History of the World, Part 2

(M)an: Dude! Conan O’Brien is organizing a History of the World, Part 2 revival with Mel Brooks starring Don Rickles.  

(D)ude: Man! Revival? History of the World, Part 1 ended with the French Revolution but I always considered that part of the farcical genius of Mel Brooks.   

M: Dude! Contrarily, the epic parody was intentioned to continue but the Reagan Administration wiped out all ambitions by the time the film was released on June 12, 1981 with immediate implementation of supply-side economics that, ironically, an Arab Muslim by the name Ibn Khaldun formulated in the fourteenth century.     

D: Man! Ibn Khaldun? Fourteenth century? When exactly in the 1300s did Ibn Khaldun write down his theory of economics? Is this theory what Americans today allude to as Reaganomics?

M: Dude! Yes. Ibn Khaldun wrote his masterwork Muqaddimah, a truly remarkable first for humanity because it introduced the concept of applying scientific method to social phenomena, in AD 1377. In fact, the Greeks celebrated Ibn Khaldun’s breakthrough achievement by titling the work Ibn Khaldun’s Prolegomena, or “Introduction” because the Muqaddimah was the foundational force for a universal or world history via the creation of social sciences like economics and sociology.    

D: Man! Are there translations of Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah available in English and has the text survived in its original language?

M: Dude! Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah is available in both its original Arabic and a translated version in English edited by N. J. Dawood, the adept bilingual Iraqi scholar who, upon graduating from the University of London and securing a job as a journalist, was commissioned by Penguin Books to translate Thousand and One Nights in 1954 and, after, the Koran, which has never gone out of print and is scheduled to be rereleased with revisions this year! Yes, 2014!

D: Man! Do we know anything about the life of Ibn Khaldun? Or is the interest in the lives of those inhabiting the Afro-Asiatic purposefully overlooked in world history?    

M: Dude! The astute Ibn Khaldun left behind an autobiography, the contents of which have been debated because the writer credits his ancestors with a lot more cultural homogeneity than they actually possessed. Notwithstanding the abounding appreciation across the Afro-Asiatic for Ibn Khaldun’s autobiography, an English translation is not readily available in the United States although you can purchase an Arabic version online.                  

D: Man! What type of cultural homogeneity are we talking about here? Was cultural heterogeneity looked on unfavorably?

M: Dude! Yes. There was a Yemeni Arab tribe that claimed to be descendant from the era of The Prophet Muhammad, to which Ibn Khaldun discriminatingly traced his heritage although academics like Mohammad Enan remained convinced that the celebrated philosopher was of mixed ancestry, or a muwallad in Arabic.            

D: Man! Do you think that Jesus Christ is depicted as virtuous and characteristically unavailing because Matthew, Mark, Lucas, and John wished to convey the sense of not just restraint and respect but keep their Gospels conscionably cryptic and canonical, hence the disinterests in what accordingly was dismissed as apocryphal and unverifiable?

M: Dude! What is verifiable but being overlooked currently so a case against the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Ken Shinseki can be made is that the initial whistleblower Dr. Sam Foote made a shameful revelation of why he even pursued looking into the Veterans Health Administration and assisting in the formulation of a scandal against the Obama Administration to Chris Wallace on the Faux News Channel Sunday, May 18, 2014.

D: Man! Hey! You’re venturing into Dr. Sam Foote’s revelation that he and his supporters want to initiate the privatization of Veterans Affairs by calling for an independent study to be done by the web survey company SurveyMonkey whose clientele include Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, Richard Branson’s Virgin America, and Marc Benioff’s Salesforce.com, along with Samsung and Kraft.

M: Dude! Yes! These companies and their entrepreneurs are very much concerned about losing their monopolistic strength in the global age and, therefore, are willing to hold on to power even if it means siding politically with the United States Republican Tea GOP, who embrace cultural exclusivity of the top earners in society because, otherwise, there would be diversity that would place their services in competition with up and coming starter companies from India and Russia far better design integrity and opportunity for growth than Facebook et al.

D: Man! No wonder these American and UK companies and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Prince Charles make foolish and dastard comparisons between President Vladimir Putin and history’s human monstrosities while overseeing the placement of human monstrosities like BJP and Modi into societies abroad with their own private finances. The Clinton Foundation and the English Royals are entrenched in such corporate muck and are so invested in the pursuit for more and more and more assets that they themselves have transfigured into human monstrosities.

M: Dude! Hillary Rodham Clinton’s brilliance is suffocating in President Clinton’s gloat and greed. The guy really thinks he’s fooling everybody with the Clinton Global Initiative. But there is a price to pay for gloat and greed and President Clinton proves it with a waning intellectual prowess and inflated ego.

D: Man! And those conditions are airborne and communicable with devastating effects like rapider calcification of the falx cerebri running between the two hemispheres of the brain. It is also a defining specification for leaders inside the Republican Tea GOP right now. A lot of Democratic Party leaders are coming down with this condition but there is a meditative antidote to the inherent madness, which is letting go of avarice by envisioning life without acknowledgment and actually letting go of abundance.

M: Dude! Talking about abundance and personal prosperity, Representative Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity really is a blueprint for leading Eurasia and the Afro-Asiatic into an unfathomable abyss about which Pope Francis the First has cautioned piecemeal.

D: Man! The Ryan Budget eliminates cultural exchange programs and the organizations that have inspired and forged the point in history where the United States is at right now, like the Open World Leadership Center and the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue, which the Ryan Budget and Congressional Republicans have deemed redundant and duplicative. That’s unthinkably shallow!

M: Dude! Imagine Paul Ryan advising Pope Francis the First to forgo his excursions, including the historic three-day embracement of the Middle East this past weekend. It is incomprehensible, like John Roberts’ Supreme Court and the Internal Revenue Service strategically condoning sacrilegious activities by the Republican Tea GOP cartels that are fundraising by exploiting the Benghazi, Libya tragedy and our precious sons who we lost, Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.

