout, although I’m not satisfied with lines 8 and 11 of the woman’s yet, and not happy with the man’s at all.  What a typical mindless wretch he is!  But perhaps both of them are much too stereotypical; that is the intent of the humour.  Further improvements welcome.  Feel free to share.

--- K’lakokum]





CONTENTS OF HOARDINGS BOX OPAA:



FOR SALE:  [to arrange purchase, send email to: klakokum@gmail.com]

For other book lists, check directory on the right of this page.

Today’s book selections:

ITEM CD50…CRIME IN CANADIAN SOCIETY Silverman & Teevan $9

ISBN 040986725x; 1976; Category: Criminology

ITEM JK02… THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES Hulda Regehr Clark $20

Naturopath Hulda Clark's research into the disease process revealed that parasites or pollution cause illness, and in CURE FOR ALL DISEASES, she offers expansive advice on how the patient can take healing into his or her own hands, or minister to their loved ones in a cost-effective manner. Using an audio oscillator, termed the Synchrometer, built at home following instructions in the book, the reader learns to seek out, find through sound waves, selectively electrocute, and thus destroy the offenders, (except any shielded by the intestinal or abdominal lining). Once the parasites are eliminated, further support is given using specific herbs and nutritional treatment. If pollutants are at fault, their detoxification and avoidance are essential. Explicit directions and a no-nonsense approach to healing offer a clear way forward for the adventurous health consumer.

ISBN 1890035017; 1995 softcover; ex-library

[HK]ITEM LW87…THE COMMON THREAD John Sulston $9 

Sulston, a Nobel laureate and geneticist, is one of many scientists around the world working to map the human genome. THE COMMON THREAD recounts his story, with the help of science writer Ferry, and his personal battle against Craig Venter, head of the privately-funded genetics corporation Celera., who is also at work on genetic mapping.  ISBN 0593048016,  2002 softcover; condition: fair

ITEM LX61…THE FIRST FREEDOM Bryce W. Rucker $20

[DK]ITEM YB40…THE OCCULT SCIENCES IN ATLANTIS Lewis Spence $17

[DK]ITEM YB44…ATLANTIS DISCOVERED Lewis Spence $9

ITEM 0565...THE ASTROLOGER’S HANDBOOK Sakoian & Acker $9

[EE,]ITEM 0571…OGOPOGO: THE OKANAGAN MYSTERY Mary Moon $65

Electronic items:

Other items:

ITEM EM00...First Day Cover, Oct.25, 1990, NORVAL MORRISSEAU VIRGIN MARY CHRISTMAS POSTAGE STAMP $12

Offered for sale is the First Day Cover issued by Canada Post on October 25, 1990 when the 1990 edition of the annual Christmas postage issue first went on sale.  This cover presents 3 of the 4 stamps in the set, featuring the 39 cent Norval Morrisseau Canada Christmas stamp, Virgin Mary with Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist # 1294.

Canada Post Corporation's annual Christmas set features the works of four native Canadian artists. Each one has depicted the nativity or the origin of human life according to their particular cultural beliefs. Jackson Beardy's "Rebirth" (Cree) is seen on the 34¢ GREET MORE stamp. It is a rendering of the beginnings of life and its cycles of existence. On the 39¢ domestic rate, Norval Morrisseau (Ojibwe) "nativizes" a classic Christian image in his painting "Virgin Mary with Christ Child and St. John the Baptist." The green stone sculpture, "Mother and Child", created by a Cape Dorset Inuit artist (believed to be Lutka Qiatsuk), is featured on the 45¢ U.S. rate design. And the 78¢ international rate stamp uses Bill Reid's serigraph on paper, "Children of the Raven", portraying the first human beings entering the world according to Haida belief. Montreal graphic designer Clermont Malenfant put distinctive backgrounds of metallic colours, textile, blanket or tapestry patterns from each artist's culture together with the artwork and the appropriate translation of the Christmas wish "Peace on Earth".

