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[ . . . ] A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze! How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime, while you cursed the heavens of the railroad and your flower soul? Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower? when did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive? the ghost of a locomotive? the specter and shade of a once powerful mad American locomotive? [ . . . ] —Allen Ginsberg "Sunflower Sutra," 1955 http://www.boppin.com/sunflower.html

IN THE CAPITAL       

'Who rules here?'
I asked.
They said:
'The people naturally.'

I said
'Naturally the people
but who
really rules?"

—Erich Fried

"The Right to Rave" (by Eduardo Galeano) [http://www.bendypig.com/right2rave.html] "we shall be compatriots and contemporaries of all who have a yearning for justice and beauty, no matter where they were born or when they lived, because the borders of geography and time shall cease to exist; perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods; while in our bungling messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last, and every day as if it were the first"

[contra Galeano: not all deserts should be clothed with forests. —js]

For a google search for links to s/r, see http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greens.org%2Fs-r%2F&btnG=Search (which returns mostly internal s/r links!)