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WALKING ON THIN ICE

Yesterday’s 7

Never fear, no logic here.

These are simply the seven fotos I took yestersay — in chronological order: one on the way to the poetry reading, three at the poetry reading, two out at my in-laws, and one in my closet.








Yesterday 12.10.2011 – fotos Smith

Letter to the Wealthiest Person in the World

This is the letter I emailed Carlos Slim Helu today. According to Forbes, his family’s monetary wealth is estimated to be 74 billion dollars.

Dear Mr. Helu:

It has recently come to my attention that you and your family have the most monetary wealth in the world. I refer to a web page that I see on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires/list.

I see that you are from Mexico. I have read that there are a lot of financial problems in Mexico. We are from the United States. My husband and I lived in Mexico for 18 months, and just like the United States, I see that there are people who are begging in the streets for money. In Mexico, there are also children who beg for money. Some children suffer from malnourishment as well. When we visited there we met a teenager who had suffered such that her hair, which was supposed to be black, had portions in it that were brittle and pale.

Seventy-four billion dollars is more than enough money for you and your family. I have a proposal for you and your family. I would like you to donate the excess money you have–like roughly seventy-three billion dollars and a half–to people who have suffered from poverty in Mexico. I am sure many people will be appreciative of this and this will make your life and your family’s lives much more happy.

I think it will also be good to reject NAFTA as I have heard first hand from people that this has harmed them–both in Mexico and in the United States. It especially impacted the cost of tortillas.

Can you please help with this issue?

Peace,

Lady

. . .

Contact information – Mr. Carlos Slim Helu:

Telefonos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
Consejo de Administración
c/o Carlos Slim Helu, Presidente Honorario Vitalicio
Parque Via 198
Oficina 701
Colonia Cuauhtemoc
06599 Mexico, D.F.
Mexico

Phone: +52-55-5703-3990
Fax: +52-55-5545-5550
E-Mail: ri@telmex.com

The Lady poet & Dada Greybeard





The family that disarrays together, stays together
fotos of Lady K & Smith by machine

Dada Greybeard

A lady poet followed me home
and asked if I could keep her.
I replied
it must be denied
for I had no room in my freezer.
She engineered her stay
of relocation with play
charm and elocution.
Praised this and that
allowed a wee pat
counted on evolution.
I may be cheap
and easy too
but for female I’m hard-wired.
And too
it’s sort of cool
this once being the one that’s desired.
Though I question her taste
her need of rat waste
a too hasty fade
will shatter shades
I cannot replace.
Best to see
what she reweaves
what treasure in her trundle.
Though it fracture my plan
I am but man
and man is meant to bundle.

— Smith, 2005

Provided by Professor Smith


The door of perception – foto Smith

Provided by Professor Smith

Quarks are bound by gluons
inside protons and neutrons

Quirks are created by glitches
tightened tautological twitches

Neutrinos are faster than light
reach day way before night

String theory holds it all together
in various kinds of variable whether

Light can be particle or wave
depending on the question you gave

Neither time nor space quantumly exist
are merely brain created myth

We’re all one half-second slow on is
conscious lie from brain body fizz

The elusive Higgs boson gives us mass
then turns and bites us on the ass

Heisenberg dances here and there
playing dead alive with why of where

Dark matter much out weighs the known
both here and on stark side of moon

The Universe is a holographic projection
part of the Great Programmers’ entertainment division

— Smith, 12.9.2011


Down to earth – foto Smith

Lady K’s digitalization

The collages and words below are by Lady K . . . she created them for the Occupy Cleveland Daily Digest which she posts every other day at OccupyCleveland.com.


Venusians – collage by Lady K

Collage riffing on the idea of revolution being implemented in a peaceful way–army of “Venusians” as opposed to “Martians,” as Mars has been associated in our myths with war whereas Venus with love. Hopefully we can retrofit our myths, though.


Peace Be – collage by Lady K

Person scaling the Free Stamp. The words “FREE” are upside-down and backwards on the stamp. This particular crop seems to indicate the word, “be” and also the peace sign.


Peace Sign Language – collage by Lady K

Sign language for peace, my husband’s sun avatar and my mirror. Spell for comfort and warmth (albeit not global warming).


Perpetual Dreaming Organic Be I – collage by Lady K

Collage of advent candles, moon, sky and hiker in green woods. Was thinking about use of resources on this planet vs. creature comforts–the fire seems to both burn the atmosphere and also offers hope of renewal. The hiker is starting on a platform of cloud through a path into the forest which goes to the moon. The advent season is a season of hope. Also wondering about the antigravitiness of it all.


Prayer For Cold Winters – collage by Lady K

Collage of midnight sun, polar bear family, and prayer poem to keep habitats intact for these creatures of the cold.


Push Environmentalism and I – collage by Lady K

The word “Push” is from a door on Carnegie Avenue next to Aladdin’s Baking Company. The “Push” pops out of the page, pushing local purchase and economy with an eye towards keeping the globe safer. We can keep the globe safer by stopping so much shipping, so much international trade–this will sustain us better. But we need to sustain ourselve sustainably. Much money is to be made in this, and the use of the color green is meant to allude to not only money but making sure we are environmentally-oriented (albeit not by creating so much greenhouse gas). The peace sign is used to kind of counter the spread out hands and the concept of push–to show that it is a peaceful push rather than an aggressive push popping out of the page.


