THIS IS =po041228.txt
I'm now using it as a catch-all updateable JOURNAL DOC
New entries are posted from the top down, newest topmost
It will hold new poems, new letters-to-th-editor, and new purav quips --
OK, here -tis
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NEW ENTRIES FOR 11 JAN '05 -- ROSH HODESH SHVAT -- 

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On a cold morning
I stop by the Guests' Breakfast Buffet
to maybe buy breakfast.
A young lady telephones her boss
and says, 'It's ok -- 
you can take a cup of tea.'

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And Yael once said
at Modi'in
'I don't want any part of that particular scam.'

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A few days before New Year
I darned near fell of the Feldis chairlift
because I saw no warning sign
saying 'Close the Safety Bar^.
Two weeks later
there's no such no sign.
The Swiss operator says
'It takes time.'

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One day at Camp
imagining myself a sluggish old man
I stole 2 plums from the pantry
which held hundreds.
Agnieska said,
"Steve, what are you doing?"

Notes:  "Ah, but I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now."
(Bob Dylan, then in his 20s)

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How to maybe Sail:

If you can trim the sail
maybe then sometimes you can let it luff. 

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Roehrs knows irony -- 
He says
'Take this.  It's not true
but for you
it points toward truth now.'

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This is a good Swiss Hotel.
Everything is in order.
Maybe the guests don't come back
but that don't much matter -- 
everything is in order.

Notes:

"Im mancher man wusste wer manchem man war
gibt manchem man mancher mann mancher mehr Ehr."
                          (Goethe, or one of those turkeys)

(Translation:
If any man knew just who Everyman were
might then someone give somebody little bit air. )

(Title):
:The Poet, being fond of vistas, and having been the hotel's sole roomer for nigh on t' a fortnight, intends to dirnk his own USA Beer with a rather light supper (buttered garlic bread with salt), and is thereupon invited upon behalf of the Owner, a certifiable graduatae of the Henry Pinchpenny School of Hotel Management, to do so in his own quarters, wherein, as Mark Twain remarked in Innocents Abroad, "there was not room enought to swing a cat".




An aguna need not stay chained to an unusually comatose or deranged husband, because contracts, including marriage contracts, hold only between competent adults.  
(Sent letters@jpost.com 11 Jan '05 via SwisscomBox)

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But now now
can a bloody cow pray
and he too really
little better
said Lucifer.

:On the paradox of incarnation

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I wath a Siwss laborer and think, this guy drives a SUV.
But oo, Switzerland seems like a Theme Park, with those tasefully grotesue brown sk-chalets.  But as much for demestic as foreign idle rich.

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Ethics is only in the limiting case a choice of good vs. eveil.
Ethics is often ambiguous, a mitzvaat the cost of a 'lesser evil'.  
Eg, may <i not cheat my landlord of a prior obligation for a little while, in order to do free funds to do what I can to try to safeguard my sister?  Especially is such is my prior vow.  I must, yes?

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NEW ENTRIES 10 JAN '05 -- 29 TEVET
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Reform Judaism, esp. in Israel, has betrayed its task -- creative dvrie toras and critically innovative halacha -- 
orthodox exegesis remains in the legalistic literalism of the Dark Ages 
-- for a fashionalbe opportunism -- liturgic, stylistic, social , political.
Reform politics in Israel is merely 'me-too' -- we too want to do marriages -- the orthodox establishement, few of whose members serve for gelt perks or glory -- justifiably laughts it off 
(and Shlomo said, the goyim are lnging to hear something real from us, but all we give them is shlock sentimentality -- Fiddler on the Roof, the Shoah -- as an unneededed appeasement.