ITEM 0658...(comic book) HELENA CATFIGHT #1, with certificate of authenticity signed by Steven Zyskowski, #81 of 700 $15

ITEM 0663...(lithographed post card)THE BEAVER by The Blue Pump $5

ITEM 0664...(brochure) FATHER AND SON by Floyd Kuptana $8

ITEM 0665...(postcard) CIRCUS HALL OF FAME winter quarters circa 1928 at Peru, Indiana (card produced 1996, Series #1, Card #1) $3

MANUSCRIPT NOTES OR RESEARCH:

SOUTH OF TUK ARCHIVES

0653...mis-use of religion as an excuse

0654...Anglican schism on gay rights

0655...seven million victims in Ukraine holocaust

0657...homosexuality and the Bible (clippings from The Sunday News)

[cMR]0661...text of speech by John P. Robarts April 23, 1976

[cMR]0662...Michael Best column commenting on 0661

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

0667..."The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.'" --Ayn Rand

PERSONAL/FAMILY STUFF:

0656...passport expired 22 March 1974

0660...registered mail sent Feb.3, 1965 notice of grant of citizenship

0666...my election brochure 1984 federal election

Wednesday 25 April 2012

KETTLE VALLEY RAILROAD


KETTLE VALLEY RAILROAD

(a 20-mile trek)



So subtle the slope up of man’s

taming his path through rock,

his pass small and temporary

as himself and his plans,

even Kyle thinks so as we walk

that old great road now airy

of train whistle, only a linger

of creosote smells, the great heave

and gasp of steam silenced,

the tomb tunnels putting a finger

to their lips, giving us no leave

to shout, our breath tensed

between the guard rails for tourists.

Some played to their death here,

their gathered flowers an unbelonging

memorial, Erik says, his fists

full of raspberries, while Kyle, near

every precipice, disdains wronging

his stomach with goodness, preferring

the pizza picnic we brought secretly

to supplement Aunt Ann’s liverwurst

on rye.  Erik is undemurring

after ten miles, his sweat wetly

staining, while Kyle will be first

at the twenty mile mark still

dancing, still asking me geometric

and engineering questions; every trestle

a new promise that, yes, he will

build bigger, bolder; so energetic

for man’s grandeur.  I must wrestle

for a rest, sharing the last

water with Erik who sees

God’s grandeur through my eyes,

the mounts and river are the cast

of a vast drama for man’s ease

to know what’s wise.



Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2012 K’lakokum



For photos of what we visited in 1995, and for history of the railway, go here:  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_Valley_Railway.   Many of the trestles were destroyed in the forest fire of 2003, featured on the cover of South of Tuk #100.  For S of T website, see   http://southoftuk.blogspot.ca











CONTENTS OF HOARDINGS BOX OOAA:



FOR SALE:  [to arrange purchase, send email to: klakokum@gmail.com]

For other book lists, check directory on the right of this page.

Today’s book selections:

ITEM AJ57...AMERICAN FASCISTS: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT & THE WAR ON AMERICA Chris Hedges $8

[AZ]ITEM AZ02…HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE J.K. Rowling $6

[AZ]ITEM AZ03…J.K. ROWLING: THE WIZARD BEHIND HARRY POTTER Marc Shapiro $15

[KE]ITEM BA16…SEXUAL HARASSMENT: HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SPEAK OUT June Larkin $15

Girls are harassed in high schools every day, and no one seems to be dealing with the problem.  In this book, Larkin interviews teen-age girls and reports on how sexual harassment is a part of daily high school routine, with complicity from administrators, educators, and officials.  As long as harassment remains a fact of school life, equal opportunity in education must remain unrealized, she contends.

ITEM IB07…THE APPEAL OF FASCISM Alastair Hamilton $20

CONDITION: dj is poor; book is good, one inscription.  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

ITEM UE09STICKS AND STONES Lewis Mumford AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE $15

Mumford investigates the evolution of architectural style in the USA and demonstrates the relationship between that evolution and other cultural trends.  He begins with the New England Village as a single architectural entity, then covers the meeting house, Jeffersonian neo-classicism, early industrialism, utilitarian crudity, Gothic revival, Crystal Palace, growth of cities, the skyscraper, regional planning.  He discusses McKim, Mead, Penn Station, the University of Virginia, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Richardson, the Brooklyn Bridge, Wright, Sullivan, and the Harkness Memorial.

This is a recent undated reprint of the 1955 2nd revised edition of the book; ISBN 048620202x; softcover; 113 pages; very good condition.

