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The
Starpoet
Newsletter
Vol. VIII, No. XXV
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The ice plant is ill named
Surving just fine
In the dry summer heat
Love
Does not speak strongly enough
To tell the world
What I feel for you
Winter or Summer
Or dark new moon
I would be by your side
Until the stars crash to earth
And I grow silent
Know this
That I love you
That I love you
Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2007 C. E.
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Copyright © Lisa Jain Thompson 1995-2007. Further distribution of this newsletter in its entirety is authorized. Email your letters and postcards or visit her contact page at the Starpoet website.
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Post-pride recovery week. You can read about our day here.
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Starpoet and the modern age
The Poet at the Controls
These words are printed
On recycled electrons
Blown from the first nano
Of recorded spacetime.
I have borrowed them
To lay ink on my page,
Light patterns on your screen,
And must eventually return them
To the great reconstruction
That is our fate and destiny,
To the great reconstruction
That is our fate and destiny,
No hugging, no moral certainty,
No ending.
Thus I write from the bright heart
Of this matterbound universe.
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
June 2007
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ruminations
LJ Among the Ruins
What if Jesus were among us,
Hanging with Gautama and Mohammed,
Looking to hook up with Bob Dylan and Moses,
Looking to hook up with Bob Dylan and Moses,
Do you think he would be able
To cure Stephen Hawking,
Bring Einstein back to life and maybe Buddy Holly?
I know what you are going to say,
That will be the day, but hey,
How do you know until you ask?
Maybe today's the day
How do you know until you ask?
Maybe today's the day
He changes water into wine,
Cures AIDS, does away with hunger,
And makes the world safe for all humankind.
He's God, afterall,
So what's to keep him from doing good works?
(Unless, of course, the Prime Directive
Pevents him from interferring
With any less developed species.)
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
June 2007
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Going through life making decisions
based soley on fear of the outcome
based soley on fear of the outcome
is not truly living.
-- Steve Santagati
The Manual
The Manual
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The world received proof yesterday that prison does indeed work.
In an interview from the Los Angeles jail
where she is serving a sentence for driving while banned,
celebrity inmate Paris Hilton
claimed a remarkable transformation in her character.
She said she was no longer superficial,
had found God,
wanted to work with sick children
and had not looked in a mirror since entering prison.
In an interview from the Los Angeles jail
where she is serving a sentence for driving while banned,
celebrity inmate Paris Hilton
claimed a remarkable transformation in her character.
She said she was no longer superficial,
had found God,
wanted to work with sick children
and had not looked in a mirror since entering prison.
-- Dan Glaister
The Guardian
The Guardian
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persisting memories
In the Shade
There are faces I remember
That resemble those of us
Who are still alive:
Who are still alive:
Gestures that connect to memories,
That bring back so many loved ones
That bring back so many loved ones
Who have long since died,
Vanished friends, and even enemies,
Lost to war, old age, and accident;
Christmas and all those holidays
At Grandma’s with the family,
Ravioli’s and cardoon,
At Grandma’s with the family,
Ravioli’s and cardoon,
And homemade lemon meringue.
Then the familiar face passes,
Down the escalator while I up enter
Down the escalator while I up enter
The bright sunshine of the moment.
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
June 2007
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The British tried to stabilize Iraq with 125,00 troops
when it was a British Mandate from 1920-1932
and the population was 5 million.
The United States has 150,000 troops there
(some would not be classified as troops, just support services)
and the country has 25 million people.
when it was a British Mandate from 1920-1932
and the population was 5 million.
The United States has 150,000 troops there
(some would not be classified as troops, just support services)
and the country has 25 million people.
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Tony Lives
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everyone else is, why not?
Made in America
"It's like America...
I mean this is still where people come to make it.
It's a beautiful idea..."
I mean this is still where people come to make it.
It's a beautiful idea..."
If there is any purpose in life,
The family is at its center,
An intrinsic core attribute
The family is at its center,
An intrinsic core attribute
Of life's sucess or failure.
If the family collapses,
Self-destructs before the children
Are grown and self-supporting,
All that remains are the ruins
Of what might have been but not.
If the family collapses,
Self-destructs before the children
Are grown and self-supporting,
All that remains are the ruins
Of what might have been but not.