Liberal jewish politics in Israel and the USA is an unasked for and unneeded appeasement of the imagined and largely imaginary establishement of the USA -- whose politics are appeasement of the Arab petro-bloc -- the USA disdains the ragheads, and would rather not sell out Isreal (in  a 'piece process' -- ) to appeas them, but when Sharon puts of Gaza in a garage sale, the USA has to pretend, as Sharon does, that it said so first -- 

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Swiss Restauranterus are descendents of members of the Guild of Stagecoach Robhbers who were expelled for unethical behavior.

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It's all reversed -- the clean sex on insomniacs TV is the plebian porno ads; the dirty sex is the yuppie fantasies of sexual materialism, violence against women, degradation of men by mad Bachantes in cunnilingus, depicted in a way that degrades women too -- "the posture is simply ridiculous" -- homo chic, with all its black leather-clad imitation studs -- 
Normal Porno, something for the Guest-Worker, is normal albeit vicarious sex; only for proles; the management class has foresworn procreation to gain a bit more power, from which they have alienated themselves -- 

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Reform Judaims, especially in Israel

Tzdaka means you give to tomsone whose merit (z'hut) exceeds their unmet financial needs more than yours does.

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5 AM -- Swiss or German TV--- Christine Aquilleru, 'Stripped in London' 
-- She seems Negro, not Hispanic -- in the traditional of Black Gospel Singeers -- a sort of older sister preaching self-confidence to adolescent girls, especially the off-white ones, intimidated by their emerging sexuality -- and earth-skinned in a honky Megopolis -- 

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after advising AG to avoid it, I see The Matrix on insomniacs TV, albeit mute -- it seems a much cruder metaphor for the )psychedelic) Quest -- Hesse's 'Journey to the East' -- Everyman, the Jungian substratum that Frye was talking about with his comparative spiritual symbolism -- The Matrix, already technologically obsolete, works crudely through metaphors of computer design, and even -- how gauche -- of physucal combat, however stylized by balletic 'martial arts' -- in a curdely externalized analogue of the personal, intense, spirititual/psychic Quest -- 

Everyone knows, computer software architecture is a crude analogue of spiritual/psychic architecture -- eg, the *expanded memory" of my 286 is an analogue of the 'higher self' of which PVK speaks -- 

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One would like to bring intellectual honesty and clarity of thought, or at least clarity of expression, to bear on political and social affairs -- 
(this is an application of Chochma, which is PVK's 'Light of Pure Intelligence') -- the IHR is often good for this.  TIME (magazine -- I ain't Heraklitus here -- ) is a captive whore who sometimes betrays her jailers by smuggling out bits of espied truth "betweem the lines" -- 
(And again, Dave McReynolds said of the New York Times (1960s), "You have to read between the lines, but at least there are lines to read between."

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and so we bear our merely personal crosses -- illness, age or poverty -- as unwanted accessories of the distracting fashion of incarnation -- 

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and unto "we happy few"
will never cease
mosquitos
Yup, mosquitos.
(*If you want to be immunde, eat a hundred" (Heard at the Colorado Ute Sun-dance, ca. 1968)
Eg, a horshoe nail was carelessly placed -- 

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The Swiss are impeccably if prefunctorily polite, but dont't even offer an apology for sitting down at an adjacent table and, as if this was "Home Free", taking out their synthetic cigarette stash and smoking as much as they can in the available time.

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Switzerland's infrastructure is so highly developed that the next step could only be to turn the entire nationa into a giant Swiss Watch.

(9 Jan '05, after riding through an unimagined Mulin--Trin Mulin tunnel)

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Something Interesting from Swiss News:  [To my Translator -- This didn't count]:

One [?lunch-?] line of 55 characters is worth three or four Swiss Francs 
[1 Cappuncino I.O.U. now]
"depending on the degree of difficulty"
and if they stay in line
maybe it is raining
[is a stale Linzertorte too OK?]
Oh hell let's just go sell herringĻin the rain
"and if it is urgent 50% more"
I don't care do you?

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She said, I'm silly -- 
I trust you with my body
but not with my money.