ITEM YC68…MEDIEVAL PEOPLE Eileen Power $9

ITEM YF89…THE FARMER FROM TEKOA [Amos] Herman Veldkamp $8

ITEM YJ55…THE SCRABBLE COMPANION Brandeth & Francis $17

ITEM ZQ11…THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS William S. McCartney $25

ITEM 0504…HEALING CODES FOR THE BIOLOGICAL APOCALYPSE Leonard Horowitz $35

[EC]ITEM 0507…A HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE Ben-Sasson $55

ITEM 0524…STORIES DONE Mikal Gilmore $8

ITEM 0537…THE EVOLUTION CONSPIRACY Matrisciana & Oakland $9

ITEM 0641...ADMIRAL SOUCHON AUF GROSSER FAHRT signed by the admiral and numbered, number 1 of 875; dedication inscription to Karl-Georg von Harten; 1st, 1st    $2,399

MANUSCRIPT NOTES OR RESEARCH:

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

0617...“Beautiful girls are meant to be adored. After all they did not take on this form for nothing. But it is also necessary that such a one is able to handle her outer beauty by having inner beauty as well. The inner beauty consists of qualities such as graciousness, gentleness, kindness in speech and action. That is when she truly shines. A virtuous woman is beyond rubies. A man’s heart can safely trust in her.”

 - Enoch Mind Reality

0618...From a Swedish government report a friend just sent me:

"Individuals with high productivity (high income) can choose to imitate those with lower productivity, ie. work less and generate the same observable income as low-productivity individuals, and thus obtain a higher benefit through lower tax rate and more leisure time."

0619... “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” --Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

0629... "Buried within you is an unlimited capacity for creation, what James Allen calls a waking angel that's anxious to plant seedlings to fulfill your dreams and your destiny."  Dr. Wayne Dyer

SAVED LINKS:

0620...The real story of thanksgiving


0621...Map of world religions


0622...Orgonite


0623...Blue Car Racer review


0624...Arctic Ocean leaking methane


0625...drugs and madness

Tuesday 24 April 2012

MAENTWROG #37


                            TO CHRIST OUR LORD

How looks heaven now stung with brilliance, missing

   no minted gilded golden spoked wheel of fire, moted

of million-fold pointed pierced light eyelets singing

   where Michael by all that starry press is voted

most spiritual, principal, pre-eminent; a first-song

   to lesser breaking indivisible ray-notes, all save-

ing nor sparing crescendo of tiny flames heaven-long;

   never the blazing praise concluding the galactic octave!



   Lucifer is zealous in jealousy, self-smitten by pride;

  by his own heart wounded, his darkness must hide ---

         his stars now all the sand of earth.



         From my own dark grain let me birth

   my fallen star into a little light of mine;

  let me so shine, o Lord, to reflect thine!





                                          Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum



CONTENTS OF HOARDINGS BOX ONAA:


FOR SALE:  [send email to: klakokum@gmail.com]

Today’s book selections:

ITEM AA27…WE WILL NOT HANG OUR HARPS ON THE WILLOWS Barbel Von Wartenberg-Potter $4

[AC]ITEM AC15...RIEL: A LIFE OF REVOLUTION Maggie Siggins $22

[AD]ITEM AD10...THE IMAGINARY INDIAN Daniel Francis $10

[AD]ITEM AD11...INDIAN GOVERNMENT: ITS MEANING IN PRACTICE Cassidy & Bish $15

[AH]ITEM AH09…MUSHROOMS AND FUNGI  by Moira Savonius SOLD

In South of Tuk #12, Kangaroo Poet Norm wrote an article about the sacred mushroom in the art of Norval Morrisseau.  In Issue #59, Kangaroo Poet JHM wrote an article about the experience of colour under hallucination, such hallucination made possible by LSD, peyote, and the sacred mushroom.  In Issue #135, Kangaroo Poet K’lakokum discussed the magic mushroom in Morrisseau’s Warrior Finds Soma [24x 34n, 1979, catalogue raisonne number muaa]

The amanita muscaria which is believed to be the sacred or magic mushroom is described on pages 32 to 34 of this book.  It is used by the shaman to enter The House of Invention.  From the 9th to 13th century in Europe, it was widely believed that what Eve ate was not an apple, but the sacred mushroom.  This may have started as a Catholic device to keep people away from a consciousness-raising substance.  The Aztecs [who used it in their spiritual rituals] called it nanacatyl.  This book has 104 colour illustrations depicting the entire world of mushrooms and fungi. 1973 hardcover ISBN 0706401913 published by Octopus Books Limited London W1, printed by Mandarin Publishers Ltd. Hong Kong

[AH,]ITEM AH60...THE MANITOUS: SPIRITUAL WORLD OF THE OJIBWAY Basil Johnston $29

Spiritual tales, tribal teachings, and native legends are evocatively interwoven through the time-honoured oral tradition of the Ojibway.   Manitous are mysteries and spirits – the essences – that infuse and safeguard plants and animals, including humans, in all aspects of life.  These tales about them are simple in narration but complex in spirit, rich with incident and detail.  Here are tricksters, tree spirits, wise grandmothers, and seductive maidens.  Here we meet fearsome Windigos, the half-human half Manitou creatures who represent both of their worlds to the other side.  Here we find The Prophecy of changes in the world to come.  Most of these stories have never previously been written down.

