05.18.05 - 1:42 pm

oh why not. here are some more goodies to get you thinking.

this is a quote from HEART OF DARKNESS. most of you will probably only recognize its film version, APOCALYPSE NOW.

"no, i dont like work. i had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. i dont like to work-no man does-but i like what is in the work-a chance to find yourself. your own reality-for yourself, not for others-what no other man can ever know. they can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means."

when i was a freshman, we had this project to find poems. put them in a book. do some drawings. turn it in. so, these are some of the poems from that collection:

THE CHARGE AT PORT HUDSON
author unknown

"niggers wont fight" ah ha!
"niggers wont fight" ah ha!
"they are no good for war,
one in a hundred.
"let mississippi's shore,
flooded with negro gore,
echo back evermore:
see our six hundred"
firm as the granite rock,
full to the cannons shock,
with a faith none dare mock,
earths ties all sundered;
every man firm in his place
staring death in the face,
battling for home and race
marched our six hundred.
crash falls the iron hail,
making the stoutest pale,
all but the bravest fall,
old veterans wondred.
fighting with purpose high,
fighting until they die,
bravely for liberty,
fell that six hundred.
villains that shun the light,
traitors who hate the right,
cowards who dare not fight,
own that ye blundered.
spurning the name of slave,
bravest amid the brave,
each fills a soldiers grave,
noble six hundred.

GODS WHEEL
shel silverstein

god says to me witha kind of smile,
"hey, how would you like to be god awhile
and steer the world?"
"okay," says i, "ill give it a try.
where do i sit?
how much do i get?
what time is lunch?
when can i quit?
"gimme back that wheel," says god.
"i dont think youre quite ready yet."

SNIPERS REGRET
patrick johannesen usmc

i wonder in the night time
i wonder who will hear
i wonder if they know...
how close, i am near.

do they have a family?
do i give a fuck?
they will only live...
if they fucking duck.

the first one did not duck
the other looks my way.
i crank another round home
and send him on his way.

its baggage and i know it.
man, it really sucks.
if only id not been there and...
if only they had ducked.