For bitten lips and subtle slips of swollen tongues, Are solaced by oil and wine, and by soil and loam, Form furrows and thighs where he lies as she pines...

MIDLAND, 15 May 2010
by D.C. Quillan Stone

With torrid desire but anon a sordid goddamn fire
Sunk in mire cooled lusciously, upsurges in skirt
Off shirt then lurches, callously on malicious knees
Bent at ease so to pitch to tease rather to please
Shit, the world enlarges and by it, his largesse fits
Within terse stenches of dung piles and curt curses
As his brain immerses into inebriation’s oblivion
Scintillation eludes, please excuse the constipation
Asphyxiation of academism, enervation of paroxysm
Lost `tween hinterland and heartland, the awry line
Mass straddled by misguided others spuriously wise
Attacking laissez faire due to lacking a savoir-faire
Mob-petitioning the theologians as well politicians
While positioning flags over hills mid fuckin’ dales
Situated akin to defend, end-to-end, with dull hones
Masturbating daggers and dirks along shifting silt
Where arrogant men tilt withstanding jigs and gigs
Yet contrary is passion’s estuary of quietus’ screams
The silent resonance within orbs, loins, and mouths
Defining analogies and metaphors due each quiver
(Such struggle for givers and much tussle for takers)
Though the yeas for nays rouse her merited frigidity
As his reserved rigidity, their timidity, softly storm
For bitten lips and subtle slips of swollen tongues
Are solaced by oil and wine, and by soil and loam
Form furrows and thighs where he lies as she pines

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Tu voz es una calurosa manta india, Por las noches sin linternas antiguas, En extraños inviernos modernos, Por las calles hondas...

TU VOZ by D.C. Quillan Stone
31 August 2011

Note:
An early attempt to write a Spanish poem, revised several times, published in my 7th book, The Third Fall of Race Brook: A Poetic Novel & Poems for J. (May 2015). I was inspired years prior to learn Spanish upon reading the soneto (further below) by Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas (1580-1645). And of course, there is story behind the posted image, somewhat told in the aforementioned poetic novel...

Tu voz es una calurosa manta india
Por las noches sin linternas antiguas
En extraños inviernos modernos
Por las calles hondas
Dónde las lámparas no queman
Cuando la luna lleva una abrigo negro
Cuando el sol duerme en un coma atómico
Y cuando la sangre tibia y el barro frio se mezclan
Pero siempre...
Tu voz es una calurosa manta india

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El soneto por Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645)...

Si quien ha de pintaros ha de veros,
y no es posible sin cegar miraros,
¿Quién será poderoso a retrataros,
sin ofender su vista y ofenderos?

En nieve y rosas quise floreceros;
mas fuera honrar las rosas y agraviaros;
dos luceros por ojos quise daros;
mas ¿cuándo lo soñaron los luceros?

Conocí el imposible en el bosquejo;
mas vuestro espejo a vuestra lumbre propia
aseguró el acierto en su reflejo.

Podráos él retratar sin luz impropia,
siendo vos de vos propria, en el espejo,
original, pintor, pincel y copia.

As another sweltry June eve approaches... The MEMPHIS NIGHTCLUB MURDERS & Other Poetic Mysteries (2017)...

As another sweltry June eve approaches in Mississippi, it should not so arrive without rye on rocks garnished by mint, and poetically complimented with a Peter Gunn-esque murder mystery... :-)

Rhyme on Rye No. 23

“As gun-smoked films noir, and hate-stoked dames are

The unexpected usually, unsuspected presumably starred

In spars and schemes bizarre, to mar, scar, for all to see

O her revenge cold, as barren wold or endless cruel seas”

Rhyme on Rye No. 27

“Whiskey douses whole; love’s affairs, later life’s wares

Staring fraught, dreaming lost, such insistence for despair

Fairest not the ego, darkest the soul ergo, forever 3:00 AM

Suspending in goddamn ends, while pretending to begin”

Rhyme on Rye No. 30

“Adrenaline’s mind-fuck, within bars’ muck and swap

Prating malaprops, inflating luck, amid vomit mopped

Aft tricks nonstop, such belated drops; blood and tears

Fitly, propensities’ mud in humanity’s coils and gears”

Note:

Rhymes from the collection The MEMPHIS NIGHTCLUB MURDERS & Other Poetic Mysteries (2017). See site or click on pics for more information.

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To young Fathers and Those to be... Be a Man!

To young Fathers and Those to be...

For family... Be a Man! Provide sustenance and maintenance. Defend conscience and faith. Protect life, liberty as well property. Full bear all responsibilities and risks for one's own thought, speech and action.

For everyone else... Be a Man! Speak each word o'er truth. Walk each step with purpose. Shake each hand as contract. Logically examine then confidently deliberate your consent with others. Constantly respect then consistently regard the dissent of others.

For oneself... Be a Man! Live life not long but live life well. Meet life then greet death with grit in teeth, strength of hand, steadiness `neath foot, confession `tween lips, smirk soon smile upon face, with no regret, with no fear.

I thankfully profess as a father of three daughters and sons-in-law, grandfather of six grandsons and three granddaughters.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

The Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us... Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)

In the mid-19th century, the matter of "ruling from the grave" was logically, ethically claimed (read below quote) as raised prior by late-18th century Anti-Federalists....

"And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see."

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) wrote further thus condemned then the already oversized Federal Government as well properly critiqued the US Constitution for allowing it, as per his 1867 essay "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority"...

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Private property my country, family and friends my countrymen, shirt-off-my-back my flag... I pledge allegiance to no other!

 

Government, if allowed will digress unapologetically into tyranny...

