夜は流れ落ちる 嵐の後の融解水のような ぬるま湯で溢れる
evening flows down
like meltwater after a storm
flooding with wet warmth
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
俳句：液体の夕べ
夜は流れ落ちる 嵐の後の融解水のような ぬるま湯で溢れる
evening flows down
like meltwater after a storm
flooding with wet warmth
Photo Exhibit. Postal Art Display: What I Saw at the Circus.
These items were mailed to the Provo Museum of Mail Art during the last part of 2017, and are just now being added to our catalog.
"Arlequin" by Miroslav-Batan Blagojevic, of Serbia.
No title. Postcard. Contributed by Chiara Pizzamigli, of Italy.
No title. By Makhlouf Yasmina, of Paris, France.
"From a Montreal Newspaper." Contributed by Diane Bertrand, of Quebec, Canada.
If you would like to send a postal art piece on the theme: "What I Saw at the Circus" feel free to mail to:
Provo Museum of Mail Art
c/o Tim Torkildson
PCHA Building
650 W 100 N
Suite 115
Provo Utah 84601 USA
There is no entry fee. All submissions become the property of the Museum, and will be digitally displayed on this web site. As of right now, there is no deadline for submissions. We have extended the deadline indefinitely, because of the large and continuing number of contributions.
le besoin d'amour
Jésus a averti que les iniquités dans les derniers jours deviendraient si grandes "que, si possible, ils tromperont les élus mêmes, qui sont les élus selon l'alliance" (JS-M 1:22, voir aussi Matthieu 24:24) . Je comprends que cela signifie que finalement même les plus fidèles des saints de l'alliance du Seigneur deviendront contaminés et menacés par les philosophies modernes. Je crois que c'est pour cette raison qu'à moins que ces jours ne soient raccourcis, aucun de nous ne pourrait rester longtemps indifférent à de telles tendances.
Theodore M. Burton
from Theodore M. Burton's 1979 talk "The Need for Love."
Ledes & Limericks. Wednesday January 3 2018
Kim Jong Un Says He Has a Nuclear
Launch Button on His Office Desk
There once was a nutty old fake
Who blew up the world by mistake.
He buzzed for his tea,
But the button, you see,
Sent missiles the US to bake.
With the collapse of the Greek economy and unemployment at 21%,
pensioners are providing the main source of income for half the people
in the country. Some Greeks are even yanking their elders out of nursing homes
so they can make use of pension payments that would otherwise flow to the caretakers.
From the Wall Street Journal
pensioners are providing the main source of income for half the people
in the country. Some Greeks are even yanking their elders out of nursing homes
so they can make use of pension payments that would otherwise flow to the caretakers.
From the Wall Street Journal
There once was an elderly Greek
Who lived in a nursing home bleak.
His kids had him yanked
To have his funds banked
For them to help run a boutique.
The Vandal and the Mosque:
A New Chapter of Forgiveness
in Arkansas
@stavernise
Forgiveness -- a wonderful word!
To shun it would be too absurd.
When offered, twill bless
Ev’ryone -- more or less;
It should be our planet’s watchword.
Investigative journalism is not dead.
Ask Roy Moore and John Conyers. From the Washington Post
@callumborchers
Though fake news continues to rise/Before reader’s wondering eyes/The writers who snoop/
To bring us real poop/Are still our most loyal allies.
I’m Taking a Cigar Break. See You in Three Hours, 26 Seconds
@CharlesPassy
There was a young man from Pine Bluff
Who on a cigar took a puff.
He could not discern
How someone could yearn
For anything tasting so rough.
Powerful yet addicted to power:
Why the New York Times is in the hot seat so often
@Sulliview
The paper of record regrets
Nothing it ever begets.
A fact may not check
But, hey, what the heck --
We’re busy protecting assets.
Washington Attorney General Sues
Motel 6 for Sharing Guest Info With Feds
After long and weary miles, while driving through the sticks,
It’s nice to find a motor court like good ol’ Motel Six.
The sheets are clean, the shower’s hot, the clerk’s a pleasant guy --
Who also works for Uncle Sam as immigration spy.
