Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Garbanzo Opera
When I was six, garbanzo
beans felt like grainy
mud-pebbles to my mouth.
They tasted like a menacing
nothing. When I picked
them out of a salad
and marched them to the edge
of the plate, a parent's
order became inevitable:
"Finish them." Finishing them,
I gagged. They became
soft bullets of
esophageal assassination.
Now I love the little
bastards. I bathe them
in olive oil, bequeath
unto them garlic and pepper.
I now know their nom de
guerre: chick peas.
People may not
change, but their taste-
buds do, and I would pay
good money to go to
see a garbanzo opera.
hans ostrom 2013
beans felt like grainy
mud-pebbles to my mouth.
They tasted like a menacing
nothing. When I picked
them out of a salad
and marched them to the edge
of the plate, a parent's
order became inevitable:
"Finish them." Finishing them,
I gagged. They became
soft bullets of
esophageal assassination.
Now I love the little
bastards. I bathe them
in olive oil, bequeath
unto them garlic and pepper.
I now know their nom de
guerre: chick peas.
People may not
change, but their taste-
buds do, and I would pay
good money to go to
see a garbanzo opera.
hans ostrom 2013
Corporations Keep Rats
Corporations keep rats.
They keep them running.
The rats have some cash,
which they pay
the corporation for stuff
the corporations make.
Run there! Pay here!
The bait is technology.
Hey,rat, run after
the new eye-fone 18.3Z!
Pay cash first! Or
put it on a rat-card!
Imagine if the rats
turned around one day
and said, Rat Master,
we don't want any
more stuff right now.
We like the look
of your throat. That's
what we want. For free.
hans ostrom 2013
They keep them running.
The rats have some cash,
which they pay
the corporation for stuff
the corporations make.
Run there! Pay here!
The bait is technology.
Hey,rat, run after
the new eye-fone 18.3Z!
Pay cash first! Or
put it on a rat-card!
Imagine if the rats
turned around one day
and said, Rat Master,
we don't want any
more stuff right now.
We like the look
of your throat. That's
what we want. For free.
hans ostrom 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
How White Operates, Too Often
Way too often, White
goes out like a boomerang
toward what is right
and fair and just, only
to turn in reactionary air
and curve home, home,
to righteous hate, selective
outrage, a change of "heart,"
smug safety, reunion with
old friends, and other amenities
of the supremacists' field
from which
the boomerang
was launched.
Whether you're Black
or White or something else,
here's the thing: if
you truly "get it,"
then you will know
what "it" is, and
you'll nod at
the tautology
(for sure),
and so,
you know,
no doubt
gratuitously,
I advise:
Beware of the White
radical, the White liberal,
the White conservative, and
it goes without saying
the White unapologetic bigot
spewing hate like a spigot.
Beware of them all. Be
unsurprised if they turn
back, if they curve a return to
"home," if, in fact,
they simply are not able.
For they are simple and White,
terrifyingly simple,
and they live
in a White-rewarding world,
and in most cases,
over the long haul,
they are not able.
They just aren't able.
hans ostrom 2013
goes out like a boomerang
toward what is right
and fair and just, only
to turn in reactionary air
and curve home, home,
to righteous hate, selective
outrage, a change of "heart,"
smug safety, reunion with
old friends, and other amenities
of the supremacists' field
from which
the boomerang
was launched.
Whether you're Black
or White or something else,
here's the thing: if
you truly "get it,"
then you will know
what "it" is, and
you'll nod at
the tautology
(for sure),
and so,
you know,
no doubt
gratuitously,
I advise:
Beware of the White
radical, the White liberal,
the White conservative, and
it goes without saying
the White unapologetic bigot
spewing hate like a spigot.
Beware of them all. Be
unsurprised if they turn
back, if they curve a return to
"home," if, in fact,
they simply are not able.
For they are simple and White,
terrifyingly simple,
and they live
in a White-rewarding world,
and in most cases,
over the long haul,
they are not able.
They just aren't able.
hans ostrom 2013
Computer As Penis, Penis As Computer
You have unused icons on your penis.
Your penis is at risk: no firewall is turned on.
Your penis will restart in 30 seconds.
Would you like a full or partial scan
of your penis?
Your penis needs updating.
Would you like to upgrade to Penis 3.0?
The program, penis.dic has
encountered an error.
Please restart your penis.
Download the latest version of penis.dic.
Scan your penis for malware?
Scan has detected 8 problems with your penis.
Report as penis-spam?
You are forbidden from accessing this penis-page.
New penis.dic software is available.
Your penis hard-drive has crashed.
Report error to penis.dic?
Please tell penis.dic about this problem.
Would you like to change your penis password?
Log off penis?
hans ostrom 2013
Your penis is at risk: no firewall is turned on.
Your penis will restart in 30 seconds.
Would you like a full or partial scan
of your penis?
Your penis needs updating.
Would you like to upgrade to Penis 3.0?
The program, penis.dic has
encountered an error.
Please restart your penis.
Download the latest version of penis.dic.
Scan your penis for malware?
Scan has detected 8 problems with your penis.
Report as penis-spam?
You are forbidden from accessing this penis-page.
New penis.dic software is available.
Your penis hard-drive has crashed.
Report error to penis.dic?
Please tell penis.dic about this problem.
Would you like to change your penis password?
Log off penis?
hans ostrom 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
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