Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated by the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Pages 342-343

“That Dawn Will Soon Be Here”

That dawn will be arriving soon

When the veil will be lifted finally,

Loosened from the tenebrous folds of centuries-long oppression

When the clouds of suffering will dissolve

And the ocean of happiness will pour forth generously

When the sky shall gather up the clouds of solace and start dancing

And the earth shall too be singing songs

That dawn will be arriving soon

For which we live to die for gallantly

For that ambrosial dawn we persevere to quaff,

Even if mere cups of poison to antidote afterwards

Bestow your graciousness over these hungry, thirsty souls someday

That dawn will be coming soon

I do believe that until then, it is of no value

To you whatsoever to long for our desires, which are worth their weight in gold

Despite that even dirt contains some priceless valuation, whilst humanity’s value is zilch.

That dawn will be arriving soon

When the dignity of human beings will not be weighed by counterfeit money.

When in exchange for money, a female’s chastity or honor will not be advertised or grounds for aversion!

When this world becomes ashamed for these misdeeds, that dawn will have arrived.

These days of hunger and unemployment ultimately shall pass.

These idols of reigning wealth will shatter in the end.

When the foundations of an extraordinary world are raised, then that dawn will have arrived

When the helplessness of old age does not have to heave dust upon the desolate pathway

When the innocence of childhood does not have to beg upon the filthy streets

That day when the ones asking for their rights won’t be condemned to death

That dawn will be arriving soon

That day when humanity will no longer burn over the pyre of starvation

When in the hellish pit of the palpitating heart, yearning cannot be burnt

When these obscenities of the world, worse than hell, halt

Heaven shall return to earth

That dawn will soon be here!

Part Two:

That dawn indeed! That dawn will come about by our efforts!

Indeed, we will bring upon that dawn

When these lands will adopt a new course

When the captive will be discharged from captivity

When houses of evil come into view and break open

When bondage of oppression has collapsed

Indeed, we will make that dawn a universal reality by our efforts!

When through an abominably skeletal congress, society manages to maneuver support

When that oppression is no longer nourished

When hands cannot be bound

When dignity cannot be tossed about

When governments all over the world will be able to serve without the imprisonment of societies

Indeed, that dawn will come by measurable outcomes!

When the world’s entire hardworking labor force shall be granted collective bargaining before they set off to work the mills and fields

Homeless people shall be no longer without means for food and shelter and efficacy

Helpless people will emerge from out of their burrowed boroughs

World will be adorned in peace and prosperity

Indeed, that dawn shall become reality by our undivided efforts!

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated by the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Man! Dude! Session #209

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

(D)ude: Man! Initially, I was in that anticipatory mode for something substantial like War and Peace, but settled for anything practical that would keep my mind from Dr. Seuss and Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s blatant lies like having been served green eggs and ham by his father while growing up either in Canada as he probably did, or wherever.

M: Dude! Andrea Mitchell interviewed former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and Hutchinson began to rework those straight-faced untruths about the Affordability Care Act leading to the “diminishing of care” and “lack of protection” in the marketplace approach that the healthcare law has embraced to allow for the conservative principles of competition and choice to kick in to make the process of universal coverage in the United States not just survive, but to expand and improve as well.

D: Man! Former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson is just as arrogantly certain of a Republican GOP takeover of both houses of congress in the 2014 midterms as John Boehner who too is just wanting to sit and wait for the aftermath of the Shelby County Supreme Court decision to take effect, clearly confident that additional gerrymandering and voter suppression allowances will result in corporate America’s selfish and undemocratic autocratic system of governance.

M: Dude! The Supreme Court of the United States never handed down the decrees of Citizens United and Shelby County when Reagan and Clinton were in office. Therefore, President Obama needs to enforce Constitutional Amendment 14, specifically section 4 which states, “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

D: Man! When did gerrymandering spin out of control?

M: Dude! It originates in the time of James Madison and Patrick Henry, circa 1788, when the later redrew Virginia’s 5^th district to keep the former from entering into the U.S. House of Representatives. So, to redraw a district in the name of public good and equal representation amongst all groups of American constituents is mere mythology. There was, however an attempt after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to implement “affirmative gerrymandering” in which attempts to reduce racial and ethnic minority groups’ political influence were rendered legitimate corruption.

