Poetry by Lawrence R. Spencer. Poetic nonsense by Lawrence R. Spencer and others. Haiku poems by Lawrence R. Spencer.
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Drawing from 1946, titled “Eye”, by the Dutch artist, Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972). M.C. Escher is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.
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“MURDER! RAPE! BLOOD! WAR!
delivered daily to your door!
DEATH and MAYHEM! FILM AT 4:00!“
The News will keep you well informed!
Good news is never fit to print;
Bad News Headlines make a mint!
The Press make sure you’ll get upset
each time you watch your TV set.
“IT ISN’T SAFE TO WALK THE STREETS“
“STAY AT HOME BENEATH YOUR SHEETS!”
“CRIMINALS LURK ANYWHERE YOU LOOK!”
It must be true…. it was printed in a book!
“WE NEED MORE GUNS AND THOUGHT POLICE“.
“THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE AT PEACE“.
“DRUGS AND CRIME ARE EVERYWHERE“.
The Press makes sure that we’re “aware”….
Shocking love-life exposes!
Who will they prosecute today?
“THE PUBLIC HAS THE RIGHT TO TRUTH”.
The Press will judge and execute!
Is Free Speech an equal right?
Only for those with financial might
to pay the advertising fees.
The Press is told who to appease.
Lies and rumors, the “news” abounds –
they’ll make it up when there’s none around.
“The truth be damned! I’m a reporter…
It’s my job to cause disorder”!
Like l0bsters in a bubbling pot
who claw and pull to reach the top –
free from miserable despair,
The Press is boiling you in fear!
Every day we all begin
a bright new hopeful day.
Life’s a game we all can win.
It’s lots of fun to play.
Wake up! Don’ get sucked in!
Reporters wearing pearly grins
tell you that life’s all bad;
The Press are all completely mad!
Turn off your TV! Enjoy your day.
In spite of what “the experts” say,
there is no need to be afraid.
Live and Love another day!
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A poem by Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013
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Enjoy some of the very best jazz music of the past century. Shadows and Light – with Joni Mitchell – electric guitar, vocals, Pat Metheny – lead guitar, Michael Brecker – saxophone and Lyle Mays – keyboards, The Persuasions – vocal backup. Recorded at the Santa Barbara County Bowl in September 1979 on the Mingus tour. Video includes classic “camp” clips from James Dean films, and other vintage footage.
Shadows and Light — lyrics by Joni Mitchell
Every picture has its shadows
And it has some source of light
Blindness blindness and sight
The perils of benefactors
The blessings of parasites
Blindness blindness and sight
Threatened by all things
Devil of cruelty
Drawn to all things
Devil of delight
Mythical devil of the ever-present laws
Governing blindness blindness and sight
Suntans in reservation dining rooms
Pale miners in their lantern rays
Night night and day
Hostage smile on presidents
Freedom scribbled in the subway
It’s like night night and day
Threatened by all things
God of cruelty
Drawn to all things
God of delight
Mythical god of the everlasting laws
Governing day day and night
Critics of all expression
Judges in black and white
Saying it’s wrong saying it’s right
Compelled by prescribed standards
Or some ideals we fight
For wrong wrong and right
Threatened by all things
Man of cruelty-mark of Cain
Drawn to all things
Man of delight-born again born again
Man of the laws the ever-broken laws
Governing wrong wrong and right
Governing wrong wrong and right
Wrong and right
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