for Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock & Roll
tell my why, tell me why ...
heartwriting my book of love
line by line, word by word
FYI: FYI: Tina Turner's "Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" (live at the Blockbuster Pavilion in San Bernardino, California, 1993)
...Tell me why? Baby. Why must we wait until tonight? Oh, yeah.
Tell me why? Why, when I've waited all my life?
You're touching me, I'm touching you...
Oooh, what should I do? Now tell me why, why must we wait 'till tonight?
You like to take it real slow.
Show me every little move you know.
Take a little love and watch it grow.
But I want to lay with you...darling.
Right now.
Make love all day with you baby.
And show you how...
Take my body, don't take my time.
Take your lips and make them mine...
Added: Game Show 2024, XX
Ain't No Sunshine
to Ron DeSantis whose political preoccupations are: “Disney-bashing, book banning, and policing who uses which bathroom"
repeat after me
Make America Great again...
his baby babbling
amazing dad!
he teaches his toddler daughter
to build the [paper] wall
2024 bid
just another Trump without
(sexual) baggage
FYI: The New Yorker, May 25: It Was More Than a #DeSaster: Ron DeSantis’s botched campaign launch suggests that he’s no Trump-killer
... when DeSantis’s official campaign launch, on Twitter, was mired with technical glitches.... both on Twitter and in a subsequent interview on Fox News, which boiled down to a lot of complaints about the ‘legacy media’ and little rationale for his candidacy.” DeSantis failed to mention Trump by name, and instead focussed on his own political preoccupations—which Glasser describes as “Disney-bashing, book banning, and policing who uses which bathroom.”
Added: This Brave New World, LXXXIII
written in response to Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial "Statesman"and for Christopher Hitchens author of The Trial of Henry Kissinger that presents a series of arguments about alleged war crimes committed by his American “nemesis”.
Kissinger blows out
one hunderd birthday candles
in the spotlight
as I imagine him being put
in the dock at The Hague
FYI: Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why he’s not sitting in the dock at The Hague next to Milošević.”
-- Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
For more, see Democracy Now, May 24: Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Secret Cambodia Bombing That Set Stage for Forever Wars
And Rolling Stone, Nov.29: Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him
BBC News, November 30: Henry Kissinger: China mourns 'a most valued old friend' and Time Magazine, Nov. 30: Why China Fondly Remembers Henry Kissinger
Added:
This Exceptionalist
on whom the musician Tom Lehrer famously remarked, “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Kissinger blows out
one hundred birthday candles
in the spotlight
as I imagine him being put
in the dock at The Hague
goodbye for good
the American Century
incarnate!
the "peace prize" winner dies
with blood on his hands
FYI: I expanded "hundred birthday candles" into a tanka set, This Exceptionalist. And The Nation, Nov.29: A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger: For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
And The New Yorker, Nov. 30: Henry Kissinger’s Hard Compromises
In 1973, when he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering a ceasefire with the North Vietnamese, two members of the Nobel committee resigned in protest....The musician Tom Lehrer famously remarked, “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” ...He was known to greet a wary dinner partner with the opening words, “I suppose you are one of those people who think I’m a war criminal.”