D: Man! Campaign finance reform and 501(c)(4) revisions are necessary and Americans should be made aware of the power they have that makes Republicans like Speaker of the House John Boehner nervous and that is the power to vote and oust the obstructionist out of office. It is surprising how the Congressional Republicans claim to be preservers of the Constitution of the United States of America but blatantly disregard that President Eisenhower oversaw the rewrite of the Revenue Act of 1913’s social welfare construct that became Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(4).    

M: Dude! I am really concerned about the blasphemous campaign finance fraud and abuse through the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(4). The obstructionist intervention model is being practiced by airlines like United who are experiencing back to back mid air collision scares because air traffic controllers are retiring and newcomers are making errors while the air traffic controller responsible for two aircrafts colliding over the Hudson River August 8, 2009 through gross negligence has been rehired because we the people are subjected mercilessly to the obstructionist injustices of a grossly negligent Republican Tea GOP Congress due to our own abysmal voter turnout especially during midterm elections. But we the people can change that on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 by voting against these Republican Tea GOP leaders who’re subjecting US to the barbarism of congressional immobility combined with an equally reckless Supreme Court.   

D: Man! I just pray for our sons and daughters in uniform. Let them not come into harm’s way because of congressional negligence and double-dealing spokesmen and spokeswomen fixed inside the VFW and IAVA.

M: Dude! Amen!

D: Man! Did you know that Mel Brooks and Don Rickles have not sustained any calcification of the falx cerebri?

M: Dude! Neither has Conan O’Brien! And that’s why all three greats have collaboratively preserved Sid Caesar’s countless performances by digitalizing them with frame-to-frame narrative analysis and a book that Jill Abramson can endorse without hesitation!

"Dyani Dhiraj"

(D)ude: Man! I’m horrified of Democratic President William Jefferson Clinton just as much as Republican Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush. The Clinton Global Initiative and the Bush Foundation are promoting an era of despotic   dissolvent of the federal government to essentially constrict the arteries of multicultural discourse.

(M)an: Dude! Such diversification challenges white privilege, which is flowing into the mainstream of American consciousness right now with the despotically leaning press corps. And the Clinton Foundation and Bush Foundation are partnering in this insurrectionary political strategizing because Bill Clinton and the Bush Dynasty perfected treachery with 1997’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and similarly inadequate and apathetic relief and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.     

D: Man! I’m horrified by Republican Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan’s budget proposal and so is Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Putin is particularly concerned about the United States Republican Tea GOP’s methodology for essentially dissolving international diplomatic relations by selectively eliminating organizations in the name of reducing the United States deficit and balancing the budget.

M: Dude! On pages 25 through 27 in the Path to Prostration, Paul Ryan and the House Budget Committee despots reveal their gross miscalculations regarding domestic and international peace and progress. Beginning with slashing the efforts made since 2010 by the Obama Administration to address energy efficiency and climate change, the Paul Ryan Budget stresses that “the government should not attempt to pick winners and losers in terms of which technologies and companies to favor and advance abroad” but the Republicans in Congress are picking winners and losers regarding technologies and companies to favor and advance abroad and domestically!             

D: Man! The Congressional Republicans under the leadership of Speaker of the House John Boehner have clearly sided with the technologies of companies like Duke Energy’s electric power and natural gas and oil dependence and TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline Project, which transports crude oil and diluted bitumen from Canada, through the United States to the Texas Gulf Coast. And the Republican Party continues to obstruct the pathways of justice by clamoring about the Affordable Care Act because the ACA’s successes only disprove the Republican Tea GOP’s insistence on dismantling the federal government and privatizing services not eliminated by the Paul Ryan Budget.

M: Dude! As far as empowering individual states to decide independently how to deliver services to residents, there is plenty of evidence that injustice is already being rendered in states with Republican governors and legislatures, like in Oklahoma where Governor Mary Fallin continues to heartlessly dismiss taking action towards guaranteeing the construction of storm shelters in every school in the state, even a year after the Moore Tornado proved the efficiency and sensibility of such life-saving constructs.           

D: Man! The Oklahoma Republican majority is blocking all the attempts by Democratic state legislators to enforce corporate taxes in order to fund the installation of storm shelters in the estimated eleven hundred schools in the state that are going without the urgent preventative defense. Not only is Governor Mary Fallin up for reelection on November 4, 2014, both Senators from Oklahoma and all five Oklahoman Representatives in the United States Congress are Republican as is the Attorney General Scott Pruitt who disallowed state taxes to be levied upon corporations.

M: Dude! Therefore, when Mary Fallin refers constituents to their legislators she does so knowing that there is a loophole of obstructionist policymaking thanks to the Oklahoma Republican Party’s obvious political stronghold in the state and in the United States House of Representatives where Speaker John Boehner refuses to extemporaneously answer inquiries from the press corps and, instead, reads scripts prewritten for him by investigative despot and associate editor at The Washington Post Bob Woodward.                     

D: Man! Bob Woodward’s an investigative despot? Then I must add that the Republican Party in this postmodern era of world history is obsolete and despotic and unlike the modern era’s Republicanism, which I think Michael Bloomberg and Senator Bernie Sanders elucidate in their Independent political affiliations. Today’s passé Republicans that took hold of the United States House of Representatives in 2010 utilized tactics like gerrymandering and that unfair redistricting resulted in an influx of horse and buggy halfwits who rudely stained the Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt by claiming to be of the exact sociopolitical brand as they.

M: Dude! Maybe it is time to rename the Democratic Party to reflect a new openness in international dialogue and to allow for Independents like Bloomberg and Sanders to feel comfortable with the new political designation that would bring the Democrats and the Independents into this postmodern era of world history that Pope Francis is attempting to initiate with his cultural sensitivity and heartfelt excursion to the Holy Land presently. Accordingly, Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Sheik Omar Abboud join Pope Francis in this synergistic sojourn.

D: Man! It’s time to rename the Democratic Party “Dyani Dhiraj” and reflect upon  Christopher Columbus pragmatically and abandon cutting and gluing Pilgrim hats and Indian headdresses altogether in kindergarten, knowing the intent of the voyagers was to pillage Old World India, not New World Americas. Dyani means “a deer” in New World Tsimshiau and Dhiraj means “tolerance” in Old World Sanskrit. Speaking of pillagers, Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif will be in attendance at PM-Elect of India Narendra Modi’s inaugural tomorrow.

