elegies

Yesterday was 12 years since the good sweet crazy Allen Ginsberg went to the next hurrah.It was also Igor Stravinsky's birthday.A lot of karma on that day...reading the new issue of rolling stone, with a profile of one of the great men of my time, Kris Kristofferson ,by the actor ethan Hawke.well...too much of the writer,but a couple of anecdotes.Kristofferson shouting down Toby Keith at Willie Nelson's 70th bd . Keith, a typical chicken hawk, all bluff and no balls, is a paradigm of the new america,the type of true blue shitbird who thinks being patriotic is supporting lying fear mongering torturers,who thinks that waving a flag makes you "true blue" what cynicism!He is a Limbaugh-wannabe :a bloviating bullshitter, soft,bullying,intellectually challenged[and smug about it],mean spirited,the kind to piss on someone rather then bend down to help . The Flotsam that is current music will bear him along to it's septic tank[american idol]. And oblivion{a footnote is that Keith has denied it ever took place{...watching opening day ' festivities', i wonder, why the hell does it always turn into some jingoistic tripe?Why do we need air force flyovers? Is it to remind us of power?never quite understood this.How does this support some GI in Iraq or Afghanistan{or s korea or Germany ,etc.]? ...BTW how sick and twisted is the question if Sarah Palin is the answer?