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Saturday morning, after getting off the train, walking steeply uphill far from any castle walls, and buying two cartons of orange juice to put in my backpack, it occurred to me that, I suppose, I should not longer present myself to the eclectics as a representative of orthodox Judaism, to which position I have rather profitably -- well, I came within a few thou a year of breaking even -- pretended for a decade and a half at Zenith.

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On Shabat, You cannot kindle a fire, but can you add to it?
One must -- in winter in northern Europe, and also in winter in the highlands of the land of Israel -- Samaria, Jerusalem, Hebron, where there is often freezing rain, and most live in stone houses.
But it is not eay to bank a fire so that it lasts all night -- much less 26 hours.
So what if it goes out in winter - in Jerusalem, in a stone house with little inside plaster to keep off the cold damp from days-long freezing rain -- with infants, elderly, and the infirm -- much less in Germany, Poland, or Russia, where winter days may be far belong freezing -- can you then rekindle the fire on Shabat -- if there is no Shabos goy available to rekindle it in time -- "How can you not" (to use a phrase from RSC, without presupposing that he would approve its use in this context) -- 

AG says -- the women can rekindle it -- 

Well, arguably so -- 
This is a time-bound commandment -- although it is bound to an entire day, not to just a period of hours (eg, women are exempt from davening Shaharit, since the brats might be squalling all morning -- or perhaps I should rephrase that) -- 
A woman is free from time-bound commandments so that she can nurture her children -- and also all who depend upon her (as_it_is_said in Eyshet Chayil) -- so that includes the grandparents and the infirm -- so how can she not rekindle the fire when their lives depend upon it -- or at least their health -- 
-- And if there is no woman in the house, so the man must do the women tasks -- as_it_is_said, if there is no woman of the house to kindle the Shabat candles, the man must kindle them -- and elsewhere I suggest, what they kindle erev Shabat is only secondarily candles, primarily it is a fire -- that's what you really need, you can eat hot soup in the dark, better than eating cholent icecream by candlelight -- 

Thus for Pekude Nefesh as enabling exemption -- 

But maqy not a single healthy adult male do so for himself -- lest he become ill, eating cold food in a freezing wet house -- and then, Cows Defend Us, be unable to complete the Modi'in minyan -- 

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Re:  JP Int 17 Dec '04 (Radoskowicz, on Agunot;)

Obviously a woman cannot be obligated to remain married to an abnormally insane nor comatose husband, since contracts, including marriage contracts, can be made and remain valid only between competent adults.

:Swiss Cheese Posek

(not yet sent to JP)

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NEW ENTRIES 7 JAN '05 -- 26 TEVET 

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With apologies to dogs:

"Eachy-Peachy, Freederich Nietzche"
        (Carl Shrager, 1960's)

"Homo homo ludens"
        (Roman saying, applicable primarily to Romans)

'Beyond Good and Evil'?
Just dogs stars & the devil.

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In the Old Town of Chur
at a street cafe
named the Street Cafe
where you may sometimes see yuppies
through the smoke
a greybeard
enters to pee
as he must do too often now 
and is intercepted by a skinny bargirl
who says
our pisspots are for naught but tosspots.

Notes:

"The lowest thing in the world anyone can do is to deny someone a toilet."
             (Breindel Swirsky, Holocaust documenter, Mevo Modi'in)

:The Poet Pissed Off

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From the Israel Ministry of Foreign Relations:

"A 'Gevalt!' may be defined as:
'That which is about to explode
 which we must find a way to let explode
 to our advantage.'"

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And PVK said
'I prefer a Movement without order
 to an Order without movement.'

(Heard from AG, Jan '05, and also? Abode 1970's)

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Religion 1A:

"They come to Thighland to Bangcock 
 so the Boss chose to raise a great wave
 to strike them down.
 I am a Christian."

Notes:

Cf. "Ki L_Olam Chesod_o" (Hallel Psalm)

"Bis m_'' ErRachman, ErRachhim "

Midrash on Moshe Rabbenu:  "May YOUR Compassion always prevail over YOUR Din."