M: Dude! Have you heard about the ongoing desecration of images and writings of Sikh Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism in Pakistan? The People’s Party of Pakistan’s Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, like Oklahoma Republican Governor Mary Fallin, talks about democracy as a proud practicing despot. As the United States Democratic Party grapples with the insurgency of the Republican Tea GOP’s obstructionism, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and all Americans eligible to vote this November must take a hard look at Indo-Pak’s realities since 1947 and understand that the United States of America is as young too because of New World experiments like itself coming after Old World establishments, like Eurasia.  

D: Man! Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid need to know that if they do not convince people to get out and vote this November, they and their constituents are endangering American Democracy just as much as the Republicans are methodically eviscerating the 1776 Declaration of Independence’s bottom line, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it; and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

M: Dude! The Safety and Happiness of Sikhs in Sindh, Pakistan is further endangered by Narendra Modi’s ascension to PM-Elect of India. It should be noted that the former PM of India Manmohan Singh did not accept an invite to attend Nawaz Sharif’s swearing in following the 2013 Pakistani general election. Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and Narendra Modi are an Indo-Pak fraternity much like how the Congressional Republicans in the United States maneuver, not even acknowledging that all the members of the House of Representatives, including the Republican leadership that includes John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan, are all up for reelection and can easily lose their power if there is high voter turnout nationwide and people refuse to become discouraged, depressed, and despondent in the process of registering to vote and waiting in line to cast their ballot.

D: Man! Courage and Hope and Action! The Supreme Court of the United States and the Internal Revenue Service are strategically condoning, while Facebook and Twitter are unwittingly sponsoring, the Republican Tea GOP and BJP agendas.

M: Dude! Did you read the headline about how the Bharatiya Janata Party and Narendra Modi utilized Twitter’s features to campaign this year, whereas the Indian National Congress and  Rahul Gandhi decided not to engage with the networking giant? Apparently Twitter’s got a Market Director in India and a Political Strategist in Brazil. Coincidentally, the first round in the Brazilian general election is scheduled for October 5, 2014, the last presidential and parliamentary elections in Brazil having taken place in 2010, exactly one month before the United States midterms then that led to the Republican Tea GOP obstructionist mutiny.

D: Man! Do Facebook and Twitter’s CEOs know about the Republican Tea GOP’s obstructionist mutiny? Do they know about the April 12, 2014 bombings in Chhattisgarh, India that coincidentally took the lives of poll officials and police officers? Are they aware of Modi violating election laws, specifically those concerning NOT campaigning once constituents begin reporting to the polling stations in the sixth phase of the election cycle? Coincidentally, Modi set up prerecorded campaign telecasts outside 117 such voting sites, aside from the live video broadcasts with BJP enthusiasts earlier in the election cycle.       

M: Dude! Guru Nanak Dev was born in 1469 and passed away in 1539. Guru Nanak wrote the Sikh Holy Scriptures, known as the Granth and regarded as a living Guru itself since the passing of the tenth and concluding human guru, Guru Gobind Singh, in 1708. Guru Gobind Singh, before his physical departure and spiritual transcendence, directed, “Let all bow before my successor, Guru Granth. The Word is the Guru now.”       

D: Man! Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to refer to the Granth as Guru Granth and Himself, not itself?

M: Dude! Yes, you’re right. To address the Sikh Holy Scriptures directly, people suffix Guru Granth with the following formal titling in respect, Guru Granth Sahib.

D: Man! Guru Granth Sahib?

M: Dude! Guru Nanak Dev incorporated elements and verses from Hinduism and Islam into the Granth and declared himself a Brother rather than a Hindu and Muslim. And upon his departure and spiritual transcendence, he had journeyed through India, Arabia, Persia, Mecca, and Baghdad, as well as embracing Jains, Buddhists, Parsees and their Holy Scriptures too.

D: Man! Guru Nanak was an interfaith spokesperson!

M: Dude! You can include a lot more people if you use interpath dialogue. Upon Guru Nanak’s departure and spiritual transcendence, mourners argued whether to cremate or bury the body. But when they pulled back the shroud, there remained no remains, only two sets of flowers that both sectors had agreed to lay upon the body overnight. So the mourners decided to divide the shroud and bury half of it while cremating the other half. 

D: Man! Interpath intervention!

GOP's Honky-Tonk Rewrites c/o Dick and Lynne Cheney 2014

(M)an: Dude! Karl Marx’s emphasis on revolution bringing forth a classless society is intriguing but most likely misinterpreted via a deliberate mistranslation by demagogues in order to fit the concepts to their personal advantages and prosperity. Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity is evidence of that corrupt, exploitive mentality.    

(D)ude: Man! So concerning what is the truth and what is the demagoguery, the Republican Party’s a defective and deceptive brand entrenched in destruction and death of the working classes and the poor to the point of instability and animosity, at which point the bourgeoisie commit the proletariat and those beneath even the proletariat to penitentiaries or other institutions of lower and limited functioning?

M: Dude! Yes! And the crux of the mistranslation by demagogues is the cornerstone of an effective business plan. Marx meant to stress a classless mentality, not necessarily a classless society, which would take humanity into an era of diversity and innovation.   

D: Man! What does a classless mentality have to do with an effective business plan? Wait! Does the bourgeoisie have to tolerate sitting and coexisting with proletarians like US in public spaces?

M: Dude! You’re onto something there. I was reading about the bourgeoisie owning property and the proletariat defining its significance in specialized skills sets that bring in specific range of wages and salaries, which then can be invested in maintaining a lifestyle that not just addresses personal care but the possibilities of familial development and a movement forward towards betterment.

D: Man! Is the Republican Tea GOP a bad business model in that it chooses to tear apart the social safety networks that define US?  

M: Dude! If you study Wikipedia’s series on organized labor, there is a section on Roman law and the Constitution of the Roman Republic, which specified social class distinctions according to how much property individuals owned. This information was used to determine one’s voting privileges and military duties, the lower classers voting after the higher classers had essentially decided matters for everyone by casting ballots earlier because of their advantageous station economically, which also determined how much armor and the caliber of protective gear and weaponry one was entitled to in battle, generally the lower classes receiving the lesser armor and the least arms.