D: Man! The districts that have resulted from gerrymandering are called gerrymanders, are they not? Then, why are we so insistent upon calling redistricted outcomes districts and not gerrymanders?

M: Dude! In 2010, the Tea Party Republicans infiltrated the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson knowingly supported her successor Ted Cruz for the office she vacated back then. She can, therefore, huff and puff her way out of confrontation for her then hardy support for Ted Cruz for Senate campaign, but without her sharing the blame for the way the GOP brand has dissipated and dilapidated as a result.  

D: Man! What is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie doing with Cory Booker for Senate Campaign?

M: Dude! Governor Chris Christie’s up for reelection this November 2013 and Cory Booker is running as the Democratic candidate for Senator from New Jersey, get it?

D: Man! Yeah! Chris Christie is riding the coattails of the Democratic Party in order to secure the hearts of New Jersey voters who are overwhelmingly Democrat in their political preferences. Otherwise, Chris Christie is certain he will lose in the gubernatorial race.

M: Dude! That’s how the Tea Party operates, and probably a reason for their choosing a rattlesnake coiled in the grass with its tongue out in front of a bright tangy yellow flag. 

D: Man! So you got Kay Bailey Hutchinson promoting Ted Cruz in the underground while, aboveground, you have Chris Christie mockingly befriending Cory Booker because Booker is Democratic and Chris Christie needs to appear all-around compelling, despite the insipid and angry spiel he gave at last year’s RNC in which he reproached Ann Romney’s call for love and whatever else?

M: Dude! That’s pretty much it! These Tea Partiers have a great ability to shed their snakeskins as often as needed and camouflage in the rugged wilderness of American white flight communities or the uptown, gated communities that are similarly exclusive.

D: Man! George Will wrote this week in the Washington Post, quote unquote Republicans should vote, more in sorrow than in anger, to fund the government (at sequester levels, a significant victory… Sounds to me like the Republican GOP and Tea Partiers are having social mixes with likeminded delinquents from all corners of Nephelokokkygia.

M: Dude! Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said it best in an interview with Andrea Mitchell, that the consensus now is a game changer as well and that peace talks are far more demonstrative of American principles than air strikes and any militaristic involvement by U.S. And there is, as Nasser Judeh, emphasized, an equal interest in region security.   

D: Man! Wasn’t Nasser Judeh who related the hard work of Secretary John Kerry as being encouraging?

M: Dude! Yes, Nasser Judeh actually felt close to the finish with the “laser beam” efforts and concentration in the peace talks this week in New York City by Secretary Kerry.

D: Man! This week in New York City, we also had that discussion between Presidents Clinton and Obama!

M: Dude! The high-level meetings of the 68^th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations began this past Monday, the 23^rd of September, and will conclude on Tuesday, the 8^th of October! 

Man! Dude! Session #208

(D)ude: Man! I’m beginning to understand Taylor Swift’s frustration and problems with John Mayer. I’ve come across his song “Say” from his album Continuum over and over again today on Apple Radio. I think I know John Mayer’s soul too and to have him individualize his lyrics to a particular gal or guy, like Taylor Swift or me, would have me gritting my teeth and wanting to write an entire album about John Mayer’s heartlessness too.

(M)an: Dude! Did you set one of your Apple Radio channels to Enya? I’d be hurting too if I had to listen to songs about picking oneself up in any situation and all circumstances.

D: Man! Did you know that you’re allotted only six song skips in a row per hour?

M: Dude! Just add another station to the mix of stations you already got. It’s rather simple. And, don’t worry about accidental purchases. You’ll have to reenter your iTunes account identification and password and confirm each buy beforehand.

D: Man! Talking about accidentals, I had promised to look after my thirteen-year-old nephew last night and overslept through his stay myself. He admitted to having stayed up late and gotten a whiff of Canadian-born Senator from Texas Ted Cruz on one of the channels and actually feeling compelled to press the record button on the television remote. He could not figure out whether Cruz had lost sense of place and time in his 21-hour spiel and began to reveal his collective subconscious as if the broadcast were the medicine cabinet mirror in his personal bathroom at home.

M: Dude! Didn’t your nephew get his homework done and go back to school this morning?

D: Man! Ted Cruz got him, I think, super motivated to get to school and enroll in two sciences instead of the drama and art electives he was considering just days before. And, this is quite unlike him, my nephew actually is considering college admissions and looking into what the library carries in terms of the PSAT and SAT preparation.

