Disasterology

The Badger is the thirteenth astrological sign. My sign. The one the other signs evicted: unanimously. So what? Think I want to read about my future in the newspaper next to the comics? My third grade teacher told me I had no future. I run through the snow and turn around just to make sure I've got a past. My life's a chandelier dropped from an airplane. I graduated first in my class from alibi school. There ought to be a healthy family cage at the zoo, or an open field, where I can lose my mother as many times as I need. When I get bored, I call the cops, tell them there's a pervert peeking in my window! then I slip on a flimsy nightgown, go outside, press my face against the glass and wait... This makes me proud to be an American where drunk drivers ought to wear necklaces made from the spines of children they've run over. I remember my face being invented through a windshield. All the wounds stitched with horsehair So the scars galloped across my head. I remember the hymns cherubs sang in my bloodstream. The way even my shadow ached when the chubby infants stopped. I remember wishing I could be boiled like water and made pure again. Desire so real it could be outlined in chalk. My eyes were the color of palm trees in a hurricane. I'd wake up and my id would start the day without me. Somewhere a junkie fixes the hole in his arms and a racing car zips around my halo. A good God is hard to find. Each morning I look in the mirror and say promises me something don't do the things I've done. - Jeffrey McDaniel

산에서 내려오면서 이런 생각을 해 보았다. 지금 눈앞에 보이는 이 풀 무더기를 한 평만 떼어다 교도소 운동장으로 옮겨 놓을 수만 있다면...... 그럴 수만 있다면 운동시간 내내 그 풀밭에 머리를 박고 지낼 수 있을 텐데...... - 황대권 <야생초 편지>에서

Ron Paul on the American Civil War

Dr. George Tiller (1941-2009)

Supporters of reproductive rights are mourning the killing of the abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The sixty-seven-year-old doctor was shot Sunday as he attended services at his Wichita, Kansas church. The gunman fled the scene, but a suspect was later caught in a Kansas City suburb. Dr. Tiller’s clinic is one of just three in the nation performing late-term abortions after the twenty-first week of pregnancy. Dr. Tiller faced constant threats and incidents of violence and vandalism. His clinic was bombed in 1985. In 1993, Dr. Tiller survived an assassination attempt with gunshot wounds to both arms. Two years earlier, thousands of anti-abortion activists tried to block his clinic during the “Summer of Mercy” protests organized by the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. He had recently asked prosecutors to increase legal action against anti-abortion activists who targeted the clinic. The National Abortion Federation says Dr. Tiller is the eighth abortion provider to be assassinated in the United States since 1977. Seventeen other abortion providers, they say, have been targeted for murder. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/1/dr_george_tiller_1941_2009_murdered

우리 앞의 생이 끝나갈 때

세상이 변해갈 때 같이 닮아가는 내 모습에 때론 실망하며 때론 변명도 해보았지만 흐르는 시간 속에서 질문은 지워지지 않네 우린 그 무엇을 찾아 이 세상에 왔을까 그 대답을 찾기 위해 우리는 홀로 걸어가네