I thought this poem was pretty appropriate given the recent passing of Michael Jackson. Williams wrote this in 1923 but it applies to MJ, Elvis, Judy Garland, Kurt Cobain, etc. The first line says it all.
The pure products of America
go crazy —
mountain folk from Kentucky
or the ribbed north end of
Jersey
with its isolate lakes and
valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves
old names
and promiscuity between
devil-may-care men who have taken
to railroading
out of sheer lust of adventure —
and young slatterns, bathed
in filth
from monday to Saturday
to be tricked out that night
with gauds
from imaginations which have no
peasant traditions to give them
character
but flutter and flaunt
sheer rags – succumbing without
emotion
save numbed terror
under some hedge of choke-cherry
or viburnum —
which they cannot express —
Unless it be that marriage
perhaps
with a dash of Indian blood
will throw up a girl so desolate
so hemmed round
with disease and murder
that she’ll be rescued by an
agent —
reared by the state and
sent out a fifteen to work in
some hard-pressed
house in the suburbs —
some doctor’s family, some Elsie
voluptuous water
expressing with broken
brain the truth about us —
her great
ungainly hips and flopping breasts
addressed to cheap
jewelry
and rich young men with fine eyes
as if the earth under our feet
were
an excrement of some sky
and we degraded prisoners
destined
to hunger until we eat filth
while the imagination strains
after deer
going by fields of goldenrod in
the stifling heat of September
Somehow
it seem to destroy us
It is only in isolate flecks that
something
is given off
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
William Carlos Williams
(XVIII of “Spring and All”)
Felt like I needed to post this. 4 seconds. That’s how long it took for him to moonwalk across the stage. That’s how long it took for him to reach the stratosphere. And he’s lip synching. And nobody cares. Amazing.
Surfing pundits are now weighing in on this high-flying rotating-flip into a reverse 360, and most are referring to it as the most high-performance maneuver ever executed on a wave.
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Slovenian choir Perpetuum Jazzile. Peep the original below
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Episode 2: A sneak peek of the behind-the-scenes action on the set of Wale’s new video Chillin’ featuring Lady Gaga and directed by Chris Robinson.
Wale was at Interscope all day today and he had a surprise waiting for him! Custom white/yellow/red/black with DC flag on one ear and MD flag on the other. So sick.
Click HERE for full article. It’s a surprise what song of Wale’s is on there and how it will be mixed but I promise you it’s dope! The game is incredible too.
