Metafiscal Cliff [Week's News Poem by Khakjaan Wessington, November 30, 2012]
Beginning my descent smothered in air,
I missed the stair.
We all arrive at disaster,
Only, I'm faster.
Scrooge is only a partial exemption:
They remember the jerk, not his
redemption.
I surmised that I did the same thing
And you will too.
“"If
Congress does nothing, every family in America will see their taxes
automatically go up on January 1," Obama said at a factory that
makes Tinkertoys, among other things, in suburban Philadelphia.
"That's sort of like the lump of coal you get for Christmas.
That's a Scrooge Christmas."”
—Mark
Felsenthal, Reuters, HATFIELD, Penn. | Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:51pm EST
“Two people died and scores of people
were hurt Thursday when up to 140 vehicles collided in in dense fog
Southeast Texas in a pileup that left trucks twisted on top of each
other and authorities rushing to pull survivors from the wreckage. ”
—NBC News staff and news services,
The Associated Press and Reuters, 6:50 p.m. ET
Will of Sabotage [Week's News Poem
by Khakjaan Wessington, November 16, 2012]
Peace sounds like a great idea.
When we are angry, war sounds like a
better idea.
War is the idea that you know you will
stop being angry later.
Violence is the choice to do something
irrevocable.
“Israel's
cabinet authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists late
on Friday, preparing the ground for a possible Gaza invasion after
Palestinians fired a rocket toward Jerusalem for the first time in
decades.”
—Nidal
al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller, Reuters, GAZA/JERUSALEM | Fri Nov 16,
2012 5:31pm EST
Political Mistletoe [Week's News Poem,
November 9, 2012]
A Halloween sweet tooth lasts all
season long;
There are far more tricks than treats.
A goose is cooked, the turkey's fried;
Soon fat men will impersonate Santa.
Elections are over, the cliff of the
year approaches;
Pucker up for a kiss, but first close
your eyes.
“U.S. House
of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Friday called on President
Barack Obama to lead the efforts to avert the $600 billion "fiscal
cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts looming at year's end, but
stood by his opposition to any tax rate increases on the wealthy.”
—Reporting By David Lawder; Editing by Vicki Allen; Reuters, Fri
Nov 9, 2012 12:02pm EST
Ignoble Warning [Week's News Poem by
Khakjaan Wessington, November 2, 2012]
Money never wakens—it's dream and our
creation;
Reflects our decisions—the worthiest
divisions
Of spoils (for everything spoils, what
doesn't toil).
I dreamed I wandered away from
familiar—beyond—
Where Palestinians live in a duck blind
and extract
A toll they want from me, but cannot
get, from a teenager.
They stood him next to me, held out his
trembling, hairless arm,
And sawed the first joint off his thumb,
fed him jalapeno peppers
And let him bleed to death—he bled to
death and they blamed me
And so did I.
“The
trading week was shortened by a historic two-day market closure on
Monday and Tuesday, spurred by superstorm Sandy's devastating sweep
through the U.S. Northeast.
"We started off on strength, with
nonfarm payrolls coming in above expectations. Then we drifted lower
during the day. It's hard to determine what direction we are in -
with the two days off, it's really been a strange week," said
Fred Dickson, chief market strategist at D.A. Davidson & Co, in
Lake Oswego, Oregon.”
—Chuck
Mikolajczak, Reuters, NEW YORK | Fri Nov 2, 2012 4:33pm EDT
“The parents of two butchered Upper
West Side kids asked their financially strapped nanny to do simple
housework as a way to earn more money — but all that did was enrage
the woman, law-enforcement sources told The Post. “She said
something like, ‘I’m paid to watch the children, not clean up and
do housework,’ ” a law-enforcement source said of Yoselyn
Ortega’s statements to cops after she woke up from a medically
induced coma Sunday.”
—JAMIE SCHRAM and LARRY CELONA, New
York Post Last Updated: 3:54 AM, November 2, 2012, Posted: 1:53 AM,
November 2, 2012
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