The Rape of Cassandra

Unsafe, in safety’s net:  the wrath of spit stuck

Deep in the throat by a broken promise spent

Elegant red curls, pooled by blue and white

Prophecy strode along the side like a terror.

Snakes hither and twist the lobes of frank longing

To be believed but believed be not – festering from

The nostalgic bend of splintered arrows and rust?

Nestled on the floor of burnt offerings and peace keys.

A shudder in the temple torments her like tears,

Awash in the lesser wills of man, concubine of kings

Now dead as further.

                                      Further dreams come and go,

So much worry in the ways of the night in flames,

Two boys dead in the memory of her lank futility

Scrubbed by indifference until even glowing white. 

A GENERAL REFUSAL TO BE FALSE

“I Don’t Know.  Perhaps, (thus: Stumbling) the next Day will Usher-In a Moment, of Which, I Will Know Nothing Besides it Representing the Closing, a Mouth, a Project, a Falsity, a Verbal Transfusion of Regret that will be Slammed from the Mind for all Time; or Rather: the Body, to be but of Gut, thus Closed Off, and from and Within: the Heart; as if, this Next Day, will Come in the Guise of a Plenum: Enveloped, Complete, Enraptured, in the Precise Instant, I Comprehend: That It Of Nothing…”

 -Boris Izsus 2012

WRESTLED DOWN IN CONFUSION

“Each Face, Equals its own Tired Completion; and every Line, Embedded or Engraved: its Consequence culled from a Life gathered in Heaps of Sweepings and Piled-Up around the Eyes at Random…”

-Boris Izsus2013

Cynicism (Objectively)

1.     ‘NO ARREST’

2.     SHAME:  SENATE KILLS BACKGROUND CHECKS

3.     MEDIA BLOWS IT AGAIN

4.     Background Checks Deal On Brink of Collapse

5.     Poison Letter Sent to OBAMA

6.     Scalia:  Voting Rights Act is A Form Of ‘Racial Preferment’

7.     CNN Reporter:  Suspect A “Dark-Skinned Male’

8.     Another Embarrassing Setback for Troubled Foreclosure Program

9.     The Newest Right-Wing Myth Takes Center Stage

10.  PHOTO:  Time’s Heartbreaking Boston Cover

11.  ‘Whoever Did This Obviously Did Not Know About The People Of Boston

12.  TRAGEDY:  Man’s Apparent Suicide Leaves Entire Family Dead

13.  Wife of Ex-Judge Arrested In DA Murder Case

14.  Student Loans Could Drag Down Economy, Fed Bank Says

15.  Harry Reid Comes Out For Assault Weapons Ban

16.  Major Victory For Dreamers In New Immigration Bill

17.  Boston Victims’ Stories Begin To Emerge

18.  Nancy Regans’s Daughter Says Former First Lady Supports Gay Marriage

19.  Teacher Accused of Calling Black Student ‘Monkey’

20.  House Immigration Group Says Talks Are Moving Forward

21.  GOP Rep:  Radical Islamists Being Trained To ‘Act Like Hispanic’

22.  Margaret Thatched Laid To Rest

23.  24 Dead In Wave of Afghan Attacks

24.  Rand Paul ‘Considering Presidential’ Run

25.  Guantanamo Hunger Strikes Numbers Continue To Rise

26.  Krugman:  ‘So Much Is At Steak’ In Research Controversy

27.  Rat Poison-Laced Sandwiches Send 25 To Hospital

28.  Max Factor Heir Resentenced To 50 Years For Rape

29.  ‘BETTER THINGS TO DO’

30.  BRINK OF COLLAPSE

31.  Too Late To Stop Climate Change

32.  Here We Go Again…

33.  ‘IT’S ALL NONSENSE’

34.  7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Your Time On Right Now

35.  HAPPY VALLEY

36.  ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

37.  TOO BIG TO FAIL

38.  Too Sexy For This Country

39.  10 Ways To Be Healthier In 10 Minutes

40.  OUCH

41.  I Almost Convinced Myself That Motherhood Was For Me – Almost

42.  LOOK:  The World’s Biggest ‘Boys Clubs’ Exposed

43.  ‘I’m Still Alive, I’m Still Strong – And I Am Happy’

44.  Honest Toddler Knows A Great Time To Call Asa Meeting About SockNs

45.   Has Notorious Tyrant’s Tomb Been Found?

46.  BURRIED IN GRIEF

47.  The Jobs Crisis:  ‘It May Not Be ‘Breaking News’ But It’s Definitely ‘Broken News’

48.  At Least the Big Banks Are Kickin’ It…

49.  What I Say At The Finish Line

50.  Reading the Pictures:  What the Bloody Boston Marathon

51.   The Dis-Uniting of America

52.  Thatcher At The Movies

53.  How the Explosions Changed Parenthood Forever for Me

54.  New Torture Reports Blames Obama and the Media For Not Confronting the Truth

55.  Out of the Shadows and into the Light

Huffington Post, Front Page, iPhone edition

4/17/13, 5:08 pm

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44 Negative Stories (80 %)

8 Positive Stories (15%)

2 Neutral Stories (5%)