M: Dude! That’s incredible! You’re nephew’s already acquainted with psychology? I saw Ted Cruz today on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner and there’s a slip of the tongue and a brief attempt at retribution through the prowess of a burro later on and on and on.  

D: Man! Is this the remarks he made about England and the Coc-Continent?

M: Dude! Yes! It’s at 2 minutes and 45 seconds into the 1 hour and 3 minute broadcast of NOW with Alex Wagner this afternoon!

D: Man! What about the attempt at retribution through the prowess of a burro?

M: Dude! Later on he declares his propensity or his father’s propensity to cocktails.

D: Man! Do you still have that recording? I’m going to have to bring my nephew over to review that bit, but I think one of his friends or teachers will have shown enough segments for a day. But the one you mention is repeatable for the sake of collective degradation of conservatism in the United States by the far right of the GOP.

M: Dude! Ted Cruz probably managed through Harvard Law like Representative Paul Ryan managed double majoring in economics and political science at Miami University.

D: Man! I am experiencing a brain freeze thaw right now! I want to go out and get preparation materials for introductory college mathematics courses. Do you think if I watched the same stuff as much as my nephew did last night, I could become motivated to attend to completion and graduation community college?   

M: Dude! Harvard University has been in the news lately about its coming out of what is known as a “quiet phase”- a course spanning the last two years approximately in which it has already received $2.8 billion in donations and pledges.   

D: Man! What are you implying? Ted Cruz is a Harvard graduate because he basically, due to a lack of considerable intellect to make it as a Democrat, he got on the right side of the political spectrum by becoming a Republican?

M: Dude! You’ve totally missed one essential point about the political spectrum. You don’t necessarily 

need to be of considerable intellect alone to be a Democrat, you also need that spirit of optimism mixed with what is unselfish. As President Clinton said as President Obama listened while they clarified the basics of the Affordable Care Act, healthcare is public good.   

D: Man! As President Obama said as President Clinton listened while they clarified the process of all Americans going online and at least exploring their options at healthcare.gov, healthcare is the economy.

M: Dude! When you keep the wirings in your mind from either unraveling or entangling with selfish notions like personal financial gains at all costs to society in general, you end up like Harvard University. It’s set to meet its goal for 6.5 billion dollars by 2018, but through mega donors and alumni for most of it, not fundraising which, according to consultant George Ruotolo from Cresskill, New Jersey, remains flat.  

D: Man! So, if our economy was egalitarian, not partial due to gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics that will keep us encroached in GOP sludge indefinitely, would Harvard University be able to recover its fundraising base, which I presume and pretty certain I am correct, that is more middle classers than Harvard or its mega donors and alumni want to admit?

M: Dude! There are upper middle classers and those middle classers who became middle classers and upper middle classers on two-person family incomes.

D: Man! There’s so much to be explored about the diverging trends in population, like caregiver mental health initiatives out there to assist families or individuals coping with an aging loved one with a condition like Alzheimer’s. I was reading somewhere about how ADHD and other brain miscalculations are very closely related at the molecular level. But a few wealthy income earners in the United States of America cannot sustain the great imaginative force that diversity amongst working and middle classers has provided US, and being targeted by the far right self–identified “rednecks” like Ted Cruz for total annihilation. And we’ve still got four and a half  more years of Senator Cruz and his non-assorted brand of crooked cookies.

M: Dude! According to President Obama and emphasized by President Clinton in their talk Tuesday afternoon in New York City, there is a particular “funny business” of the GOP that revolves around wanting to repeal the benefits in the law that is the Affordable Care Act but keep the tax credits in order to declare that they were able to partake in a reduced deficit model for the country’s economy.

D: Man! I’m telling you! Ben Bernanke ought to oversee the collective gathering of GOP members of Congress in order to get them to empty out their pockets like our mothers used to do whenever we came home from school. I’d personally grab Ted Cruz’s “argument boots” and turn him upside down and shake him until the entire deficit reduction poured down like Chuck-E-Cheese tokens.

Man! Dude! Session #207

(M)an: Dude! What commercial flight are you planning to take?

(D)ude: Man! Huh? Oh! I’m just checking how to get to Benghazi, Libya from Washington, DC. Did you know that there are no stops offered anywhere in Italy for the purposes of traveling to Libya? And, check this out, there’s an airport located directly in Benghazi, Libya!