We are to emulate the Divine Attribute of Chesed, but forbidden to emulate the Divine Attribute of Din.

Cf. also Rabbinic explication of (Shemot, V_Yira:  "But by MY  NAME  '' was I knot known " -- The Tetragrammaton interepreted as Chesed.


Travel notes -- Move to =hino.txt , and dump in the Coal Car:  CAVEAT TABBYCAT.

The official Zurich cit Guide advertises seveal apparently very high-class whorehice -- "If you hae to ask the price, you probably can't afford it."
The Blick, Switzerland's (only) national tabloid, advertises -- in the Sport Section, of course -- Plebian Relief (McDonalds Pops) with throwaway girls for SF 120 -- about a hundred dollars -- for half an hour.

It seems that in Switzerland valleys are around 3j00--800 m., the low alps (ie, the low mountain pastures) about 1500 m., and the basic level of peaks about 2000 m. -- few peaks are higher than that, those that are are exceptional -- undeveloped, used only for high-ski-ing, and a challenge to mountaineers.

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Notes on the Moetza Hevel Modi'in move to seize personal property from homes that have not paid Arnona (local tax, assessed on one's home):

As Unanumo pointed out in 'Tragic Sense of Life', in inequitably enforced law loses ethical legitimacy.

It is unethical to seize personal property in lieu of an unpaid monetary debt, since the non-monetary value to the owner of personal property -- eg, one's kids -- in intellectual, emotional, spiritual and even religious dimensions -- 
often greatly exceeds its monetary value to the public.  Hence seizure of personal property is more akin to blackmail, eg kidnapping, than to the taking of voluntarily and freely pledged collateral.
This particular applies when the debtor is unable to pay the debt without becoming unable to meet expenses that are personally more urgent.
In a civil situation, the debtor can then claim bankruptcy and so secure protection against seizure of personal property, and against being coereced to pay a debt that would if paid disrupt his personal economy.

A community government which collaborates in the seizure of the personal property of its members, rather than defending its memebers against those who would, regardless of justification, take their personal property, has betrayed its responsibility as the representative to over-riding authority of that community.
Those who do so lose a portion of their place in the world_to_come, and hence a corresponding portion of their place in this world.

Many classes of personal property must be exempt from seizure.  Those include property essential to the debtor's survival ("thou shalt return his cloak at night, else what shall he sleep in"^) and to his livelihood (eg the telephone on which Shoshana receives pizza orders must be kept open to incoming calls.)
It particularly includes personal computers, since the resale value of a used computer is almost nil, while the value of the data stored on it to its owner may be very great -- that applies especially to non-monetary value, but also to personal monetary value, since in general that is not tranferrable.

Once more:  the Moetza, and secondarily the Vaad, have been negligent in not doing all possible to ensure that a pedestrian walk with push-button stop light is installed in front of the Moshav (with a similar electronic stop-light for those who must cross one side of the road to turn into the Moshav on automobile.
I had intended to withhold Arnona until that was done, as I do not want it on my conscience, if someone is killed crossing into the Moshav (Heaven forfend)a, that I had not done whatever was in my power to attempt to minimize that risk.
And a secondary point:  there are several broken septic tank pipes that the Moetza should replace, as a health hazard.  One of same is the outtake pipe from my septic tank.  The cess then fills the tank until it seeps out, and/or leaches out into the earth.  Both of which are a health hazard.

Arnona paid to and embezzeled by the previous Moetza should be credited to the accounts of those who paid it, since but for Moetza negligence those funds would now be on hand and would minimize present tax assessments.



Sent IHT 3 Jan:

The USA should fund the tsunami disaster relief, and finance the Iraq occupation from voluntary contributions.

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Sent IHT 3 Jan:

Why did the USA, with all its spy sattelites  and seismic sensors, not warn Thailand and Sri Lanka of the tsunami?