ISBN 0060171995; 1995 stated first edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in near-new condition.

[AH]ITEM AN34a…THE BOOK OF THE HOPI Frank Waters $10

ITEM CK40...HEALING SOUNDS: THE POWER OF HARMONICS Jonathan Goldman $42

ITEM CK41...PLANET X, COMETS & EARTH CHANGES James M. McCanney $85

ITEM CK43...ATOMIC SUICIDE? Walter & Lao Russell $85

[CM,]ITEM CM10...AMERICAN SLAVERY 1619-1877 Peter Kolchin $4

ITEM DA13…Earth Rising II THE BETRAYAL OF SCIENCE SOCIETY & SOUL Begich & Roderick $19

[DC,]ITEM DC66...THE ELECTRIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE Walter Russell $17

ITEM LJ80…CONSPIRACIES, COVER-UPS AND CRIMES: POLITICAL MANIPULATION AND MIND CONTROL IN AMERICA Jonathan Vankin $17

Discusses conspiracy theory as it applies to such cases as the Kennedy assassination, the Jonestown massacre, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, and UFO sightings

1991 hardcover by Paragon House; ISBN 1557783845; Subject: Law & Government

ITEM MO28...THE BECOMERS Miller $4

[WB]ITEM WB10a…HOW TO INTERPRET YOUR OWN DREAMS Tom Chetwynd $9

ITEM YA08…THE SILENTS Charlotte Abrams $9

[AH]ITEM YB19…BIRTH OF A MODERN SHAMAN C. Bend & T. Wiger $9

[HE,]ITEM YB89...THE ENERGY EVOLUTION [FREE ENERGY/VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER] translated by Callum Coats $45

Author:  Viktor Schauberger  Publisher:  Gateway Books  ISBN-10:  1858600618

Subject:  Science & Technology  Format:  Paperback  Language:  English

Printing Year:  2001 Condition:  Very Good  Series: Eco-Technology Series

Editor: Callum Coats  Length: 160 pages

ITEM YD85…THE QUEST FOR THE TRUE CROSS Thiede & d’Ancona $6

By focusing on the fragment of the Titulus Crucis, the inscribed headboard from Christ's cross, the authors challenge the modern view that all supposedly holy relics are fakes by providing evidence that weaves together history, archaeology, myth, religion, and science, taking readers on a fascinating tour through the ancient world that might change their beliefs forever. Thiede and d'Ancona argue that the Santa Croce titulus--a fragment of the cross headboard that mockingly proclaimed Jesus the King of the Jews--is the genuine article.

2002 hardcover; ISBN 0312294247; on7307

ITEM YT98…EARTH LIGHTS REVELATION Paul Devereux $17

ITEM ZP11...DUMMY Ernest Tidyman $200

ITEM 0491…FROM ELVIS TO E-MAIL Paul Dickson $17

ITEM 0492…ALPHA MU OMEGA Iilazzandroff N. Chickalo $30

ITEM 0493…SCIENCE & UNREASON Radner & Radner $18

1982 softcover by Wadsworth Publishing; ISBN 0534011535; Subject: Science & Technology

ITEM 0494…THE BASIC WORKS OF ARISTOTLE McKeon $40

[CQ]ITEM 0584... FIREARMS OWNERSHIP AND USE IN CANADA: A REPORT OF SURVEY FINDINGS, 1976 Stenning/Moyer $10
Working papers of the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
ISBN 0919584519 hardcover, ex-library with much cover and spine wear and
usual markings, inside good, 1981,fair[non-fiction: true crime]

Electronic Items:

[AH]ITEM AH40...LIBEL AND SLANDER OF ART TITLE ISSUES $2

Ontario Small Claims Court File Number SC09-82782-00
Otavnik VS Sinclair RE: Norval Morrisseau painting “Jesuit Spreading the Word”
Final Plaintiff Submission [114 pages]
This is the document filed with the judge on April 15, 2009 and provides an excellent overview on libel and slander court precedents as they apply to published (including on the internet) commentary on the authenticity of art.