D: Man! Oh! Bob Drury and Tom Calvin’s biography of Red Cloud is rigged with misinformation and the misfortune of attempting to blame both the Native Americans and the United States Army officers evenly for the massacres, alluding to the Native Americans pejoratively throughout and then pulling an “NRA” in the epilogue.          

M: Dude! Does an “NRA” have to do with the National Rifle Association’s evangelical ignorance towards matters concerning gun reform legislation in the United States of America? Like how Jimmy Swaggart’s wife and panelists on the Sonlife Broadcasting Network feign incomprehension themselves when criticized but then ruthlessly address critical callers as philistines. I know, that last word is quite controversial and I despise it for various reasons, but primarily because it is utilized at all in defining the uncultured and barbaric.        

D: Man! Bob Drury and Tom Calvin label the Native Americans and Red Cloud disparagingly the same way the crooked Swaggarts and their crooked panelists deem themselves enlightened and their faultfinders incomprehensible and unlearned.  

M: Dude! I’m convinced that the people who heralded the term philistine were swaggering philanderers like Jimmy Swaggart and monstrously prejudicial like Darrell Issa and thoroughly unthinking like Marco Rubio.

D: Man! The Native Americans won Red Cloud’s War, the only war lost by the United States in its history to an American Indian uprising. Of course, despite visiting the White House as well as taking on speaking engagements in New York City in 1870, Red Cloud could not negotiate a treaty with the United States because of the railroad expansion that was underway. It was like the situation with the Native American sacred lands that the Keystone XL Pipeline is being pushed through by the Republican Tea GOP.      

M: Dude! The Republican Tea GOP House of Representatives under Speaker John Boehner’s leadership is dead set with the Keystone XL Pipeline obstructing the Ogallala Aquifer in middle of the Great Plains Region of the United States and there are countless suburban neighborhoods along the Ogallala Aquifer alongside the American Indian reservations and sacred Native tribal lands.    

D: Man! The United States of America did not negotiate fairly with the Native Americans and even violated the terms of the agreements that were made. And the American Press Corps was just as shifty and shady in its reporting then. Reminds me now of the way headlines and newscasters proclaim ruthlessly that President Obama and the Democratic Party are confirmed losers in the midterm elections that are to be held nationwide on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.

M: Dude! There are diamonds like Jill Abramson, nevertheless! The male bosses at The New York Times most likely felt intellectually challenged and ethically eclipsed by Jill Abramson, which led to what a lot are calling her demise. I, however, disagree. I believe Jill Abramson confronted insiders about preeminent periodicals being bought by the Koch Brothers, and Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney basically contributing to a honky-tonk history the Republican Tea GOP honky-tonkers like the Cheneys are trying to rewrite. The New York Times recently made Lynne Cheney’s honky-tonk about James Madison a notable book and Jill Abramson chose not to conspire in endorsing that honky-tonk as an executive editor.  

D: Man! Jill Abramson needs to construct an online newsmagazine or newspaper or both! She is a force of nature for all aspiring feminists. I admire her genius, especially after the commencement address she gave on Monday at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She said that her father raised her to anticipate not just accomplishments and successes, but how enduring setback after setback created strength and resiliency.    

M: Dude! Chris Wallace interviewed the Cheneys this Sunday. Wallace kept asking Dick and Lynne Cheney for bricks and mortar but kept getting apples and broccoli in return.   

D: Man! What does a classless mentality have to do with an effective business plan?

M: Dude! The bankers, loan officers, small investors, strategic investors, and venture capitalists that you address as your audience in your business plan are crucial. However, Michael Miller’s 2002 classic Business Plans in 24 Hours does not address the need for you the entrepreneur to actually embrace the product yourself as a potential consumer. And two businesspeople come to mind who have embraced their creations and actively sought out solutions to their own specific visions and quirks: Steve Jobs and Tamara Mellon.    

D: Man! How are Steve Jobs and Tamara Mellon exemplary of what you believe to be the cornerstone to good business?   

M: Dude! Steve Jobs gave the world meticulously superb technological breakthroughs that he utilized and as a result improved, while Tamara Mellon actually wears the fashion she meticulously designs so that she can relate one-to-one with her clients.

D: Man! I remember a time in the 1980s when companies produced top quality appliances like kitchen centers with the blender and the dough kneading gadgets and the sewing machines that lasted forever. But brands like Oster and Singer don’t produce appliances that hardy anymore.

M: Dude! Does your mother still have her 1982 model Oster kitchen center? She’s still got the 1984 Singer sewing machine too, no?

D: Man! Yeah. My father bought my mother the latest kitchen center with the noodle maker and the mixing bowl gadgetry two years ago. But she only displays the new kitchen center, resorting to getting out the old 1982 model Oster and its accessories from the cupboards whenever there’s something to be prepared.  

M: Dude! Didn’t a neighboring relative come by and demonstrate a stitch on the 1984 Singer sometime that year and accidentally ran the machine between two fingers?

D: Man! It was an avuncular relation in fact. You know, my mother was in middle of preparing the ingredients for a cake with the 1982 model recently when another avuncular relation dropped by with a parcel from yet another avuncular relation. You know, my mother’s father’s got too many brothers! I’m not lying!

M: Dude! And?

D: Man! And what?

M: Dude! Finish the avuncular disquisition.

D: Man! Well, the avuncular relation with the parcel strolled into the kitchen recently and asked my mother whether she was deterring a break-in with antiquated appliances on display. The drapes were parted and he was certain that my mother was making the case for her home to be deemed unfavorably by passersby.

M: Dude! Remind me to recommend to your mother that she replace those drapes. They’re so luminous that I cannot help but sleuth about myself.

Man! Dude! Session #282: Reba Couture Spring 2014

(D)ude: Man! Don Jones will be completing sensitivity training before he is allowed back into activities with the Miami Dolphins football team. I think Donald and Shelly Sterling would be appropriately placed if they too had to attend the training Don Jones will be participating in.

