Sewers of Babel

The New Project
Genesis 11:

4: And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth [...]
8: So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9: Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

-But what good is scattering and settling to those who dreamt through the tower's upsurge, and quivered beneath its fall in labyrinthine water-mains and undergound halls? They may be there still, gathering fragments of news from bits of paper and rumor, stuck with language, scurrying from the dreadful eyes of God.

And thus I've been spending my time riding another horse, while Bucephalus wanders further north.
But it's fun, and more of a group-linkpost thing than a soul-scouring washbasin. It has more hope in it because of the extra beating hearts, and because of the newness. Rebuild from the ruins, then go campaigning.
Godspeed.

Nurses Song [William Blake]

When voices of children are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
'Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away,
Till the morning appears in the skies.'

'No, no, let us play, for it is yet day,
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,
And the hills are all covered with sheep.'
'Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,
And then go home to bed.'
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed,
And all the hills echoed.

There is a wonderful performance of this poem done to music by Allen Ginsberg; will post it soon.

The Long Day Off

The long day off
(the day long off?)
where I work for no one's interest
but my own (when mine expands
to address the sum and total
without missing those alone).