شاعره جرالدین مور- نوشتهٔ تونی کیِد

جرالدین در گوشه‌ای ایستاد تا جورابش را بالا بکشد. کِش‌هائی را که به جورابش بسته بود تا آنها را نگه دارند باعث خراش پاهایش میشدند. کتابهایش را زمین گذاشت تا خوب پاهایش را بخاراند. موقعی که جوراب پای چپش را بالا می‌کشید، دو انگشتش داخل قسمت فوقانی آن شدند. در حالیکه کتابهایش را بر میداشت و بر خلاف جهت همه در پیاده رو میرفت با خودش زمزمه کرد: “سگ احمق. اول لباس ورزشی را جوید و باعث شد که به دردسر بیافتم، و اکنون این جورابها.”

Somebody Blew Up America by Amiri Baraka

Somebody Blew Up America by Amiri Baraka

They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn't our American terrorists It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn't Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring

Water Scare

There is a drought in California and almost all Californians know it by now. We have to expect more of such natural phenomena in coming years as global warning, which has been repeatedly hollered since late 1970s, is still ignored by policy makers as a scientific hoax. The problem with lack of attention to and acknowledgement of human-caused tragedies is that, the same catastrophes are bound to be repeated and even exasperated. The positive aspect of paying attention to warnings and acknowledging the cause of a cataclysm is preventive measures that the government could take, or at least it could ease the complexities. Although generally speaking, governments have been in the pocket of the big business who only considers present benefits and ignores future damages as a result of their environmental destruction. For example, if governments (city, state, federal) paid more attention to scientists’ forewarning of global warming, they would have thought of a method to increase the amount of water without relying merely on annual rainfall, and/or would have increased water storage in the years when there was excess water. In fact, some municipalities were more thoughtful and they had adopted a water conservation policy as an ongoing remedy in order to expand their water storage. Educating the public in water conservation would be another tactic. However, as it always happens, resolutions to solve a problem are mandated when the catastrophe has already occurred, and as it is the recurring instance, it falls on the public to foot the bill.