(M)an: Dude! The bloodthirsty Republican Party is in need of that very same sensitivity training, not to mention the bloodless American Press Corps and the cold-blooded University of North Dakota students who chose Koch over civility as well.

D: Man! There does seem to be a methodology to the sudden influx of obscenities. It’s like David and Charles Koch are infiltrating their brand of corporate chauvinism everywhere the youth of the United States—and other decisive voters for the 2014 election midterms in the United States—conference, in front of the television mainly.

M: Dude! What about radio and online newsmakers? This is the time for MTV and Lady Gaga and Comedy Central and Jon Stewart to revamp and reissue the “Rock the Vote” campaign! Redemption is always there for the taking during midterms and voter outreach and mobilization needs big names and iconic faces.

D: Man! The nonpartisan nonprofit Rock the Vote survived the 2004 allegations made by the Republican Party about it falsely claiming during that presidential election cycle that the George Walker Bush Administration was seriously considering reinstating the military draft.     

M: Dude! The truth was that Rock the Vote was only trying to spark consciousness in an otherwise numb electorate, but it was not successful in reawakening the young eligible voters that year and George Walker Bush won reelection. Obviously, the Supreme Court too played a hand in bringing Bush #43 back into the office of the presidency unelected a second time.

D: Man! Yeah, but what about the public service announcements being passed around by that nonpartisan nonprofit organization featuring then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s signature at the bottom of a document promoting a possible military draft?

M: Dude! Rock the Vote only wanted to bring forth enlightened conversation about Army General John M. Keane’s remark to Congress, before his retirement in 2003, about how adding 50,000 troops would entail returning to the draft!   

D: Man! Is that right? Then why is the Republican Party intent on not reading the over twenty-five thousand pages worth of documentation gathered thus far in the Benghazi, Libya tragedy? Why aren’t they constructing educated insights about the words committed to paper so far? Clearly, the Republican Party has been unsuccessful in tracking down a congressional intern with the reading comprehension necessary to produce supplemental notes and graphs that Representative Paul Ryan or Senator John McCain can then waft in the faces of those who have read the original papers in their entirety, like former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry.    

M: Dude! But, of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton is being questioned and criticized over the veracity of the concussion she sustained in December of 2012. The Republican Party is trying to level the playing field to their lowly standards of conduct and conduciveness. But Hillary Rodham Clinton is far more dignified and brilliant than any of the Republican Party’s membership. There is fortitude and finesse in Hillary Rodham Clinton, whereas these Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and Jeb Bush candidates for 2016 are laughable fools with extraordinary fraudulence.       

D: Man! Speaking of extraordinariness, did you read Chelsea Clinton’s recent interview with Lynn Sherr in Parade Magazine? No? Well, the former First Daughter, mother-to-be is abrasive, hence self-injurious, retelling the time when she was standing in line at a coffee shop in New York City and, “I ordered a coffee with two shots of espresso, because I was very tired. And this guy said, ‘Chelsea, you seem like such an interesting person, and that’s such a boring drink’ and I said, ‘I’m so sorry, sir. You know, I drink coffee for the caffeine and because I like the taste, not because I think I need to be, you know, expressing myself’.. But moments like that are also privileges, when people share their thoughts or their questions or their ideas. And it gives me a window, in some ways, into the zeitgeist.”    

M: Dude! If my father were president and my mother insisted that I learn the names of all the members of the United States Congress and whosoever before attending any official gala, I would be lost in a superficiality and pain too intense for composure. I think the curtness is due to an absence of happiness. Being presented publically before the cameras since birth, I think Chelsea Clinton cannot respond genuinely to even herself and hasn’t been able to overcome the callous remarks by others that come with an awkward adolescence, although I do believe she has proved herself a swan nevertheless.      

D: Man! Remember my awkwardness during adolescence? I have to admit my self-esteem was buried beneath the earth. Like ginger rhizomes, my facial acne was unruly and unbecoming. That’s probably why I’m down-to-earth and soft-spoken, that and not having to endure perpetual attention.    

M: Dude! You’re down-to-earth? You’re soft-spoken? Endure perpetual attention? Although, I do agree with the final point, I must say I have not met anyone with as much conceit as you! You, and that feline that I have to skedaddle off every morning over by the neighbors’ birdfeeders, are self-indulgent.    

D: Man! Everybody in the United States must combat fate’s cruelties being spread right now by the backstabbing and dishonest Republican Party. Every American Voter must register to vote and then vote regularly up until Election Day November 4, 2014, a Tuesday. The wilting leaves of democracy need to be replenished with a wholesome dose of an influx of representative government where ordinary folks take back their enfranchisement, return to embracing diversity and deliverance, not doubt and destruction.         

M: Dude! The electorate needs to shout out and sound off at the ballot boxes this year! This election cycle, the privileged elite is anticipating that everyday people will not figure out the fact that all the 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for reelection, including obstructionists like Wisconsin Rep Paul Ryan and Ohio Rep John Boehner and Virginia Rep Eric Cantor. That’s why Republican Party members are clamoring to hold onto their positions inside the House of Representatives. If the American people decide to register to vote in these upcoming 2014 midterms, they can take back their rights by voting out obstructionists that are blocking the President of the United States from doing the work the American people popularly and overwhelmingly reelected him to do two years ago.  

D: Man! I don’t understand how Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad acclaim and now recognized for dazzlingly playing President Lyndon Baines Johnson on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre until June 29, 2014, can say the things he says to Parade Magazine’s Mark K. Updegrove in the April 27, 2014 issue about President Barack Obama, especially when the title of the article exploring Cranston’s successes is “You Need a Healthy Dose of Luck”.. This is what Bryan Cranston said President Barack Obama can learn from President LBJ, “There are two things LBJ had that our current president doesn’t have. One is extensive experience in Congress. By the time he became vice president, Johnson not only knew everyone, he knew what his or her pet projects were. So he was ready to make deals and trades. ‘You support me on this, I’m going to give you that bridge.’ [laughs] The second thing is the [political] climate. In LBJ’s time, politicians knew they’d have to cross the aisle: ‘Our philosophies might be opposite, but I’m going to try to work with them.’ And what we have now is a digging-your-heels-in: ‘they are trying to hurt the country. Only our way is the right way’—whether you’re in the Republican or Democratic camp. It is so polarizing and distrustful and disrespectful.”

