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Carlos Gesmundo
  • Minneapolis, MN
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Hassan-- Help! Help! -- a powerful call for sanity to end the craziness...wherever on earth we live. Carlos Gesmundo

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In sum

1. We had read, in sum: “We are part of a whole – the whole being Nature the part being Man. And we're Nature’s putative avant-garde." 2. Yet -- men have caused both wealth and privation freedom an…

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1. Like Sandburg’s fog fractured conversations would move in, and on, in their minds: “They shape our personal stories -- these hardy hands in factories and fields…." “They create wealth and histories not yet their own…." “Except in true red zone…
December 10
Carlos Gesmundo commented on nimal dunuhinga's blog post 'My Jockey Boss rides on an Ass'
Apparently, your boss is a fool and uneducated.
November 20
Carlos Gesmundo added a blog post
1. We had read, in sum: “We are part of a whole – the whole being Nature the part being Man. And we're Nature’s putative avant-garde." 2. Yet -- men have caused both wealth and privation freedom and repression social order and anarchy. Men have a…
November 13
Carlos Gesmundo commented on Afrah Al-Kubaisi افراح الكبيسي's event 'Please Lets All Write a Poem for These Children'
Every child should be able to bring a friend to dinner with the family. I offer this poem: dinner time his kite pulls the wind toward home First posted at http://blueposts-by-agcarlos.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html
November 9
Carlos Gesmundo is attending Afrah Al-Kubaisi افراح الكبيسي's event
June 21, 2009 to August 31, 2010
FIVE million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Baghdad, Dec 15, 2008 (VOI) – Iraq’s anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statis…
November 9
Carlos Gesmundo replied to Hassan Hegazy's discussion 'Help ! Help !'
Hassan-- Help! Help! -- a powerful call for sanity to end the craziness...wherever on earth we live. Carlos Gesmundo
November 8
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November 6

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Your Actual Name (not stage or pen name)
A Gesmundo Carlos
Hometown:
A Midwest City
Stage or Page or Both
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About Me:
My interests: Alienation, Culture, Current Events, Haiku, History, Human Nature, Human Rights, Nature, News From Around The World, Peace, Political Economy, Politics, Social Change, Zen
Website:
http://blueposts-by-agcarlos.blogspot.com

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Chapter 2. Bit Players*

1.
Like Sandburg’s fog
fractured conversations
would move in,
and on, in their minds:

“They shape our personal stories --
these hardy hands
in factories and fields…."

“They create wealth and histories
not yet their own…."

“Except in true red zones,
they remain nameless
invisible to bourgeois mores….”

2.
Back then, they thought -- and they struggled --
that their lives were petty and feckless
like the bit parts that bit actors profess
they only suffer for food on the table.

They imagi… Continue

Posted on December 10, 2009 at 6:30pm —

Carlos Gesmundo

Chapter 1. In Sum*

1.
We had read, in sum:

“We are part of a whole –
the whole being Nature
the part being Man.
And we're Nature’s putative avant-garde."

2.
Yet -- men have caused both
wealth and privation
freedom and repression
social order and anarchy.

Men have also caused
famine and plenty
dams and drought
both certitude and doubt.

War and peace.

3.
The most evolved part of Nature?

We needed to be reminded, occasionally,
of the protracted process of change --
among men, as in Nature.

Meanwhile, we… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 8:00pm —

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