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Not since King Louis XVI has a ruler so plundered the wealth of the poor and the middle class to engorge the rich.

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Judy said
I got a nice check from my mother
So I pay the bills
get the kids wsarm clothing
fix the stove
and then it's "Shalom al Israel".

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Switzerland is too poor to afford beggars, or even pushke's.  So there is no one through whom to be redeemed by giving tzadaka, and on's "spare change" accumulates like bad karma.

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(Roman style:)

Bearing their bodies they take when they may such pleasure at they can.

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As dark descends
I eat and go to bed
then reise to work in the time of the Wolf
walk under the stars
and wach daybreak.

She works pat midnight
and rises after the time of kings.

If we ever live together
we can sleep in the same bed
without touching.

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The Uglybus

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I watch a circus on TV.  HOw much cruelty is depicted.  To animals of course -- they take pride in breaking those free spirits -- but also to man.  And how cruelly the ringmaster panders to the paying customers, with double-edged or two-faced flattery, the servant's revenge.
So Emmet Kelly was a great man, for took the lowest of clowns, the hobo -- as the French 'white clowns' are its aristocracy, as someone pointed out -- and made him a figure of sympathy.

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The Zuirch 'Youth Hostel' has private rooms with less charm than the better class of jail cell, outrageouly priced at SF 79
www.youthhostel.zurich
Tiolets/shower on the floor (collectively termed in the USA, 'the bathroom', in the USA toilet means only pooper (hence, urinals as distinguished from arsenals), though the term toillette, French, from netoyer, merely means to 'freshen up'); standard price for that setup is about SF 55.  No soap nor shampoo, towel on request.  Functional minimalism with a vengeance.  In Israel a larger room with bath is abour 40 dollars (with nominally priced membership) and that was in the days, ca. 1999, when the dollar had value.
"This is becoming one of Europe's most modern city hostels -- comfortable, youthful, open-minded ((whatever 'open-minded' is code for -- it used to mean, you can get it even if she doesn't wear a wedding ring )) -- "a quiet location, near downtown" -- well, I walked it in about 45 minutes, working up quite a good sweat to do so .
An Internet withtou drives is available for SF 12 an hour, that's about the going rate.  A mediocre breakfast -- barely the dog's share of what's served in Israel -- is available from 6 AM, which is about 2 hours earlier than most hotels , to 10 AM, at which point it appears that Guests are locked out, but I coudl be wrong on that.

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Maybe we trashed Iraq, Afghanistan, and most of the SouthEast Asian peninsula -- oh, and the Wolf's Share of the Oysgone Layer -- but we don't smoke in restaurants.  And we offer bread and water as soon as guests sit down -- rather than shaming them into paying 4 dollars for 200 milliliters of bottled gassified tap water.

:Moral Equivalency

NEW ENTRIES 2 JAN '05 -- 20? Tevet 

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Bright sun on the snow.
On the last day of the year
donkeys are eating the Christmas tree.

    Feldis, 31 Dec '04  (after Basho)

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In petrol automibniles they drive to the mountains to go up and come down as fast as possible.  They could do as much on a cizeround astroturn inclined swivel (if not swiveable) treadmill.

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It is too eay to blame and almost condemn the Germans for acquiescence and collaboration int the Nazi regime.  Most of us habitually acquiesce and collaborate in lesser evils, eg paying U.S. income tax.
Resistance and opposition may be seen as heroic, exceptional by definition.  Moost of us, especially as we grow older, so much long to live in a personal mini-world of peace, "within (or: 'amidst') an ugly world of ugly people" (PVK).
And all that can be shattered by a single act of standing up for what is right against the currently prevailing authoritz. 

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She seems to me to be the moon
or mayxbe a morning star.
Why now should I fly away.