M: Dude! Republican Representative and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Darrell Issa left for Italy and Egypt yesterday as a weeklong investigative probe into what happened in Benghazi, Libya on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11.  

D: Man! That’s just it! According to the travel booking websites I’m utilizing, there are stops in Chicago, Illinois and Amman, Jordan; Istanbul, Turkey; Frankfurt, Germany and Cairo, Egypt; London, England and Amman, Jordan again; and Zurich, Switzerland and Istanbul, Turkey once more.

M: Dude! Wow! That’s an exhaustive search for flights to and from Benghazi, Libya that would require stops in Italy and Egypt!

D: Man! Well, as you can tell from the lists, Cairo, Egypt is a legitimate stop if you want to go to Benghazi, Libya. But I am experiencing tremendous confusion in trying to generate the possibility of making a stop in Italy for the purposes of getting to Benghazi, Libya. And I am beginning to question whether Ted Cruz’s eyes seem to have inspired the Dior label to construct the dress Natalie Portman wore to last night’s New York City Ballet Fall Gala?

M: Dude! Dior! Natalie Portman? Haven’t you heard? Apparently, there are forces in fashion like Anna 

Wintour of Vogue Magazine, who carry about that John Galliano should be given yet another round of chances because of his genius, yet Galliano has always fallen to anti-Semitic commentary and that rudeness has actually precipitated into his designer’s vision. 

D: Man! What are you talking about? Is this the incident where John Galliano, upon being given another chance, chose to dress up in a costume version of the male Hasidic dress code?

M: Dude! That too! But the good news is John Galliano is gone two years this fall and Natalie Portman is onboard as the fashion spokes-model for the label, which she discontinued wearing when Galliano seemed to have been forgiven for such horrific behaviors.

D: Man! Did you catch the Emmy Awards? I did not. I looked at the highlights and fashion sentiments online. That’s how I came to discover Natalie Portman’s Dior gown. It was very delicious like turquoise and yellow peeps.

M: Dude! What about the black skirt? It too had to have had that delicate texture equivocal to those spiked stud leather boots and handbags. I can imagine you do not care much for those styles and equivocate the delicate texture of the Dior gown to Ted Cruz’s squinted stares. I also imagine that God inflicts lemony tongue twisters and raw dehydration mayhem on Cruz and Rand, the former’s eyes and the latter’s propensity to down water glass after glass, for all the financial calamities they want US to incur.

D: Man! Representative Issa left the country at a convenient time for himself. His preliminary staff report from the committee, which he chairs, attempts to tear apart the Obamacare Outreach Campaign unsuccessfully. And the other committee members in documents released shortly after the Issa rebuke, very quietly dismissed Issa’s report on account of the flaws therein. Don’t taxpayer dollars go into the construction of bogus reports like Representative Issa’s.

M: Dude! Darrell Issa did not care to allow at least one Democratic colleague of his to accompany him on this questionable mission to Italy and Egypt. According to Ginger Gibson of Politico, an itinerary was released by Issa’s office that identified the other two accomplices attending the weeklong trip. There’s a senior adviser from the Oversight Committee and a congressional military liaison.

D: Man! There are no names to be read in any of the articles and reports on Issa’s weeklong trip. But whether Issa did indeed go to Benghazi, Libya or not would be the question to be answered by Issa upon his return. Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland is the Ranking Member on the Oversight Committee and requested that Issa put off his trip until a bipartisan investigative team had been given the chance to form. Given the last minute nature of Issa’s trip, there was not enough time for a Democrat to make arrangements to leave with Issa.

M: Dude! Did you hear about Tammy Duckworth? She’s on the Oversight Committee as well and Issa promised Duckworth that the two of them would also take an investigative excursion to Benghazi, Libya. Apparently, Issa has plans to do this trip itinerary again, probably minus the stops in Italy and Egypt.

D: Man! David Petraeus ought to be questioned and offered up as a spokesperson to go to for the answers in Benghazi, Libya. I think Darrell Issa is playing games with the families of those who lost their lives by rehashing blame onto President Obama and Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and taking photographs of the absentee Democratic members of the Oversight Committee hearing last Thursday and posting them onto his Twitter Account.  

