DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
Musings, 08:12 hrs. PDT/GMT-8, 18 August 2006, Friday, epoch studio, 13.5` C sunny and cool
I'm trying to think of an illustrated poem for this space today. I'll post it later when I get my head straight. I've had another three days of self imposed isolation and aside from "HI how are yas?" in the hallway on my way for a dump or wash up my only source of contact has been this computer and the internet. I've tried to watch some TV but everything is in re run mode so not much to interest me there.
The corporate media is going ga ga over the Jon Benet Ramsey case once again. I wonder how many more headlines that poor little girl and her family are going to generate. The family should get a kick back from the advertisers for all the tooth paste, baby diapers, and maxi pads these headlines have sold. I see the Mom has died from cervical cancer and the Dad looks twenty years older than his stated age. It must be hell to really never be able to have any closure from a tragedy like that. Of course when you lose a child there never is any "closure". You get on with your life but there is always the feeling of deep sadness that something or someone is missing. To be constantly hassled by the media picking the scabs off your wounded psyche must be a another form of torture that only adds to the pain.
There is a morbid sort of fascination with celebrity death, James Dean, Elvis Presley, Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Monroe et al. It might not be the dog days of summer but the TV programing sure is, ha ha.
Ciao, JWL
I'm trying to think of an illustrated poem for this space today. I'll post it later when I get my head straight. I've had another three days of self imposed isolation and aside from "HI how are yas?" in the hallway on my way for a dump or wash up my only source of contact has been this computer and the internet. I've tried to watch some TV but everything is in re run mode so not much to interest me there.
The corporate media is going ga ga over the Jon Benet Ramsey case once again. I wonder how many more headlines that poor little girl and her family are going to generate. The family should get a kick back from the advertisers for all the tooth paste, baby diapers, and maxi pads these headlines have sold. I see the Mom has died from cervical cancer and the Dad looks twenty years older than his stated age. It must be hell to really never be able to have any closure from a tragedy like that. Of course when you lose a child there never is any "closure". You get on with your life but there is always the feeling of deep sadness that something or someone is missing. To be constantly hassled by the media picking the scabs off your wounded psyche must be a another form of torture that only adds to the pain.
There is a morbid sort of fascination with celebrity death, James Dean, Elvis Presley, Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Monroe et al. It might not be the dog days of summer but the TV programing sure is, ha ha.
Ciao, JWL
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