(Feldis, 31 Dec '04)

:The Poet contemplates extending his stay

"but to see Leila you must have the eyes of Majun" (PVK, after HIK)

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From Switzerland it is hard not to see the USA, ("under" Bush the Junior devil) from a European perspective, as gross & uncivilized.

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"No hablo pszchobabble" -- It is out-of-order, insofar as it pretends to ontic primacy.
I don't say that Kant had nthe last word -- that there is no sense to speaking of ("noumena") ontic primacy -- I reckon one must deal with siuations as they arise (from the "sea" (PVK, HIK) of potentialities).
In some situations the pschologic dimension may merit priorit (to placate one's wife, as a hasidic joke has it -- I think cited in Jewish Treasury of Folklore).
In other situations, it may be the dimension of truth, or the physical dimension that merits priority.  (One does not coutner an opponent ina phillosophic debate or a fencing match -- or a (USA) football game --  by saying eg 'your unchecked aggressiveness is hurting my feelings' -- 
Imagine that in a football game -- the New Yorker cartoons (for New York Jews of course, "not for the little old lady from Dubuque ((Indiana, if I recall))
capture the whimsical pathos oa an impoverished Jewish gentle-man trying to make his way as "a stranger in" -- and forever estranged from "a strange (affluent, powerful) (gentile) land".

Mira Todi Hotel/Restaurante, Feldis, 31 Dec -- 18? Tevet
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I dso not speak much German
because I am mad at Germans.
I stay in a Swiss-Italian Pension
whose new Managers
are bastards.
So I have gone for 2 weeks to a German canton
and now German
seems to me rather a nice language.

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If you have to tell your rank, most likely you don't merit it.

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I think I've found your coffee shop Sam Jonson ---- 

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In Feldris everyone says hello.
Above Feldris at 2000 meters
they sell hot soup
minestrone
very welcome
for 5 Swiss Francs
very fair
but they won't take Euros.

(Mutta, Shabat/Saturday, 1 Jan '05)

: "We'll have to go around Cape Horn, they won't take a check."
   (New Yorker cartoon, 1950's)

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The Poet goes hiking, peruses porno, and intends to meditate:  His Apologia::

inside space
outside space
whatever gets you off
your ass
said Baalak.

(after Henry Miller, if memory serves)

Notes:

"meditation is the greatest luxury this world affords."  (PVK)

"'Lady of Spain I adore you.'  Lie down and let me expore you."
     (Heard from Barry Seidman, Belmont Junior High School, ca. 1955) 

(after Henry Miller, if memory serves)

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& Shlomo said
It is better to eat on Shabat morning
and then daven
than to daven
but think continually of eating.

(Mutta-Feldris sled-path, Saturday afternoon, 1 Jan '05)
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Now I stay in a respectable hotel
with chaste TV
I "sleep like a horse" and wake past midnight, but see
no third-world involuntary floozies enticing anyone to simulated intercourse
but only, on Swiss Number 1 
a drama of damsels who offer intimated copulation
and achieve Amercan abolution
by being sliced diced or crudely carved into steak tartare.

((There is something to be said for Editting))

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The Swiss VIRTUE is orderliness, its associated VICE (Aristotle) is an officious picky meticulousness, and its associated SKILL is precision.  Swiss watches and assorted gadgets.

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Reply to a largely imaginary critic:  
I can speak for myself.  Can you?

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The all-glass, lst-class PanormaWagon
climbs Oberalp Pass
as its package-tour passengers sit in the small-windowed Gourmet Restorante car
eating their free dinner.

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On the Arnona flap:

As Unanumo pointed out (Tragic Sense of Life), an inequitably enforeced law has no ethical legitimacy.

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Restaurantes should make no-smoking the Default.  That is, the main dining area should be smoke-free.  They may provide a somoking room, with a sperate entrance, withou an adjacent buffet serving coffe, liquor, cigars, etc.
The right ot life nad health takes precedence over ohter reights, even freedom.
The right to indulge one's appetites is bounded by the rights of others, elese we would legalize rape.
Is there a right to indulge one's addictions?  A self-destructive addiction?  A right to suicide?  (Cf. my articles on 'The right to die'.)  To gratuitious suicide?

