{"id":454,"date":"2008-09-24T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-07-24T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:04:27","slug":"poetry-pictures-n-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Poetry, Pictures ‘n Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headline about sums up my life. Forty (or so) years ago poet Philip Whalen<\/strong> wrote:<\/p>\n

Our main difficulty: fear and distrust of freedom<\/p>\n

In America we’ve been fighting each other 100 years
\nWe pretend we’re unimaginably rich
\nBut we’re poor and afraid of the poor who must become
\nThe Army to defend us against right and wrong<\/p>\n

The real shame of America is the lack of an anti-clerical
\nMovement or party. All parties try to compound
\nWith invisible State Protestant Church that theoretically
\nDoesn’t exist. Rubes who think of themselves as
\nMembers in good standing are bilked and robbed<\/p>\n

When did the dumb-bunny bomb first hit U.S.A?
\nHow come everybody appreciated it so much?
\nAlmost all Americans aged 4 to 100
\nHave the spiritual natures of Chicago policemen<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Singer\/songwriter Shawn Mullins <\/strong>performed at the historic Pabst Theatre\u00a0Sunday, 9\/21\/08\u00a0(with Dar Williams headlining).\u00a0Shawn reinforced my belief in the power of a talented story teller with a deep heart and a guitar. His character sketches bring to mind the people we’ve all met along life’s highway.<\/p>\n

Selected “photographic” lyrics from Another Look <\/em>by Shawn Mullins<\/p>\n

Another look into her might just free me now.
\nI feel the drowning pounding of her pain
\nand her dreams like eyes,
\nas she looks into my sin.
\nSo knowing where and why she’s looking through my window.
\nThe cameraman wants to take her picture.
\nNow words spill out of hearts onto the stone,
\nand her image ties the knot of never knowing
\nthe whole truth from lies.
\nFeels like I’m just now showing pictures to the man
\nwhose dreams are realized.
\nHe’s older now but he’s got newborn eyes.
\nAnother look into her might just set me free.
\nI took her like a shot into my arm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headline about sums up my life. Forty (or so) years ago poet Philip Whalen wrote: Our main difficulty: fear and distrust of freedom In America we’ve been fighting each other 100 years We pretend we’re unimaginably rich But we’re poor and afraid of the poor who must become The Army to defend us against right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,32,19,53,57,34,17,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-hand-made","category-literature","category-music","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}