M: Dude! Two words came up in my mind while you read that quote, male and white, two traits that I’m pretty sure the two of US share with Bryan Cranston the actor, right? 

D: Man! Yeah! The guy is the meth-madman from Breaking Bad! Remember?

M: Dude! Two lives flashed before my eyes while you read Bryan Cranston’s words aloud, Sylvia Plath and her masterpiece The Bell Jar’s heroine Esther Greenwood.

D: Man! Sylvia Plath? Who is The Bell Jar’s heroine Esther Greenwood?

M: Dude! Sylvia Plath’s quasi-autobiographical novel about the thin line between sincerity and insincerity that upsets her heroine Esther Greenwood in and out of the present tense from page 86 onwards, brings to bare the interpersonal affecting the intrapersonal alarmingly, particularly the strain of competitiveness that clutches male specimens, and is directed detrimentally towards their female counterparts, who feel suffocated inside an overturned bell jar.            

D: Man! Is that so? Then I’ve got a totally new interpretation of the Hillary Rodham Clinton that had her daughter study the names of statesmen and stateswomen. I’m rethinking and believing that President Bill Clinton actually requested that their only child Chelsea be groomed to remember such astonishing breadth and depth of detail about her sociopolitical surrounds.

M: Dude! I remember how memorizing the multiplication tables made me develop an edgy temperament in the third grade, particularly when it came to the number 16 and its details. In fact, I was overwhelmingly confused whenever there was a wedding in the family because of everyone’s refusal to avail table designations, a practice that was considered too far-fetched for such a familiar and frequent occasioning.

D: Man! Far-fetched, familiar, and frequent summon into mind that Reba McEntire song “Fancy”.. Speaking of Reba, the women of ABC News and Stephen Colbert carry about on television in Reba couture, you know? In fact, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fashion sense has me questioning whether she has the same stylists and seesaw politics as the ABC Newswomen. As for Stephen Colbert, he’s catapulted himself up in hot air deceptiveness, a bona fide conservative gasbag.            

M: Dude! While Hillary Rodham Clinton took on the responsibility of seeing Chelsea achieve such incredible intellectual acrobatics, President Clinton reveled in the role of the popular and preferred parent?

D: Man! Yeah! So does The Bell Jar’s Esther Greenwood, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, take on the role of the responsible rector in her family life?

M: Dude! It is unclear as to whether or not Esther Greenwood goes on to marry and become a mother. But the one clear certainty that grips Esther Greenwood is the need women professionals in all disciplines, particularly medicine, especially psychiatry. And Sylvia Plath presents the issue brilliantly through the characters of Esther’s childhood acquaintance and boyfriend Buddy Willard and Esther’s female physician Doctor Nolan.

D: Man! How so?

M: Dude! Well, Buddy Willard is the composite male companion persuading Esther Greenwood to marry him and Doctor Nolan is the composite female collaborator encouraging Esther Greenwood to embrace her independence and not be afraid. 

D: Man! Esther’s afraid? 

M: Dude! Surprisingly, Buddy Willard is responsible for the plaque that cuts short Esther Greenwood’s homely idealism and prompts the feminist within to burgeon.

D: Man! How is Buddy responsible?

M: Dude! Esther Greenwood and Buddy Willard’s first major fallout is physical and on a ski slope at Mount Pisgah in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. On Page 98, Sylvia Plath unleashes the truth, the venom inside Buddy Willard for Esther Greenwood’s accomplishments. You see, Esther learns skiing basics from Buddy and then excels beyond expectation upon her first lone attempt downhill on skis.

D: Man! She did not get all giddy and vainglorious after the initial success?

M: Dude! Yes, Esther Greenwood does get giddy and vainglorious after her successful first attempt downhill alone. So much so, she gathers the strength to go back up and attempt a second time, the only point in the book where Sylvia Plath allows her heroine to indulge in happiness and a self-esteem boost.

D: Man! How does the venom ooze out of Buddy Willard’s pores?

M: Dude! Esther Greenwood breaks her left leg in an accident on her second attempt and the people around her inform her of how she was intercepted by Buddy Willard, the reason for her fall and fractures.

D: Man! Fractures?

M: Dude! Esther Greenwood informs Buddy Willard, the then-medical student, that she is going to go for a third attempt, this is the final exchange they have at the end of chapter eight,

“I’m going up,” I said. “I’m going to do it again.”

“No you’re not.”

A queer, satisfied expression came over Buddy’s face.

“No, you’re not,” he repeated with a final smile. “Your leg’s broken in two places. You’ll be stuck in a cast for months.”

D: Man! I’ve seen the queer, satisfied expression come over the Republican Party leaders’ faces whenever they accuse President Obama for the problems that they themselves created! Through obstructionist tactics—like sequestration and endless mindless loopholes by which to satisfy their billionaire donors—the Republican Party postpones calculatedly all the decision-making and negotiating needing to be addressed just so they can write disparagingly about President Obama in the history books.

M: Dude! The Democratic Party is conspiring with the billionaire Republican donors because of an ingrained prejudice and intellectual envy that President Obama and his Administration are able to regroup after every derailment by the Buddy Willard-like characters in the United States Congress.

D: Man! President Clinton could become a Doctor Nolan and encourage. Didn’t Chelsea Clinton recently receive a doctorate from Oxford?

M: Dude! Doctor Clinton could encourage as well. I really wish she would. Wouldn’t it be beautiful if she did?

D: Man! Never regress with success! For sure!

"I pity the fish downstream." Sam Houston, 1854.

(M)an: Dude! What are you reading?

(D)ude: Man! Andrew C. McCarthy III has written a book due out next month about impeaching President Obama for basically hiring advisors who will assist him with the gridlock from Congressional Republicans under the leadership of Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.   

M: Dude! The British Daily Mail tabloid has compared President Obama to British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and The Weekly Standard has reported that the Democratic Party in the United States is fundraising off that McCarthy book, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment.  