 

Two Propositions with Justifications then brief Conclusion on Human Nature and Government Power...

Two Propositions with Justifications then brief Conclusion on Human Nature and Government Power...

Note:
The below as part of the ever-growing rough notes while studying for my next and 12th book project, to be the 3rd book in topical series; Further Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

1a. Proposition; it is not that any one person may be corrupt, rather each and every person therefore human nature is corrupt.

1b. Justification; whether contending observably, consistently, theologically "all have sinned" or observably, consistently, logically "all propend towards error and excess", either posture compounds then complicates, exasperates then expands per humanity as non-divinity therefore non-omnipresent or limited existence, non-omniscient or limited knowledge, non-omnipotent or limited capability. Within this context humanity unavoidably covets, envies, presumes, angers, imposes and violates, restrained solely by bearing ethically one's own responsibility and risk else bore by another voluntarily thus unwisely or forcefully thus immorally. The only alternative argument is humanity possessing none of the aforementioned inherencies hence perfection or nearly so; a consideration obviously fantastical while ignorant narcissistically else arrogant covetously.

2a. Proposition; it is not that government power may be corruptive, rather government power is always corruptive. 

2b. Justification; power, whether governmental or other forms, enables then encourages even excites the mitigation of responsibility and risk, unleashing humanity's innate covetousness, presumptuousness, excessiveness, erroneousness and varieties thereof. Rare and few the persons able to resist the temptation. So much so, well concocted the political sciences, isms, ideologies, nothing more than clever twists and turns of words and phrases by academia and intelligentsia seductively funded, whorishly subsidized by those who covetously seek governmental power, that is, the power over others' person, preference, possession and property.

3. Conclusion; if corrupt each and every person, and if corruptive always government power, then upon endowing person(s) corrupt with governmental power(s) corruptive, corruption will exasperate then compound, expand then complicate and do so accumulatively perhaps exponentially.

More to come...

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Popular acceptance or rejection is no criterion of a basic truth... Quotes from Aristole's Organon/Posterior Analytics and commentary...

"Popular acceptance or rejection is no criterion of a basic truth", as Aristotle observed then concluded 2300+/- years ago.

Most likely he concluded amid suspicious narratives driven by surreptitious dynamics as resisted and rejected by a logical, ethical remnant today, as well in the past by Gareth Jones (1905-1935, see 2019 film "Mr. Jones"), Albert J. Nock (1870-1945, read his 1922 book "The Myth of a Guilty Nation"), Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850, read his essays "The Law", particularly "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen") and others of like insight upon like integrity. For context, the Greek polymath elaborated...

"Since the object of pure scientific knowledge cannot be other than it is, the truth obtained by demonstrative knowledge will be necessary. And since demonstrative knowledge is only present when we have a demonstration, it follows that demonstration is an inference from necessary premises. So we must consider what are the premises of demonstration --- i.e. what is their character: and as a preliminary, let us define what we mean by an attribute "true in every instance of its subject', an 'essential' attribute, and a 'commensurate' and universal' attribute. I call 'true in every instance' what is truly predicable of all instances --- not of one to the exclusion of others --- and at all times, not at this or that time only... A corresponding account holds if point is in every instance predicable as contained in line...  We must not fail to observe that we often fall into error because our conclusion is not in fact primary and commensurately universal in the sense in which we think we prove it so. We make this mistake when the subject is an individual (exception, accident) or individuals above which there is no universal to be found: when the subjects belong to different species and there is a higher universal, but it has no name (yet discovered)... How naïve it is to suppose one's basic truths rightly chosen if one starts with a proposition which is popularly accepted... For popular acceptance or rejection is no criterion of a basic truth."

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Note:
Excerpts taken from Posterior Analytics of his larger work Organon, as translated by Richard McKeon (1900-1985), edited by C.D.C Reeve (1948-present).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

When more and more individuals resist self-reliance while insisting dependency upon others...

Proem & Poem No. 143 - Individualistic / Reprise

When more and more individuals resist self-reliance while insisting dependency upon others and/or government, worse becomes the economy as well culture, language, discourse, intellect, judgment, fortitude, moral character therefore the whole society.

When more and more individuals insist self-reliance while resisting dependency upon others and/or government, better becomes the economy as well culture, language, discourse, intellect, judgment, fortitude, moral character therefore the whole society.

And so go the simplicity thus the consistency in logical observation, truth self-evident, whereas complexity, perplexity, chronic confusion and relentless rejection persist solely per covetousness left unrestrained.

---

Keen then preened, often seems on flattened screens
Walking dead as talking heads, surreal’ing the schemes
Silencing the screams, policing hence fleecing, greasing
Dulling the five senses by the late night white-noise’ing

---

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Note:
As taken from my 11th book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

10th, 11th & 12th books on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters...

10th book... 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters... Click on title or cover to review/purchase.

11th book... More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters... Click on title or cover to review/purchase.

12th book... Further Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters... Currently studying and outlining for this project, anticipating to be the most arduous thus preoccupation already burdensome.

Speculating a title modification, slight yet perhaps necessary per book's intent; Further Proems, Poems & Propositions on the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, Singular Human Right to Consent & Other Neglected Matters... as though not long enough. :-)

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Currently studying and outlining for 12th book project...

Currently studying and outlining for 12th book project, anticipating to be the most arduous thus preoccupation already burdensome...

Speculating a title modification, slight yet perhaps necessary per book's intent; Further Proems, Poems & Propositions on the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, Singular Human Right to Consent & Other Neglected Matters... as though not long enough. :-)

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18. Mt 5:9... Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

 

Peace is not Dead... Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.