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=po041228, Augmented:

            Date:Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:16:08 -0800 (PST)
  
          
"Declare a Victory and Bug out"

George Bush Jr.'s Iraq strategy is a self-enclosed
Neverland fantasy that only he believes -- 

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Evidently the IHT sometimes gratuitiously if not
tendentiously edits Letters to the Editor

(Sent IHT 27 Dec '04

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Slowly-slowly
"every day in every way"? -- "yom-yom"? -- 
No, but anyhow -- 
I am still barely OK
so anyone not as good as me
is intolerable.

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"he is throwing great beams of light"
PVK, Abode 70s, on HIK

When things start going wrong
maybe your teacher is moving his office
to a higher heaven.

:And ZR said PVK said to Walia:  Tell them I'll stay around
for 3 or 4 yearas, but then they're on their own.

(Heard, sa, from ZR, Workcamp Farewell dinner, Campra, '04)

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Dinah is a granmother now
who sometimes worries
that mayge she forgets something
And she is a young woman
bathing naked in a mountain stream.

(Feldis, 28 Dec '04 -- 15 Tevet)
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Militantly cleaning my Refugio
with antiseptic chemicals
they put in its jplace
each offering of food
and throw away whatever wasn't theirs.

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"Gryshenka has a maisonette"
           TSE

"Il Centro Ski Nordico Renouvello"
      Newsmagazine, Tri Valle, Dec '04 

See FAULTY in photo with Nico
Bareheaded, improbably deep in groomed snow
hands empty
Sweeny ready to wrestle the angels of winter
and put them in their place
to pay the price

"Collagamente"
"One horse, one rabbit"
No wonder Pound went mad -- 

FAULTY drives up each day
in a fresh-washed car
polished with wax
to a gloss

In my Solarium the snow does not melt 

L.L. Bean meets The Shlump
in a hat
who only built the place

FAULTY has a new office
made of plywood
and a new van
that he never drives anywhere in -- 

Last week I placed the plastic bottles out to recyle -- 
they're still there
with sacks of ashes and cans
and all the daily papers
that he's too tidy to burn

In the window of Vanzetti's Bureau
hiding brass trophies and a copper testimonial
FAULTY places a sign
flogging his weekly piatto di gionrno
a dead horse
with frozen French-fried potatoes
and a packet of ketchup
attractively priced
at  fourteen dollars

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"In the small dark hours of the morning"
pre-dawn
the naked lady on TV
massaging an electronically veiled crotch
is sadly compassionate

At break of day
pussy's packed away.

Awakening at a reasonable time
The proper salaryman sees only
chaste images of mayhem

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"O Pious Hobo" -- An Explication:

He who ran away
from his place in 'The Wars of the LORDS'
and now lives -- 'untidily' to say the least
(let's let it go at that)
now has the chutzpah to look down
on a younger woman
bathing naked
in the dawn-touched sea of Greece.

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Old Klee & Matisse
worked at least with simples
so
I mix and match short words.

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Masturbating on TV she
wearns a small crucifix
and has on her upper leg
a healed wound.

:The Sexual Revolution Reconsidered:  'Repressive
Desublimation' (Marcuse)

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An Improper Poem
      or
An Cosmopolitan from the USA:

We learn from every people.
From the Greeks I learned
to shit without a toilet seat,
and from the Arabs
to wash my asshole afterwards.

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George likes Bush
because, I suppose,
one phony knows another.

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I glance and the mirror and see
what a preposterous disguise.

(Cf. PVK PVK -- "A mirror is the crudest of feedback
devices."

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I guess the cold's got to my bones now
or anyhow blood
Watching nightime TV
in a cold hotel room
I see I miss
even Greece.