M: Dude! Issa and the Republicans in Congress cannot stay in their positions of inaction. A week from now, the government shutdown is going to be in effect and Issa has already secured a trip to Italy and Egypt beforehand?

D: Man! Darrell Issa is indeed building up a house of cards to blow in the face of the midterms. He and his fellow Congressional Republicans are builders of partisanship and distress.

M: Dude! Who’s itinerary are you going after you’ve finished off Issa?

D: Man! I believe Issa is dishonoring the four Americans who perished in that attack on our consulate in Benghazi. Not being able to stand by promises made is evil. Issa will disclaim everything upon his return, but let the souls of the Ancient Egyptians keep him from restful night sleep. 

Page 440: “Products of the Imagination”. Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Page 440: “Products of the Imagination”

You were not made for this earth, or the heavens

Your existence is only for the sake of a fable nowadays

What will be accrued by looking back at our garden oasis?

That tree branch which existed for nesting no longer stands

Don’t risk all for sincerity from inside the mercenary world

Look as if this concept, that of genuineness within partiality, was made for promised lands then, or, 

these days, human innovations!

You were not made for this earth, or the heavens

Your existence is only for the sake of a fable nowadays.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Page 192: “Too Much Suffocation”.Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Page 192: “Too Much Suffocation”

There is too much suffocation

Any form of declaration must be promulgated

If soundness does not awaken understanding

At least a certain amount of lamentation must be made acceptable, inescapable

The city’s poor remain clothed, but the city’s rich remain ungratified, insatiable

If facts are intact and reasonable, then there is plenty to dream about

Why feel dejected if few dreams yield futility?

Those philosophies that were foe to all households

Upon becoming executable, their legacy became devotional, reverential

However, upon coming into action alone, philosophies bring tranquility onto households

Their legacy becomes devotional, reverential upon the humaneness of households!

Dust storms are brewing here

Over there, people are pain ridden

From where shall the caravan of elegance emerge?

In this oppressive stretch, we the brave outspoken did the needed task!

And as for those who were proud to be the leading linguists designated by their cities’ households or not

Those, they turned out to be mute!

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Man! Dude! Session #206

(D)ude: Man! What are we going to do about this impending government shutdown?

(M)an: Dude! Let the people decide whether they want to participate in Obamacare. Allow the statewide regional leadership to defund Obamacare for future participants and keep the countless who have benefited and want to benefit from Obamacare enrolled in the program.

D: Man! There are loopholes in what you’re proposing. What if the American people are not aware at all about the beneficial and humaneness going on in government due to this Republican gerrymandering trend that favors white flight constituents?

M: Dude! And in exchange for this, President Obama and Vice President Biden get to rewrite the Farm Bill for benefiting the most vulnerable Americans who will have lost their supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits if Eric Cantor had his way in that legislative department.

D: Man! In exchange for the defunding of Obamacare, the GOP Republicans must surrender their other legislative agendas over to the Obama Administration and the United States Senate.

M: Dude! If our children and their families lose SNAP, what difference will Obamacare implement? Childhood diseases such as rickets will have compromised our children’s bodies and don’t forget the crisis in dental care that needs to be averted as well with the proper diet. How can a child be left to hunger and starvation alongside his or her family members?

D: Man! And if the government shutdowns, there will be an increased risk of crime and domestic violence. Healthcare via Obamacare will have to contend with such obstacles from the breakdown of the American Household that to have implemented it would be seen as a knockout failure in the long run.

M: Dude! Let the midterm elections and the voters decide what they want in terms of Obamacare. If they choose not to support the efforts of the Obama Administration, then let them continue voting into office their legislators.

D: Man! Attorney General Eric Holder could figure into the grand bargain as well. Attorney General Holder could negotiate something with the voter oppression tactics of the districts run by the Boehner and McConnell camp of Republican.

M: Dude! We need to be careful. We need Ben Bernanke to stay on and not say goodbye to the Obama and Biden Administration at this most critical time of negotiating.

D: Man! I cannot imagine the low birth weights and medical crises that the Cantor and Boehner alliance in the House will generate with their closed-door policies towards the very people who fed and clothed them and us!

M: Dude! John Boehner comes from a tough background and the thing that keeps him Republican 

fresh is that philosophy that the GOP extols, you know?

D: Man! What philosophy would that be? It is only relevant if it happened to me personally?

