CONFESSION ZERO (The Weaver's Song)

Guantanamo inmate to be released
Unaccountable flesh and bone and greed and cruelty mixed in with the fineness of a discarded spider’s leg and everything else that we’ll soon release of ourselves.

Iran to release prominent reformist from jail
Stride slowly now warrior... over the sidewalk toward your battle. It will be this taste, this air that you shall carry for others to breathe.

House Democrats clinch healthcare deal
There is still a little life left in you, inside thy sacrosanct chamber a small portion of duty and sympathy. It is this tenacity we desire; decency, within each of you singing stridently. Now get back to the people's business, there's much more work to do.

Mayan Calendar Spurs End-Of-The-World Debate
This is what I know of ancient thought- It is a map of the world best not read with certainty. These things have myth and wonderment attached to them. History for them has already moved on. They wept. They danced. They dreamed.

Extreme Right Wing Racists Like Beck, Dobbs and Others Are Having Difficulty Controlling Their Core Racist Beliefs!
Jackals lunge for the shadows of noise. Nasty are these beasts of prey. They do their barmy beast worship upon our cheerless faces. Bigotry. Failure. Begin again humanity.

Single-Prayer Option from The Middle of Nowhere by Elizabeth Mika
Some things are already beautiful…

Iran 'releases 140 demonstrators'
Was it dark in there? Were you in pain? Is it light outside on the path to sovereignty? Do you have the same evil upon your streets as we? Why does gloom sit with you on the crimson sidewalk?

Careful that you not tarry long, for wickedness will surely wipe the efforts of tyrants upon your joy.

Gates says U.S. urban pullout in Iraq going well
Are you proud?

Rush to war has made us slaves, not free men. America, listen to this- the clack of warfare and greed are noiseless compared to the sharp whip of slavery which is giving birth to a world that will soon bow to tyranny.

Iraqi Forces Reportedly Open Fire, Beat Iranian Exiles
Has it endured our stay? Has it remained; death? Through the liquid sidewalks and solid air I can see the faces of those still trapped there, staring out with astonishment that their brother had come to kill them.

Suspect In Abortion Doctor's Death Pleads Not Guilty
How does it feel to be "Not guilty"? Yes. You're not guilty of aborting a fetus or guilty of abandoning your tired faith or guilty of rising above your ignorance. You’re not guilty, but you are a murderer.

Study: Tanning beds up cancer risk
New study just released says that nearly all findings in studies like this are known to people with a heart beat. Another study filed under “No kidding!”

Taliban threatens to kill captured GI
A colossal, gloom stuffed breathing thing moved over the land with a push from inadvertent liberty. They said they weren’t sure if it was from this world and begged the hostage to find the nearest well hole and drag it kicking and screaming down with him...

Chaos besets 9/11 court hearing
O, thank you, lords of turmoil, thank you for this stunning day; how bone quaking hideous it must be.


Keep Guantanamo open, September 11 families say
Great red gash spreading open with terror in its womb; all those who love this land stand and watch with dismay.

Judge Sotomayor and My Lesson From Eighth Grade
The little girl wore her best outfit to school. Her mother knitted it for her in much the same way she had woven the sweet child from birth, knowing it would never be enough for some.

Blasts kill 2 Marines in Afghanistan
As we stand near the afternoon window and the sun dances through the glass, someplace a marine gets lifted and children lose their mom or dad in the crowd while our hearts pound out misery’s song.

Children die in harsh Peru winter
The snow unfastens a child’s fortress and a bluebird’s song- their expression moves through the Inca Empire where an enduring chain of anticipation shadows a cruel, beautiful landscape.

Cheney hid CIA program from Congress: senator
It must be a lonely walk into the fortified mind bent upon the insensible air of cruelty leaning smugly against the wall.

Two Held in Murder of Fla. Couple With 16 Kids
Murder, must you rear your monstrous head within this? Must you grin with such pride at having triumphed? Soon you shall be asked, “Is death done with you?”

6 Baghdad churches bombed; 4 dead
Why must they weep so? Aren’t they proficient at grieving like a child that’s never dreamt? I shall ask this of them when death is done.

Eugenics – Making a comeback? ~ Future Man - Eugenics
We are your only decent invention! Your only certainty! We’ve feet of your entrenched and scornful history! We are not leaving, so stand still thy bias, we to more honest slaves conceive.