D: Man! The American Press is not picking up on the fact that Andrew C. McCarthy’s book is being recommended alongside literary hates Glenn Beck, Dr. Ben Carson, Timothy Sandefur, Dinesh 

D’Souza, and Charles Murray.  

M: Dude! Glenn Beck’s in the news as of late because that backwoodsman Republican Representative from Texas Louie Gohmert is certain that Comcast’s David Cohen is conspiring to keep Beck from airing his network The Blaze, while, according to the intellectually challenged and tongue-tied, by his own ranting remember, Gohmert insisting, “And it was reported that Al Jazeera wanted to get their Sharia law push into the United States, and they were willing to pay big bucks… but they wouldn’t do the deal unless Comcast was willing to keep them in its list of networks provided. So it was reported Comcast agreed, so Al Gore got all that oil and carbon based money. Then, that kept Glenn Beck off the air. Of Comcast.”

D: Man! Dr. Ben Carson’s been in the news a lot since appearing on Sean Hannity’s Faux News Channel show in March of 2013 with this offensive charge, “Marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality—it doesn’t matter what they are, they don’t get to change the definition.”

M: Dude! Timothy Sandefur’s got a couple of books listed  alongside the abovementioned chumps online on Amazon. Here Sandefur offers a start to the impeachment nonsense, on January 16, 2014, “The clash between the classical liberalism of the Constitution—which holds that individual rights are primary, and democracy is secondary, and limited by individual rights—and the “wolf’s view” of politics—which holds the power of the majority as primary, and sees rights as privileges given to the individual by the majority—persisted into the twentieth century. Although the Court had dealt the deathblow to the Privileges or Immunities Clause, it did continue, in a limited way, to protect individual rights under the Due of Law Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This was through the doctrine now called “Substantive Due Process”… (In Chapters 3 and 4 of The Conscience of The Constitution, I explain why Substantive Due Process is the correct reading of the Due Process Clause—notwithstanding the mountains of scorn heaped on it by both left and right. But I won’t repeat that here, since I touched on the issue when I last guest-blogged here, and also wrote about it at Cato Unbound two years ago.)… The focus of the clash was never so much the concept of “substantive due process”—which was almost universally accepted until the New Deal Era—as it was over the nature of sovereignty and the relationship between liberty and democracy.”

D: Man! Huh? Sounds like the instructors from the Koch Institute for Management are all invested in the Inurbane Studies specialization especially. In fact, I overheard that Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida is the first distinguished graduate in the Inurbane Studies curriculum. Did you hear Rubio’s senseless, baseless disregard towards climate change being a human phenomenon and spearheading with Robert M. Gates an effort to reinstate the war on terrorism?    

M: Dude! This is what Republican Senator Marco Rubio had to say last week about EPA regulations via implementation of the Clean Air Act, “Here’s what we need to do as policy makers—because that’s what the president is, he’s not a meteorologist. He’s proposing a certain set of policies that he would have to admit, if questioned, will do nothing if in fact these scientists are right and it’s greenhouse gas emissions that are changing our climate, none of the things he’s proposing would do anything to change whatsoever, but it would have a devastating impact on our economy.”   

D: Man! Marco Rubio’s economy is the same as that of David and Charles Koch, and the average American cannot empathize with such nonsense coming from such hooeys  as Marco Rubio, who is considering running for the presidency in 2016 as well as provoking Islamic fundamentalists to recommit to invading our beloved country, “Vast, ungoverned spaces have opened up in Syria where the government doesn’t control the territory and it increasingly has become the premiere operational space on the planet for radical jihadists to train and operate. I will make a prediction to you tonight that if things continue the way they are, soon we will see attacks staged against our interests and, God forbid, perhaps even our homeland from those ungoverned spaces in Syria. What happens with these problems around the world is they eventually come for us.”

M: Dude! And you said that Bob Gates said something similar to what Rubio is proclaiming?

D: Man! This is how Robert Gates resurrected, on Face The Nation yesterday, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon and, I earnestly believe, has ushered in another era of the Bush Dynasty, this time Jeb Bush being the major emphasis for the next presidential election cycle, “Nixon and Kissinger I think don't get the credit they deserve for diverting attention from our loss in Vietnam by their initiatives with the Soviet Union and China in the early 1970s, which sent the message to the rest of the world, We may have had this problem in Vietnam, but the United States is still going to be the preeminent superpower in this world. And we're still going to be in the catbird seat when it comes to dealing with the major powers. Unfortunately, there aren't opportunities like that right now. And the more the only message people hear is that we're coming home and we're going to do nation building at home, the more they wonder whether we will be there for them if they're needed, if we're needed.”

M: Dude! What about the atrocious stories of George Walker Bush’s foreign policy? Bob Gates calls President Obama’s foreign policy a sad low point, but what about our sons and daughters in uniform and their best interests? Do we send them in the clutches of death and devastation just because Assad is ruthlessly annihilating his own people with chemical attacks? It’s not like Assad is living a life devoid of chaos and unrest himself. Robert Gates and Marco Rubio and the Republican establishment are refocused on immobilizing if not annihilating everybody that has not been baptized like vacating Governor of Texas Rick Perry did last month in the same creek that Sam Houston emerged out of after his baptism in 1854 and professed, “I pity the fish downstream.”    

D: Man! Rick Perry upset an entire ecosystem in order to reconnect with the Lord? Those black-rimmed glasses cannot fool anyone! Rick Perry has just as much gas upstairs as he has shares in the adult film industry through shares in the movie rental franchise Movie Gallery. This is the true nature of the Republican Party: Cannot get around without fooling around!

M: Dude! What about the Benghazi, Libya hearings being scheduled by the Select Committee headed by South Carolina Republican Representative Harold Watson “Trey” Gowdy III? Should the Democrats be boycotting the hearings before they’re even launched?   

D: Man! No. No. No. The Benghazi hearings should not be boycotted. The Republican Party will win the 2014 midterms, as they did the 2010 midterms, if the Democrats do not support President Obama and his administration unconditionally. 

M: Dude! I believe the Democrats are just as intolerant and racist towards the President and his administration as the Republican Party. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are insincere in their efforts to combat the hatred and the mythology that the Koch Brothers have invested over nine figures into already. I believe the last time I read, David and Charles Koch had plans to pour in at least $125M.