M: Dude! Come to think of it again, I think John Boehner is willing to look the other way on his folks in similar circumstances as he while growing up.

D: Man! Some complaints, like Pope Francis I disclosed in his interview six months into the papacy, “are better dealt with locally.”

M: Dude! I am of the opinion of Pope Francis I as well, “I want to see that this is a real, not ceremonial, consultation” between the House Republicans and President Obama and Vice President Biden.

D: Man! Actually, I would much prefer Vice President Biden be the one dealing the cards. As Pope Francis I continued, “We have to find a new balance. Otherwise, even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”

M: Dude! Maybe Pope Francis I ought to be invited to the White House? He’s a very spirited and honestly lovable Padre.

D: Man! We must keep separation of church and state! But I don’t see anything controversial about Padre coming over for tea with the First and Second families.

M: Dude! Pope Francis I appreciates Fellini’s works as you do. What was that film of Fellini’s you watched over twenty-five times?

D: Man! Zeffirelli’s La traviata! 

M: Dude! Oops!

D: Man! It’s okay. Just don’t ever do it again! Others might not be forgiving like me!

M: Dude! I’m not hopeless! Placido Domingo played Alfredo and Teresa Stratas played Violetta!

D: Man! And Violetta died of consumption. Excuse me, it makes me so upset, it really does.

M: Dude! Libiamo ne’lieti calici!

D: Man! I cannot! I mustn’t! Drink from the joyful cup at a time of crisis everywhere?

M: Dude! You’re beginning to worry me.

D: Man! I’m beginning to worry myself as well!

M: Dude! Did I just speak some French just then?

D: Man! I barely ever noticed! How come?

M: Dude! That House of Representatives in DC is worse than Violetta Valery’s salon! 

Man! Dude! Session #205

(M)an: Dude! Priceless lives were lost at the Washington Navy Yard yesterday in Washington, D.C. due to the effects of the Republican Party’s felonious automatic spending cuts known simply as The Sequester.

(D)ude: Man! If the loss of American lives at home, due to a criminal mind orchestrating around the flaws in national security at the moment because of the budget sequestration imposed by the Congressional Republicans making US vulnerable, does not provoke a movement to seek out one’s voting rights in the citizenry then I am going to go and live out the rest of my days in London like Kevin Spacey. 

M: Dude! Life abroad only betters for the affluent. If the American electorate fails to vote for the return of the Democratic Party to the House of Representatives, both chambers actually for total effects really, life at home will only better for the affluent here as well!  

D: Man! The Navy reported the final suspect was awarded medals in National Defense Service and Global War on Terrorism Service. What could have possibly gone wrong yesterday that he was not searched when he drove into the Navy Yard parking lot?

M: Dude! There were reportedly three suspects, but through the course of yesterday’s investigations, two were declared not to be suspects after all. However, access to the Navy Yard requires official identification and the suspect knew beforehand about the clearances provided to frequenters with official identification.   

D: Man! To think that there were possibly a group of three to begin with makes me wonder whether or not the other two were halfway accomplices. There were talks about government contractors and I thought about the Benghazi, Libya ordeal and the facts about the government contractors hired during the George W. Bush years that stayed on when President Obama came into office.      

M: Dude! The only reason the Republican Party continues making a major issue out of such a tragedy is because of its personal desire to control all branches of the United States government. In fact, Rand Paul and Chris Christie are so entrenched in this mentality of having won already that they’re purported to have started a back-and-forth between themselves as to who shall be what Republican nominee for 2016.   

D: Man! The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ought to be reinstated fully upon the heartlessness demonstrated by the Republican Party since the Supreme Court’s striking down Section 4(b) of the Act and handed responsibility to resuscitate the entire legislation to the already dysfunctional to the point of inaction Congressional Republicans.

M: Dude! There’s a Republican Congressman that has brought up the quote unquote serious flaws partly driven by cost cutting. Republican Representative Mike Turner of John Boehner’s Ohio’s tenth district is also a ranking member on the United States House Committee on Armed Forces and most likely trying to incriminate the White House and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for the cost cuts. 

D: Man! I think the Republican Party will probably most likely incriminate itself and the Republican austerity measures like The Sequester in the final analysis. And I think Defense Secretary Hagel’s accepting his present position from President Obama is a tough wound to heal in the GOP’s game of thorns.