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One who, like Bush, makes a lifestyle and builds a career o
mocking social gaffes, is a naturual born facist.

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Q is a lie =
A says Q     and
Q is not true   and
A knows that Q is not true .

'A is a liar'   =
'A often tells lies'

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Therefore a bear is defined as a being such that, when and
only when he enters the tea-tent it is raining.

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(1)  My Website is:
http://www.geocities.com/sa73122a
That Website holds my R. Shlomo Carlebach transcriptions; also some 
poems, useful links, et al. 

(2) The following Websites are especially recommended:

 http://www.benyehudastudio.com
Paintings by Yitzak ben Yehuda of Meor Modi'in

http://www.eomega.org
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York (USA), a responsible umbrulla 
organization for Wholistic Healing

With respects and best wishes to all,
Steve Amdur
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"Where tehre are no men, try ((Strive)?) to be a man."
(Pirke haAvot)

An Israeli will, if necesary, take charge of any situation, regardless of where he is and whose toes he trods on.

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Zurich like a circus whirls,
prostituting boys and girls.
The New Year is at hand, Rejoice -- 
Spend at the Whorehouse of your Choice.

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Its useful focus on Chesed set apart, Christianity is so stupid that only the Romans could have designed it.

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The Uglybus

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If the Swiss have a religion, it is is orderliness.
If the Swiss have an ethic, is is:  Thou shalt give nought for free.
The Swiss have one taboo:  Take no plastic bags.
And they count only one thing as a sin -- a sort of faux pas theat everyone notices and no-one mentions -- to be without money, even for a moment.
EG says:  The Swiss police have a 6th sense for that.  As soon as you run out of money, they drive by and say hello.

There is a tendency toward facism in Switzerland -- I can see how some turned away the Jews as the shadow of the Shoah was approaching -- but a stronger momvement of liberalism -- from the heart, I think.

"They do seem rather pious for a natino whose fortune rests on laudering dirty money."

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The Poet offers Excuses for Changing his Mind:

Take 3 steps on the way
and the voyage was made.

Trails, snow, wind, cold -- 
I know these dangers
It is the pitfalls of cities that I fear.

North of Zurich, the ground is brown
In the mountains one sinks in soft snow.

They would have made me welcome
but in whose world.

Where do they go
who cannot leave the cities.

Moon on snow, or all the stars
Green-blue light of daybreak.

I have seen the truth now.
It is an ok place to visit
-- if you say so -- 
but <I would not like to live there.

I got to the edge of the swift-flowing river and said
I would rather stay in the mountains
though I'm cold there.



Take 3 steps and your soul goes all the way there
looks around
says, 'This is not waht I want'
comes back to you at Step 4
and says, 'Let's go home now -- OK?'.


28 Dec '04, onboard the Zurich_to_Chur train, in a 2nd-class carriage.

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One who confiscates personal property to pay a debt has no place in teh world_to_come
and so he has damned little place in this one.

One who collaborates with teh ruling authorities in the fonfiscation of the property of neighbor, has no place, much less office, in the community of that neighbor.

For personal property has personal worth far in excess of the public (monetary, Fair Market Value) value, for it is imbued with intellectual, emotional, and even spiritual associations.

One who confiscates personal property of little monetary value, knowing its personal value, in order to coerce a person into paying a debt, esp. a debt he cannot afford -- is a personal_property__kidnapper , which is a sort of blackmailer.
And any law which supports him is unjust.

One who collaborates in such confiscation is an accomplice in crime, and should be counted in a minyan.
(And a minyan of thieves a fantasy, merely a conceit.)

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HOUSEOFLORDS has come out of the closet.
Somebody tell him to get back in it.

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sa, McDonald's Internet Cafe, Chur, 30 Dec '04 and I'm getting hungry.
If it never oinked, it's kosher enough for Moses.
The laws of kashrut are frozen in the snow.
Shanti. Chantilly. Shiksabob.

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