Down the Path, Past the Cow by the Foundation Where the Fine People's House Was Before They Arranged to Have It Burned Down

This one paragraph sums up the symbiotic clusterfuck that renders all our screaming about American political economy ineffectual self-indulgence:

The Defense Department has kept up its immense purchases of aviation fuel and other petroleum products from BP even as the oil giant comes under federal and state scrutiny for potential violations of clean-water and oil-spill laws related to the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to U.S. and company officials.

 

Fred, the water, found yesterday in a Sheetz at US 40 and MD 66 in eastern Washington County, an inside joke AND a symbol of marketing cynicism, a pint of water in a plastic bottle molded to resemble a pint of vodka.

Awesome. Please fire some teachers so our dealers and pimps get the bonuses they work so hard for and so richly deserve.

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SUMMER AT BLUE CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA

Jack Gilbert

There was no water at my grandfather's
when I was a kid and would go for it
with two zinc buckets. Down the path,
past the cow by the foundation where
the fine people's house was before
they arranged to have it burned down.
To the neighbor's cool well. Would
come back with pails too heavy,
so my mouth pulled out of shape.
I see myself, but from the outside.
I keep trying to feel who I was,
and cannot. Hear clearly the sound
the bucket made hitting the sides
of the stone well going down,
but never the sound of me.

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