Before I fade away for the evening

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on June 12, 2005 - 3:24pm.
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I saw the Puerto Rican Day Parade today. It's sort of become the Latino Day Parade.

I like the parade. I like the Columbus Day Parade too, and St. Patrick's Day one as well.

No, I'm not angling for a Martin Luther King Day parade. I'm just noticing a touch of cultural nationalism seems, I dunno...normal.

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Submitted by James R MacLean on June 13, 2005 - 3:07am.

I think part of it is an opportunity to claim ownership of culture. Part of me would love to be part of a big club that puts on Shakespeare plays in public spaces. My wife actually is a professional employee of such a club (hers sings). My wife and I do not sing, but the members of the organization do, and they work hard to get into the "club." These people are prodigiously talented, and yet they are obligated to pay a hell of a lot of money in order to supplement grants and ticket sales.

I know, it's pretty scandalous to realize those incredibly gifted performers on stage singing Brahms' Requiem are paying for the privilege of doing so.

Submitted by pope on June 14, 2005 - 5:00am.

                           life as a skool of war.

   is very hard for the simliciy minded, cos soldiers nerver made  it. Dreams of youth never mind with the truth . as bats are blind . liberty need an eye glass . the, global village we use to know has turn out to be a land of hell . Viewing animals in human cloning in reaer view .

 Some, times is my vioce recoheted and say is life worth living. the reason for this remain puzzle to historain.as friends become the worst of enemies emouthed with laughter of human nature.

Submitted by pope on June 14, 2005 - 5:19am.

that short lyric was written by james peace onyeoghani

Submitted by pope on June 14, 2005 - 5:30am.

      wat an unconditional love

      in my teen felling pruod of mammas love.

       unknown the flippery minded  son that the word is full of avalanche of pains and deception.

         somebody tell me the best place to seek for refuge , when liberty need an eye glass.

         in open mouthed , i watch youths of my age grade dieds of hiv. then were is the love, baby when u want get me affected .best love is in the hand of mother. troubles i see in the near future .is the poor worth living or should they be segregated from the existence . now ask ur selve .as six issues is wat i have.

        by onyeoghani offor

        from nigeria.
 

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on June 14, 2005 - 6:22am.

I am NEVER this rude, BUT:

You've got that "edit" link...you need to get the spelling right if you're going to represent a writer's work. I'm not sure what in this post made you choose to post them here's either...

Submitted by pope on June 16, 2005 - 7:21am.

        it was due to my space bar

     plesase editor due , help in corecting those erratums it was due to space and short of time.

     as i look forward to ur unflunching corperation.
 

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on June 16, 2005 - 8:26am.

Jack, I'm not correcting a thing. Why you think I told you about the edit link?

There is no editor. No one will correct your spelling or grammar. But as one with much respect for writing and writers, I will prevent you from commenting without approval if necessary and will NOT approve unreadable posts. Given the long rants active commenters make around here, I'm not very sympathetic to poor posts due to lack of time, and there are no space limits to registered users either. In other words, I do not accept your reason for the poor quotation.

If you are promoting this poet, you need to SPELL HIS STUFF CORRECTLY. Especially if you actually ARE that poet.