D: Man! I’m suspecting that the Koch Brothers have infiltrated the Democratic Party leadership too. Darrell Issa and Trey Gowdy are one and the same: Faces change, but evil remains. A rotten egg is a rotten egg! The sulfuric mayhem it exhibits remains no matter how many times you think you can fight the odor anew with another spoiled egg that is essentially built to fail odorously.

M: Dude! There’s one quote by Bob Gates from yesterday’s Face The Nation that you overlooked and that I would like to emphasize. Robert M. Gates said something quite curious about the real threat facing the United States in the following assertion, “I think the greatest national security threat to this country at this point is the two square miles that encompasses the Capitol building and the White House… If we can't get some of our problems solved here at home, if we can't get our finances in a more ordered fashion, if we can't begin to tackle some of the internal issues that we have, if we can't get some compromises on the Hill that move the country forward, then I think these foreign threats recede significantly into, as far as being a risk to the well-being and the future of this country.”

D: Man! There was a White House security breach over the weekend, did you know?

M: Dude! Do you think the Republican Party is poised to attack and retreat upon the President’s premises?

D: Man! I think the Democratic Party leadership and membership resents President Obama’s outlook and optimism too.

M: Dude! Which brings US to the last two authors associated with Andrew C. McCarthy III, Dinesh D’Souza and Charles Murray.

D: Man! Dinesh D’Souza has said a lot against the “cultural left” including the following about how 9/11 is primarily the responsibility of the “cultural left”… “The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11 ... the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the non-profit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.”

M: Dude! Charles Alan Murray is the co-author of Paul Ryan’s second favorite all-time read, after Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged of course, and that is The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.  

D: Man! Page 127 of Charles Murray’s pseudoscientific brouhaha states, “But it should also be noted that young white adults who marry are seldom in poverty, even if they are below average in intelligence or education. Even in these more complicated analyses, low IQ continues to be a much stronger precursor of poverty than the socioeconomic circumstances in which people grow up.”

M: Dude! Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were too shortsighted to become Democrats. That’s why both insensate goons turned to the neoconservative party tilting, Ryan making numerous office visits to his professor Richard Hart, the libertarian who introduced the perpetual sophomoric inarticulate to the National Review and secured him an internship with Wisconsin Republican Senator Bob Kasten where Ryan picked up his foreign affairs know-not and whatnots.

D: Man! Excellent point! Governor Thomas Kean came to show and tell, or career day, at Christie’s junior high school, which lit the neoconservative gaslight in the dim lit twit.

M: Dude! Chris Christie placed the blame on President Obama for New Jersey’s failing economy, “What we’re being told initially is that this is the effect of the change in the law at the end of 2012 by the Obama administration and the Congress to increase tax rates on upper-level individuals”…

D: Man! The Republican Governor of Kansas Sam Brownback is also placing the blame for his state’s bond rating downgrade on President Obama’s shoulders too! This is what he had to say in a statement from his office, “What we are seeing today is the effect of tax increases implemented by the Obama administration that resulted in lower income tax payments and a depressed business environment. The failed economic policies of the Obama administration are affecting states throughout the nation.”

M: Dude! What about the Republican Governors’ Association’s latest campaign entitled, American Comeback? Their latest online two-timing claims, “The answers are not coming from Washington. Republican Governors are driving America’s comeback.”

D: Man! They’re only roasting marshmallows while the billionaires roast them with bundles of dollar bills stuffed in their mouths. And I’m suspecting Democrats are aligning themselves conveniently against President Obama because they too are being guaranteed underhanded fortunes for their surrendering principles and ethics.

M: Dude! The price only needs to be right in order to deflate the fight! The threats to the White House are coming from the neoconservatives, not Islamists!

D: Man! And George W. Bush needs to be retroactively dismissed from the presidency!

M: Dude! Pray for US!

Happy Mother's Day 2014: Wishing you joy and happiness with a lot of love and prayers throughout the year...

“Creator Of This Universe!”

Look at my face,

Today, on my lips, what a beautiful smile!

Today, in my eyes, what a sparkle!

Looking at my smile, what came to your mind?

In my brimming eyes, did you see anything?

About this beautiful moment,

You must have known!

And the magnificence of this occasion,

You must have believed in!

Yes!

You guessed right!

Yes!

Today, I have delivered a life!

Parveen Shakir (24 November 1952 - 26 December 1994)

Translated from the Urdu by M.S. Alverston, 03/01/11.

 

“The Remainder of the Journey”

“It’s too cold, Mama!

Just for a little while longer,

Don’t let go of my hand!”

[Mom’s Thinking]:

Shivering in the winterish winds

Embracing me, you were saying…

Not too many days have elapsed

That the warmth of my lap

Gave you comfort,

With arms around my neck,

You were fast asleep,

And I slept on one side of my body

With you beside me as a babe,

Afraid to interrupt your sleep!

Holding the hem of my dress,

Strolling about the house,

Just like a butterfly!

But soon again,

You received an invitation from

The birds, flowers, and your friends

To be with them!

After accompanying them,

You released my finger

And embraced the beautiful

Garden of life and blended in

Like a fragrance!

Afterwards, holding your satchel

Full of dreams, you went to school

Where colors, words, numbers,

And games awaited you and

Charmed your heart!

Your teachers were more reliable,

And your friends were more charming

Than I!

I know that I have been left

Far behind your journey!

For the rest of my journeying,

I have to back away.

In your precious world,

New people will be joining you everyday.

And, very quietly, I will be vacating

Spaces for them.

Your face keeps on glowing with

The elegance of age.

I am fading in the background.

Not many days will pass

When the mild warmth of my hands

Will become memory.

And the elegant feeling,

Of a delicate hand holding yours,

Will blossom!

My heart will part with you.

And for the remainder of my life,

I promise to keep looking in your direction.

I am a mother,

And it is my fate to embrace

These brilliant transformations!

Parveen Shakir (24 November 1952 - 26 December 1994)

Translated from the Urdu by M.S. Alverston, 03/01/11.