Sparrow Song for Earth – collage by Lady K

Collage of sign language that means “ant,” sparrow, shadow of myself on paint-spattered steps and earth. Sparrow is singing to Earth–sparrow is a sign of the song of God. Bone heart after Smith’s having written a poem about his secret name. Skeleton hand in head unknown and curious–would like to think of it as the ability to build infrastructure from thought–shadow. My womb will be barren as well so this photo is also about transcendence–how to transcend being barren. The bird’s beak is pointing in the same direction as the opening of the legs, but if the legs were fingers coming from a hand they’d sing “peace.” Mother Earth calls us to breed but we can sing songs for its fecundity as well–and fecundity does not have to directly translate into literal birth. Also playing with the ideas of rebirthing Earth and what this means. Paint spatters symbolize cosmos, stars as well, concrete steps symbolize the utility of concrete measurement in spiritual times. Also wanted to utilize the idea of ant on a couple levels; first being that it is important have more of an altruistic worker-mindset and focus on solving immediate problems for Mother Earth; second, the word play on aunt and ant and how that plays into my personal context & compensation since I am not having literal children; third, the idea of using mass mind to solve problems.


Ether – collage by Lady K

Collage of photos taken on Train Ave. I like the multiple levels of transcendence- diving through a window through a puddle on a road on the ground into ether.


Field and __ject – collage by Lady K

Meditation on context, subject, object, field, happiness, concern, black, white, gray, color, face, 100, .01, activism.


Heart heart Heart heart – collage by Lady K

Original digital collage inspired by Tinman song by Trenchcoat Manifesto. Was thinking our movement needed to think about its heart–in terms delineating too much from not enough–how does one tell? Also was thinking something about syncopation but can’t remember the context. Am interested in the symbolism of the words “Trenchcoat Manifesto” in terms of the slacker generation and unburdening ourselves of apathy and regaining heart.


Monad – collage by Lady K

For me the zebra first calls to mind my husband, the agent of chaos. He used a zebra in one of his most excellent collages, “e=mc2,” and also has a collage called “self centered,” so the name “Self Portrait” reminds me of this.

The name “Self Portrait” also reminds me of the oneness of everyone and I like the thought of looking at the collage and realizing that I am Self Portrait.

Zebras are also symbolic of how to hold dichotomies within the whole, and sometimes they are symbolic of the ability to blend in. The colors black and white also make me think of my husband as he is an ex-prisoner and uses the colors black and white in dichotomic yet integrative ways in many of his speculative photo compositions and samples of reality.

The zebra in this is spray painted on a train, which makes it fine art. It is standing under a rainbow of a single band of white, which is all colors.


Choices and Being I – collage by Lady K

Choices and Being. Chimpanzee contemplating death. We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. We have called ourselves omnivores but we do have the choice to stop eating so many of our fellow animals. So very much eating our fellow animals causes much destruction to the environment in terms of additional plants to raise the animals that are raised for slaughter. It is much more efficient to obtain protein from plants rather than our fellow animals. In addition, the fertilizer required to grow the plants to feed the fellow animals for consumption is hurting our ecosystem–not only our water–the production of use and fertilizer also creates more greenhouse gas production, so it hurts the air as well. Let’s stop hurting our air, water and fellow animals on such a large scale.

Encounter with an Alien Life Form


shadowcat – foto by Smith

Encounter with an Alien Life Form

I’m half sleep
drifting in hot bath
sense motion
turn to watch cat saunter in
smooth and silent like shadow.

I softly say
“You are a mysterious, enigmatic creature.”

She stops
stands
stares me in eye awhile
sighs slightly off “Me-oh”
turns and leaves.

— Smith, 12.6.2011


Still life with cat – foto Smith

Chairman of the Bored


Façade – foto Smith

Chairman of the Bored

Don’t call us
we won’t call you

The system’s not broke
it’s fixed

It’s always been fixed
in favor of the few

Who with fear and force
control the course

Sometimes you just got to bite the bully
and carry on

No glory without grief

— Smith, 12.5.2011


? coming soon – foto by Smith

IN SOME HOWS REASSEMBLING HEAVEN


Car Lady – foto Smith

Lady wrote a poem to accompany her Occupy Cleveland every-other-day daily digest but didn’t post it for the rest of us, so here it is.

IN SOME HOWS REASSEMBLING HEAVEN

In some hows
knowing words real
we produce the caveats of our vocabulary
to reality under rocks or in our private maybes.

Do we say under shadows for each other
what was made by halves?

By halves and halves again in labyrinth
the vision looks behind and deletes
the pillars of salt
when possible intention intuited

Associations stick on every noun.

In some hows
wish that being naked not such hard diamond
knowing words real

In some hows
wants to know the nuances and the asterisks!

In some hows
wants calligraphy mapmaking mindmaps writing breathing
truth come clean
put back together
all the diamond slivers

forgiveness
sans deletes

In some hows
knowing we’re one good and how in some hows
we want to reassemble heaven

in some hows

in Some how
with art poetry activism all
children brothers sisters
moms dads families
mother earth father sky
rivers waters dirt air
dirtily clean

in-some-how-the-right-to-respire-when-I-am-old

– Lady Smith


The Lady & the Grinch – foto by Smith

wife sez


Mind frost – foto Smith

wife sez
I’ve got a black hole in my head
only my black hole’s a good hole
that’s where I send all my thoughts of my ex


Brick brain