John Keats original preface and dedication met with strong objections from J. H. Reynolds, and his publisher, Taylor and Hessey.
The original dedication read: “with every feeling of pride and regret
and with a bowed mind, to the memory of the most English of poets
except Shakespeare, Thomas Chatterton.” 19 of March 1818.

The classical notion of a working class of a society by Gerald A. Cohen: 1) it constitute the majority of a society; 2) it produce the wealth of society; 3) it consists of the exploited member of society; 4) its members are the needy people in society; 5) the working class has nothing to lose from revolution;
6) it can and will engage in a revolutionary transformation of society.
According to Slavoj Sizek none of the first four features applies to the contemporary working class, that is why features 5) and 6) can not be generated.
Does contemporary global capitalism contain antagonisms which are sufficiently strong to prevent its indefinite reproduction?
Sizek discussed four in his book “In Defense of Lost Causes:”
1) Ecology; 2) The inadequacy of private property for the so-called
“intellectual property.” 3) The socio-ethical implications of the new techno-scientific developments (Biogenetics) 4) New forms of apartheid, new walls and slums.

During the naval skirmish between American destroyer and a Soviet B-59 submarine off Cuba on October 27, 1962. The destroyer dropped depth charges near the submarine to try to force it to the surface, not knowing it had a nuclear tipped torpedo. Vadim Orlov, a member of the submarine crew, told the conference in Havana that the submarine has been authorized to fire it if three officer agreed. The offices began a fierce shouting match over whether to sink the ship. Two of them said yes and the other said no. “A guy named Arkhipov saved the world,” was the bitter comment of a historian on this incident. David Rennie, “How Soviet Sub officer Saved World from Nuclear Conflict,” Daily Telegraph, October 14, 2002.
9 Unbehagen in der Natur, In Defense of Lost Causes, Slavoj Zizek.

“Sandcastle.Buddhism and Global Finance” a documentary by
Alexander Oey, a puzzling cinematographic work.
The basic premise of Buddhist thought is that there is no objective reality.
An economist, a sociologist, and a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, examine and consider the socioeconomic effects of the global finance of capital markets estimated $83 trillion.
Perhaps a unique view of the Buddhist thought and the capitalism’s domain. And on the nature of human perception, illusion, and enlightenment.
Appealing material for writers.

Government is instituted for the common good; for protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
– John Adams –

Poetry is rebellion. The poet is not offended if he is called subversive. Life is more important than social structures and no one has the right to create regulations for the human soul.
Poets with consciousness hate hatred and make war on war.
I have been blessed by Nature to have Chile as my homeland, and USA as my residency.
Come and joint SLC local artists at Alchemy Coffee at 1700 South 400 West, Tuesday at 6:30 PM, and at
Mestizo Coffee House & Art Gallery at North Temple & 600 West, Wed. at 7:00 PM. Hector Ahumada.

Most of historians agreed that Jews came to the Iberian Peninsula with the Roman legions, and a second group arrived after the destruction of the second Jerusalem temple in 70 C.E.
Other legends mentioned the arrival of Jews to Sepharad (Hebrew word for Spain) with the Phoenician merchants in the X century B.C.E. during King Salomon era.
Obadiah prophet uses the word “Sepharad” for the land that some of the exiled Jews from Jerusalem will live in.
Jews, Moors, and Christians live and worked together in an integrated and tolerant multicultural atmosphere for centuries in the Sepharad (Spain). During this time the Cordova Library had a million volumes.
Actively engaged in trade Spanish Jews were the main importers and exporters of silk, leather, textiles, grains, fruits, spices and cattle.
Travel documentation records show that the Jewish merchant Benjamin of Tudela arrived in China a century before Marco Polo.
Volumes can be written about the work done by Sepharad Jews and Arab scholars working together during this Golden Age.
If the cliché that history repeats itself is valid, “There is hope.”

The lake is empty.
Nothing any longer rises from it,
nothing can soak in its vapor.
I sit on a rock in the center of it.
I feel the presence of dead water.
I feel the presence of those who have died here.
The air is fertile with them.
I feel the wind close over me.
Silently I wait for the rain.

Poem by Sandy Anderson

After Jean-Antoine Watteau

The body in another century is the body
in my century, the body is mine, soft
in youth, puffy in folds along the stomach.
The skin feels cool against the sheets.
The rounded vowel of her hip,
the small breast, shoulder held upright
by elbow and forearm. She barely notices
her other hand, draped over the side
of the matress, thin fingers useless without
her will pouring into them. She is
as we should be, delighted in flesh
careless, in delight, in time, out of time,
the archetype of the nude girl from which all
others descend, ascend, she turns her head
toward what, something out of the picture,
a mirror, a man, something that fills her,
something that curls her lips into a smile
that make her body imply the scent of violets.
And we will keep her here so much longer
than the body intended, a shape for the eyes
that imagines weight and warmth, the ghost behin.

Poem by Joel Long

A segment of the poem translated from German language.

The house of the poor is like an altar.
In it the eternal transforms into food;
and at evening it quietly returns
in a wide circle and retreats.

The house of the poor is like an altar.