[AH]ITEM AH41...INJUNCTION AGAINST ART DEFAMATION $2

Ontario Superior Court of Justice File Number CV-08-00366828 Dec. 8, 2008

Judgement granting the plaintiffs an injunction restraining Ritchie Sinclair from comment on Norval Morrisseau art [16 pages]

McLeod, Bugera, White, Child & Kim vs Ritchie Sinclair

This judgement gives an excellent overview of precedents in law as they apply to achieving a balance between rights to free speech and rights to free trade.

MANUSCRIPT NOTES OR RESEARCH:

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

0592...English historian, Fraser-Tyler:  “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always vote for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."

0615...Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774_1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

0616... “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence.  It is force.  And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”—George Washington

Friday 20 April 2012

AN EXISTENTIALIST POEM


AN EXISTENTIALIST POEM

pleasant word flow

smooth pleasure glow

cocoa in the snow

red cheeks of a doll

she, sledding to a fall

i, in mem’ry of it all



Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum




Thursday 19 April 2012

and the Word of Allah came to me: Shout these words at Washington

THE SECOND BOOK OF JEREMIAH (Chronicles of the Prophet)
0556...CHAPTER FOUR
and the Word of Allah came to me:
Shout these words at Washington:
Mind when we were at love
in this milk and honey land,
face to face!  Why do you shove
away still, as I still stand –
have you found adultery in me?
Can your judges’ and politicians’
ignorance husband you, or see
my law?  Can the transgressions
of your pastors embriden you?
Or, are you now twice-divorced:
first turning off the vortex fountain to
all affection, then carrying water forced
into a sieve?  You find no drink
or goodness there!  Evil and bitter
is such emptiness, yet you think
polluted waters are much fitter
drink than mine? Mind! how I broke
your bond to self-made gods and death!
Why do you seek, oh, why do you yoke
to stone and steel that has no breath?
See how polluted waters have polluted you –
you deny you are unclean?  Why
do you wash and scrub if not to
hide your shame?  And tho they try,
your home-made gods of stone and stick
shall ne’er astonish earth nor heaven,
nor ever learn such grand new trick
where panther will its spots unleaven!
Alas!  I’ve spanked you so in vain
-- you have accepted no correction –
alas, alone I’ve borne the pain
as you make bloody my every mission.

Shall I then take you bride again!!??

Copyright ©1974, 2012 K’lakokum 
[Jeremiah, the second witness to Jerusalem]


Tuesday 3 April 2012

BLACK MILK: A LAMENT OF GERMANY


BLACK MILK: A LAMENT OF GERMANY

for Karl (black) 1924-1952,

for Paul (yellow) 1924-1976,

for Herbert (pink) 1924-2000;

three victims of the holocaust



black milk of your mourning

you drank in your evenings

to nourish you mid-day and morning and early

you drank and you drank

as you shoveled and dug

out a grave in the clouds

where you lie unpinched

Your ashen hair     yellow star as you dug

your own grave in the clouds

for your elbow room



black milk of the morning

you drank it nights

you drank it morning and mid-day and even

you drank and you drank

Your ashen hair     triangle pink as you dug

out a grave in the clouds

where you lie unpinched



my uncle in the house

played with your snakes

and wrote when it darkened

to Germany     your golden hair Herbert

and wrote it and stepped out

to whistle for his dogs

to whistle for his queers dig

out a grave in the earth

and whistled faggots, dance!



he cried dig deeper sing and play

and wielded the whip as his eyes were blue

dig deeper sing and play for me dance







my uncle in the house

played with your queues

play sweeter the death song

death is a master from Germany

who cries more softly your music

you’ll rise as the smoke to the clouds

of your grave

where you’ll lie unpinched

but writes in the house

your golden hair Herbie



he shouts his dogs upon you

and grants you a grave in the air

a grave in the smoke and the clouds

plays with the queues and writes

your golden hair Herbert

plays with the snakes and dreams

of a day without fear

your golden hair



but drafts in his fear

and plays in their hate

on his hate of their fear

and his fear of their hate



black uniformed in the morning

he slips up one morning

at the gate of the camp

at the head of the queue

where he screams recognition:

your golden hair, Herbert!



your golden hair



your ashen hair!









Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum



This is the introductory poem for an as yet unpublished novel about three Fryslan lads that meet as participating sopranos at a community glee club.  They reach puberty together.  They share a sexual orientation and a love for music – everything else tries to tear them apart.  Three gay lads – one a Jew, one a Nazi, one a murderer...