Good post from Bill Bowman on Civil Disobedient on this story from Sunday’s New York Times on the most recent National Intelligence Estimate. Seems everything those of us opposed to the war in Iraq were saying back before the war was right. How about that?
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Here is a draft (I think) of a poem I wrote this week for my niece, who came home from the hospital earlier this week:
TINY FINGERS
for Jocelyn, seven days old
by Hank Kalet
Tiny fingers
like the smallest twigs
tossed off trees
in a storm, scattered
across the yard,
fragile, like the last
warm day of fall
or news pages
dried and yellowed,
flitting in the breeze,
or a moment of quiet
in Khartoum, in Baghdad
or on the back streets
of this coughing
industrial city.
I can feel you
twitch and turn
in my arms
against the rhythms
of your new breath
under fluorescent lights,
against the hum
of air conditioning and
pinch of feeding tubes,
in your room with a view
of the city and the river,
with our voices, set
like sax solos above
the clinical din
of machines.
What could you
be thinking, dreaming,
seven days old,
nurses on strike
outside your window,
as you raise your hand,
cover your face,
try to pull
the tape off
that holds your
feeding tube
in place?
What could you
be thinking,
fragile fall day
the sun out,
your parents
waiting to take you
home.
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Finally getting a chance to post, for a minute anyway, after spending the day painting the kitchen. Wanted to note this column from Tom Moran in the Star-Ledger. Moran has been pretty consistently banging the drum against corruption and calling out the Democrats for their hypocrisy on the issue. Here he takes on the absurd arguments surrounding the investigation into Camden Sen. Wayne Bryant, calling out the folks who have been coddling this kind of behavior and badly damaging credibility of state and local government in the process.
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Check out New Jersey’s newest political and cultural magazine, City Belt. And not just because it will be running a piece I wrote on the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital nurses strike or my poem, “Saturday at the Car Wash.” Its slogan says all you need to know: “Independent. Progressive. New Jersey.”
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The New York Observer offers an analysis that underscores my own sense of what has happened in the U.S. Senate race here in New Jersey.
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Hank Kalet 