Obamas cirkusmetafor

- fra hans tale til DNC i forgårs:

"Look, I understand why many Americans are down on government. The way the rules have been set up and abused in Congress make it easy for special interests to stop progress. Believe me, I know. I understand why a white factory worker who's seen his wages cut or his job shipped overseas might feel like the government no longer looks out for him, and why a Black mother might feel like it never looked out for her at all. I understand why a new immigrant might look around this country and wonder whether there's still a place for him here; why a young person might look at politics right now, the circus of it all, the meanness and the lies and crazy conspiracy theories and think, what's the point?"

Ørkenøjeblikke

Digt fra John Ashberys digtsamling FRA SIDSTE ÅR, Commotion of the Birds, som jeg købte som e-bog i går aftes og dybt fornøjet har læst lidt over halvdelen af denne morgen:

"DESERT MOMENTS

We watched his regular camera
until it became nervous.
There were other horns inside for us,
things the pasta brought, never to be paced over.

My gosh! The president of the United States!

Years and years went by like that.
It was impossible to keep track of them.
I'm all about truth, and meaning. In the end
they said they were delighted with what they found.

Circuits are busy. Of course, we are not going to sit here
and wait. I have met you in the small shops,
a large cookie presence. I was "robust."
Save me the czardas

at Puke University.
I'm glad he goes in there.
That was the president, you clucks.
Why is it taking so long?

We might come closer (the eldritch mother's refrain
over 23 years ago).
Oh, that's whar that is.
Then suddenly, it's forty years later,
and I was like, "Holy shit!
I'm just happy to be alive!"

It's almost like you've done someting
totally preppy. Your hands are a little dirty,
though.
Yrs and oblige,
Holofernes J. Cringleaf.

"Dear Smitten ...""


- Ashbery tildeles National Humanities Medal, 2012 

David kommenterer midtvejsvalget i USA

Og Hanne-Vibeke Holst er dansk litteraturs Thomas Pynchon

Ifølge forfatteren Hanne-Vibeke Holst er der »noget Obama« over Uffe Elbæk. Hun er en god ven af kulturministeren og en del af hans - vidtforgrenede - netværk.
»Han blev valgt ind i Folketinget, selv om han stod nærmest usandsynligt langt nede på listen. Og det blev han, fordi han er eminent dygtig til at bygge netværk af græsrødder og frivillige op. Ligesom Obama kan han mobilisere mange mennesker, som bliver meget begejstrede og entusiastiske og hjælper ham. Han er også meget populær blandt unge og studerende.De elsker ham, fordi han viser nogle nye veje og lytter til dem og forstår den kulturelle virkelighed, de navigerer i«

Vildt ingenting

Min søn er inde at se Wild Nothing i Pumpehuset,
vildt ingenting at the Pump House,
det lyder som den amerikanske valgkamp,
gid nu den rigtige intethedsoppumpningsmester vinder,
ham der begynder med O!