We Crave Affection but Give Only Advice

Excellent hikes last three days with yesterday's Earthgirl's favorite farthest away nearby Sky Meadow State Park in northern most tip of Fauquier County, Virginia, gorgeous, land of $70K pick-up trucks with yellow Don't Tread on Me license plates and no regard for speed limits

• Friend texts (as I type this), watch Trump's propaganda tonight to see and record it live and keep it in my head where I can find it later, she says, I am living in extraordinary time, and she is not is not wrong, and no
• The citizens with the most guns invariably support the biggest pussy I almost tweeted out last night at a tweet when Trump was especially cracker self-pitying
• Saturday was Hoyle's Mill Trail in Boyds, Maryland, Earthgirl's favorite hike, period

• Friday did Ten Mile Creek Trail, Boyds too, hike weekdays, mocomofos, lots of mountain bikes on weekends, I understand why 
• I'd hike it for the ghosts of a past life regardless but it's my current favorite stretch of six mile walking in Moco

• Now anger:
• 50 years ago
• Cassandra: If America enters the next wave of coronavirus infections “with the wealthy having gotten somehow wealthier off this pandemic by hedging, by shorting, by doing all the nasty things that they do, and we come out of our rabbit holes and realize, ‘Oh, my God, it’s not just that everyone I love is unemployed or underemployed and can’t make their maintenance or their mortgage payments or their rent payments, but now all of a sudden those jerks that were flying around in private helicopters are now flying on private personal jets and they own an island that they go to and they don’t care whether or not our streets are safe,’ then I think we could have massive political disruption.”
• Goodbye "American Greatness:" "Interestingly, one of the surest ways of learning much of which the US is guilty of doing, is by listening to what the US accuses others of doing. This is the US which used parts of its own population who, unaware of anything, were subjected to chemical and biological tests conducted by the US government as it developed its biological weapons program. Part of the tests were conducted as part of the Pentagon’s Project 112 test program. Starting in 1949, the US Army conducted open-air tests of simulated biological organisms over populated areas of the US, even when published medical research proved that the organisms could sicken or kill healthy persons. In 1950, during Operation Sea Spray, San Francisco was secretly sprayed by the US Navy with Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria in a germ warfare test, that led to an outbreak of pneumonia in a hospital, killing at least one person. Nearly every single San Francisco resident inhaled particles from the bacterial fog. Similar tests were conducted across the US, targeting train passengers and Greyhound bus terminals. The effects in San Franscisco evolved, multiplied, and endured to recent years, resulting in contamination of the flu vaccine in 2004. Contrary to claims by the US military, Serratia marcescens is known to be a harmful pathogen. It is now “one of the top 10 causes of all hospital-acquired respiratory, neonatal and surgical infections”. In 1951 another test was conducted in Virginia, where the US Army intentionally exposed a disproportionate number of African Americans to a potentially fatal fungus. In 1966 the US Army conducted a secret germ warfare test in the New York City subway system. Hanta viruses afflicting the American Southwest have also been tied to US military research. This is not to mention all we have learned from declassified documents over the years about US chemical and biological warfare, and plans for such warfare, in Cuba, Vietnam, and China itself during the Korean War. At home though, the US Army is known to have conducted at least 239 secret, open-air germ warfare tests on the US’ own people. Such tests were a deliberate violation of basic principles of the Nuremberg code."
• When we hike Catoctin one of two primary routes there skirts the perimeter of Fort Detrick in Frederick, home of American biowarfare.
• Post-capitalist nightmare or socialist awakening?  
• Hate to say it, and I know I have to bet $1000 to win $1, but I gotta go with post-capitalist nightmare that squashes any socialist awakening like the roaches capitalists see us as, I twaated yesterday or the day before
• On the Democrats rehabilitating George W Bush
• Another Democrats rehabilitating George W Bush
• Avedon Carol's occasional links
• Maggie's weekly links
• This is true: driving 270 to and from Friday and Saturday's hikes, doing 60 in a 55 felt like 30 compared to fucks doing 90
• { feuilleton }'s weekly links 
•  The living and the undead
• When George Harrison visited his sister in southern Illinois in 1963 (in a town that could have been a model for Coover's Brunist novels) 

ONE POSSIBLE MEANING

Charlie Smith

This afternoon the park is filled with brides.

Among varieties of persuasion the big trees turn back toward the forest.

Adventurers gather in side streets.

The police are looking hard at the sky.

Down at the bay, boys trapped in solitude fish.

Girls hike their pants and stare at the wave line,

remembering secrets they once held dear.

The day offers a ridiculous variation as

an excuse for not coming in on time.

Wild imaginings take the place of religion.

Someone who can't swim offers to cook.

We've devised a means for the obstinate children

to be fed, she says, but no one understands this.

We crave affection, but give only advice.

There are walls topped with broken bicycles.

Someone makes an obscene offer and this

is the best we get all day. Oh don't give in

so easily she says, handing over the keys.

We climb the blue fire escape.

We would like to keep going,

skyline climbers, old men remembering their childhood

who devise a few illegal experiences no one wants to try.

It gets to be more than the officers can take.

The park is dusty, dark, yet the children,

ignored all day, play on, convinced their dedication

releases a magic that changes everything.