By any rational definition of success,
Tony Soprano has made it:
Keeping his family intact,
Raising his children to adulthood
Without their ending up in jail
Or overdosing on drugs.
No more can be demanded from any parent
Than to provide your children the means
To carry on with life after you've gone.
Tony Soprano has made it:
Keeping his family intact,
Raising his children to adulthood
Without their ending up in jail
Or overdosing on drugs.
No more can be demanded from any parent
Than to provide your children the means
To carry on with life after you've gone.
"Meadow runs inside to join her family,
just in time for dinner."
just in time for dinner."
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
June 2007
It's All Right, Ma
Tony Soprano,
Fade to black,
Fade to black,
Actually a jump cut
With no known destination;
All the marbles in the air,
All sides against the other,
Everywhere you turn
Everywhere you turn
Someone wants a piece of you.
Aces and eights,
Five card draw,
Five card draw,
Everyone everywhere
Bets against your cards,
Winner take all.
Family is everything.
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
The Finale Seen from The Parallax
Life does not run
In thirteen week segments
With all the loose ends tied
Before the next episode begins.
With all the loose ends tied
Before the next episode begins.
What problems there were
When you got up this morning
Are most likely still there
When you got up this morning
Are most likely still there
When you get back into bed.
Your children are aways your children,
Your enemies hardly ever your friends,
Anyone who thinks they have answers
Most likely does not understand.
Anyone who thinks they have answers
Most likely does not understand.
Life is not all nice and tidy,
Resolution so seldom occurs,
Conclusions so rarely hold permanent,
Conclusions so rarely hold permanent,
Closure comes only after your gone.
Turn the light back on, look around,
Something may be close and gaining;
Something may be close and gaining;
Finish your dinner, get on with it,
You never know who's coming in the door.
You never know who's coming in the door.
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
June 2007
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Aoccrding to reserach at Crmbaidge Univsreity,
it dosen't mtater in waht oredr the letters in a wrod are.
The olny ipmortant tihng
is taht the frist and lsat lteter be in the rihgt palce.
The rset can be a tatol mses
and you can sitll raed it wuthoit prlboem.
Tihs is bscauee the huamn mnid deos not
raed erevy letter by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
it dosen't mtater in waht oredr the letters in a wrod are.
The olny ipmortant tihng
is taht the frist and lsat lteter be in the rihgt palce.
The rset can be a tatol mses
and you can sitll raed it wuthoit prlboem.
Tihs is bscauee the huamn mnid deos not
raed erevy letter by iteslf, but the wrod as a wohle.
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terms I understand
Familia
No matter what,
I will stick to you
like Carmella,
like Carmella,
A Sicilian thing,
A woman thing,
Until machine guns
Tear us apart,
Or some mad Rasputin
Blows us away.
Blows us away.
Until the ultimate laydown
Takes this world from us,
Takes this world from us,
I am yours.
Get use to it.
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
(from Sicily via the Faraci's and Galliardi's)
June 2007
(from Sicily via the Faraci's and Galliardi's)
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Pride festivals are the perfect marriage,
wedding capitalistic intentions and queer dollars into a single political entity
that is slowly changing U. S. politics.
Everyone wants our money; the gay community needs to spend it.
The best way to accomplish that is equality.
wedding capitalistic intentions and queer dollars into a single political entity
that is slowly changing U. S. politics.
Everyone wants our money; the gay community needs to spend it.
The best way to accomplish that is equality.
This is the reason major corporations support us.
Money talks and homophobia walks.
LJT
June 2007
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more persistance.
The Summer I was Nine or Ten
My father was watching when I lost control
Of my 20 inch bike (without the training wheels)
And ran into the pole (or perhaps it was a tree),
Sending me heels over head onto the sidewalk.
Of my 20 inch bike (without the training wheels)
And ran into the pole (or perhaps it was a tree),
Sending me heels over head onto the sidewalk.
I’d like to say I got right back up,
But I didn’t ride that bike again for a couple weeks,
But I didn’t ride that bike again for a couple weeks,
Much to my father’s consternation
And my brother’s tease-filled amusement.
And my brother’s tease-filled amusement.
Lisa Jain Thompson
June 2007
June 2007
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PEACE
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