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Democracy

Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.
Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Lest We Forget! Twenty years ago!

Waiting for You to Come

I waited for you the other day,
But you did not come.
Knowing that you would not come,
I only hoped that you would come.
Until now, you still haven’t come,
Yet I am still hoping that you could come.
Eventually, you will come,
And I will always wait for you to come.
(1989.12)

translated by Lucy Lin

等你來
(1989.12)
那天等你來
你卻沒有來
知你會不來
我只盼你來
至今你未來
我仍盼你來
終究你會來
永遠等你來
(注: 这里的那个”你”是指什么来这儿的朋友应该是心照不宣了, 快二十年过去了, 我还在等.)
知名不具 2009.2

Yeats' Crazy Jane & Jack the Journeyman

Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman

I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone,
For love is but a skein unwound
Between the dark and dawn.

A lonely ghost the ghost is
That to God shall come;
I - love's skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb -
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother's womb.

But were I left to lie alone
In an empty bed,
The skein so bound us ghost to ghost
When he turned his head
passing on the road that night,
Mine must walk when dead.

William Butler Yeats

Yet Another Nursey Rhyme from Grandma Tess

I went downtown
to buy a penny drum
I knocked on the door
but nobody come
So I up with a brick,
broke a pane of glass
And out come baby
Slidin' on her
Ask me no questions

More Rhymes from Grandma Tess

Mikkel one day
He shlept in the hay
The rats and the mice
Jumped over

When he awoke
His dúidíns was broke
And nary-a schmoke
Had Mikkel the Moler

Nursery Rhymes from Grandma Tess

Thundermug

Taffy was a Welshman
Taffy was a thief
Taffy came to my house
And stole a leg I beef

I went to Taffy's house
Taffy wasn't home
Taffy came to my house
And stole a leg of bone

I went to Taffy's house
And Taffy was in bed
So I up with the thundermug
And hit him on the head

College Basketball Officiation--a Downward Spiral?

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Every year it seems to me that the mayhem permitted on the college basketball court is more vicious and flagrant. The officials seem to ignore the most flagrant fouls and call the little touch fouls. The 2009 NCAA tournament reminded me of nothing so much as the inept officiation the last soccer World Cup tournament.

Get in control of the game and bring back skill--leave the combat to the gridiron! One man's opinion!