So if you sign in as Gomez or Sancho or Patel
You might have agents coming for you at that darn motel.
They’ll want to see some evidence that you are kosher, see?
And then they’ll let you go back to Black Mirror on TV.
But if you cannot show them you belong here in the States
They’ll lodge you absolutely free behind some prison gates.
Then after you have suffered from the bedbugs and the ticks
They’ll take you far away from any good ol’ Motel Six . . .
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Ledes & Limericks. Tuesday January 2 2018
EU Competition Chief Tracks
How Companies Use ‘Big Data’
A person in Brussels once found
That Big Data had got around
To using his thoughts
In sending robots
As pedlars to on his door pound.
A gelatine made from donkey hides is prized
As a traditional Chinese remedy.
Now slaughterhouses have opened
In Africa, and domestic animals are
Disappearing from villages.
From the New York Times
@RachelNuwer
The life of a donkey is sad.
Their skin drives the Chinese quite mad.
Boiled down as a glue
It cures yaws and flu --
In bed they become Galahad.
Alabama Newspaper Staffers
Accuse Publisher of Spanking
From The Cut
@lisarya
Reporters are naughty sometimes,
And for editorial crimes
Their boss must be quick
To wield a big stick;
It stirs up their well-read enzymes. Dairies Are Awash
in Organic Milk
as Consumers Jump
to Alternatives
From the Wall Street Journal
@heatherhaddon
@b_parkyn
The pampered cow has been replaced
By almond trees, from which a paste
Is churned to be drunk --
The cows, in a funk,
Are laying the countryside waste!
un avertissement aux hommes
Je supplie instamment chacun de nous de respecter nos privilèges en tant que détenteurs du sacerdoce. Dans un jour à venir, seuls les hommes qui ont pris leur sacerdoce au sérieux, en cherchant diligemment à être enseignés par le Seigneur Lui-même, seront capables de bénir, de guider, de protéger, de fortifier et de guérir les autres. Seul un homme qui a payé le prix du pouvoir de la prêtrise sera en mesure d'apporter des miracles à ceux qu'il aime et de garder son mariage et sa famille en sécurité, maintenant et pendant toute
l'éternité. President Russell M. Nelson.
I urgently plead with each one of us to live up to our privileges as bearers of the priesthood. In a coming day, only those men who have taken their priesthood seriously, by diligently seeking to be taught by the Lord Himself, will be able to bless, guide, protect, strengthen, and heal others. Only a man who has paid the price for priesthood power will be able to bring miracles to those he loves and keep his marriage and family safe, now and throughout eternity. President Russell M. Nelson.
Monday, January 1, 2018
Photo Essay: 俳句
冬の鋭い光の中で すべて私の新しい希望が始まった ソフトランディングなし
in winter's sharp light
all my new hopes have launched
with no soft landing
羽のボール 冷たい鋳鉄パーチ 影の季節
a ball of feathers a cold cast iron perch a shadow season
飼料を控える 次の春の遅い到着のために 細い空の財布
withholding fodder for next Spring's slow arrival slender empty purses
スプレッド・イーグルのおもちゃ
暗くて乾いていて、疑いもなく愛された
今は霜のために残った
spread-eagle plaything
dark and dry and doubtless loved
now left for the frost
FRANCE SETS UP LARGER TAX DEPT TO INVESTIGATE JEWS
"The department currently has 20
Hebrew-speaking employees,
and is in the process of hiring five more."
The French are such a nosy race
They like to get right in your face.
How much you earn
How much you drink
What do you eat
What do you think
The Gallic nose grows longer still
When they make mountains from molehill
Investigating people who
May have a diff’rent point of view
So if you go to live in France
Don’t go for rights but for romance!
Reporter Byron Tau
Reporter Byron Tau, Wall Street Journal
“It’s nobody’s business what tactics
a print reporter chooses to use in an
interview and if you don’t like it,
nobody is making you read it!”
Tweet by WSJ reporter Byron Tau @ByronTau
There once was a writer named Tau
Who never cared zactly just how
He wormed his way in
To sorrow and sin --
His ethics were that of a plow.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
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