on my earlier posting re: Ralph Nader...

The question from the Nader website was
"Why doesn’t Ralph just sit this year out?"

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( Okay here's the thoughts )

That's the very definition of a crisis. And it's enough of a reason to a) not vote for Ralph Nader, and b) specifically take time out of my day (and yours) to ask him to stand down.

kiss me goodbye

I'm sorry somehow, but I haven't got the language
only a little burned inside and comically tragic
I'm feeling trivial and quadrivial
and exquisitely liminal
until the rain comes down
until the rain comes down
dreamed out of my head by the sky-scratching trees
the fires of sunset, the urgent need to breathe
but someone took a part of me
and I wish'd I could give more
how I wish'd I could give more
now held up, white-light-like, a prism wound backward
dredged up, reconnected and all smilingly awkward
my resonant, resident, somnambulant longing
for the desert
the desert
the desert of the past