Reading At Moe's/Breaking Bread/No One But Us/ Evolution-Shmevolution

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Save the Date Monday June 11th

Katherine Hastings and Ed Coletti Reading at Moe's Books in Berkeley

If you're available (try to be available), my good friend and wonderful poet Katherine Hastings (Word Temple and KRCB) and I (Ed Coletti) will both be reading at historic Moe's Books in Berkeley at 7:30 PM Monday June 11th.




(P2) Philosophical

"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead."

- W.H. Auden

There is No One But Us

There is no one but us.
There is no one to send,
nor a clean hand nor a pure heart
on the face of the earth, nor in the earth,
but only us,
a generation comforting ourselves
with the notion that we have come at an awkward time,
that our innocent fathers are all dead
--as if innocence had ever been--
and our children busy and troubled,
and we ourselves unfit, not yet ready,
having each of us chosen wrongly,
made a false start, failed,
yielded to impulse and the tangled comfort of pleasures,
and grown exhausted, unable to seek the thread, weak, and involved.
But there is no one but us.
There never has been.

- Annie Dillard




(P3) Political

What, Me Science? 

Just imagine!  3 Republican presidential candidates at the first debate raised their hands to
signify that they DO Not believe in evolution!  These 3 bright lights are Tancredo, Brownback,
and Huckabee.  The idea of not one but 3 candidates for President of the United
States not believing in the very most basic scientific fact!  Fortunately none of the 3 has even
an amoeba's chance of surviving more than a few more electoral moments.

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Reading Photos/Flashback/To Die In Vain

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First SoCoCo Reading and First Reading Together With My Son John Coletti

May 3d was truly memorable for the two headlined reasons. Sonoma Coffee Company worked out as a wonderfully intimate venue. Readers pictured below were all "on." Bliss prevailed. Pictured John Coletti, Ed Coletti, Kathleen Winter David Beckman, Richard Denner, Jodi Hottel. Next SoCoCo Reading will be July 5th at 7:30 and with a whole new slate to be announced soon.

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(P2) Philosophical

Who shall speak for the dead in our private ceremonies of remembrance?

by Ed Hagan

It is we.

We that step forward today.

Some of us that can still stand.

Others among us can’t stand today but still muster our bodies from our chairs and others stir from our beds.

We who are alive remember and salute you.

Forty years ago there were more of us that shared the moments of death and dying in the flicker of seconds passing like our hearts pounding among those noisy moments of shock.

Numbing moments of anguish that crushed our bodies as the blasts from bombs exploding reverberated in every tightened muscle that changed pitch like violin strings wound to their breaking point as they played a symphony from hell .

Steel bending, melting, dripping to the deck below. Blood bleeding from bodies mixed together with sweat, Co2, PKP, JP5, Avgas all into a swift flow washed away in the sea water and tears that flowed..

And after the fire was out we heard the word from the PA. For us thankfully it was not God.

Those that almost died but didn’t possessed wounded spirits. Minds marked suffering the memories of the dead on that day July 29, 1967, forty years ago. Over those forty years one by one each survivor suffered the sorrow of comrades lost. Fewer of us to remember that gathering "the only thing worse than soldiers dying in vain are more soldiers dying in vain." spirits, souls, cells and salt of the sea.

Passage from the forthcoming book “Forrestal BeDevilers of VF-74 Ord”, by my friend Edward J. Hagan III copyright 2007

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(P3) Political

"the only thing worse than soldiers dying in vain are more soldiers dying in vain."

- Alaska Senator Mike Gravel

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One Last Blog (cartoon)/Screw Light Bulb/Oxymoron Pudding

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(P2) Political

Question: How many Bush- administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any report of its lack of incandescence is a delusional spin by the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say about its going out undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?

(Source unknown - in The Sun May 2007)

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Oxymoron Pudding

Ever too many unshuttered souls

Torso-torn faults

Butterscotch-gaped

Deep here within

Still another good war.

(ed coletti 2007)

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