M: Dude! Game of thorns is all the GOP’s GOT! But for the past several days I have sensed a troubling trend amongst the American Press on the left end too. Specifically, now that President Obama’s Administration is up and running for a second term to serve the American people as the President stated last week, Richard Wolffe has already written and is actively promoting his latest book critical of the interplay between David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Jim Messina, and Jay Carney.

D: Man! Hey! Today’s Richard Wolffe’s forty-fourth birthday! Awesome! President Obama is the incumbent forty-fourth president of the United States! Get it? Forty-fourth and forty-fourth! You know I’m a great astrologer. Let’s see… Richard Wolffe is a Virgo and the second ring on Saturn is mighty and the third Sun in the next solar systems that the Voyager is heading towards nowadays is absolutely stunningly aglow like all Virgo hearts.  

M: Dude! Seriously? Seriously, Richard Wolffe commented on President Obama’s gun control legislation efforts and how the National Rifle Association had proven far more effective in its goals. However, if realistically reexamined, the Republican Party’s gerrymandering, redistricting, and being Corporate America’s pawns instead of men and women of integrity and personal intellect is quite inferior to anything to come out of the reelection campaign headquarters of Messina et al.

D: Man! They say that electrons are what move around and create the distinctly interstellar sounds in space. But on Earth, we hear according to the collision of air particles. But, all in all, your screams cannot be heard in space and the Voyager’s power will most likely run out by 2025, which is a disappointment, considering the device would have to travel or travail 14,000 to 28,000 years to get out of our sun’s grasp.

M: Dude! Defense spending is going to be rising at an annual rate of 2.1% under the Republican Sequester from 2014 to 2023. Clearly, we have got to get these GOP dandelions out of the American soil starting right now. The Republican Party leadership from the fringes is actually not too outside the loop anymore. Their stressing trickle down economics from the Reagan era is off the mark entirely and the indignant hatred for foreign diplomacy could not have been better expressed then by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham recently to fundraisers about his personal disappointment over the United State not taking on a military strike solution to solving the conflict in Syria.

D: Man! Senator Lindsey Graham was actually disappointed? And Richard Wolffe considers what is unfolding in the chemical weapons negotiations as being a sign of weakness on the Obama Administration? Even I know enough to know how hard negotiations can become! Did you know I had to lecture two toddler factions on the playground this past weekend? My sister asked me to come join in on the fun, but little did I know that there would be such agonies at fourteen and sixteen months old unfolding in an otherwise idyllic setting. My mouth ran dry in the end when the toddlers finally stopped haranguing one another over the climbers and crawlers and, yes, the slides! 

Man! Dude! Session #204

(D)ude: Man! I cannot get the images of Syrian refugee children holding onto their siblings and mothers’ hands out of my conscience. I know there are those who are commenting Mark Zuckerberg’s initiative to equip all humanity with an Internet access as being too hyped and motivated by potential profits.

(M)an: Dude! But couldn’t Zuckerberg take his vision and equip the child refugees across the Middle East with computers by companies already attempting to place laptops in the hands of children across the world, like the OLPC, or the “one laptop per child” organization?

D: Man! Early childhood intervention is critical and we live in too fast an existence in terms of the sharing and integration of knowledge generated. I have heard people criticize Zuckerberg as being too invested in bringing technology to places needing drinking water and food first. But I argue, will that not be solved as well when companies that are partnering with Zuckerberg’s to bring the Internet via corresponding mechanics like broadband that are involved in establishing the critically needed steps towards connecting people everywhere on Earth?  

M: Dude! I believe Zuckerberg’s figured out Steve Jobs’ mantra for personal and societal growth. He addressed an audience this past August about his proposal and it’s basics by clearly stating, “ “There are companies that define themselves by the way they do things, and companies that define themselves by a concrete way they change the world.”

D: Man! Isn’t there a Facebook mantra too? What’s that fundamental principle of play therapy when 

fostering a professional relationship with the child client?

M: Dude! Do not build a relationship based on the child following the professional but the other way around. The professional should take the child’s lead.

D: Man! That’s it! Facebook allows employees to “Move Fast and Break Things” which brings about instantaneous changes because the company doesn’t nest, on its inventions and subsequent products, until attaining perfection. But Zuckerberg is not reckless and, like play therapy, there do exist best practices.

M: Dude! Sounds practical. Sounds very Steve Jobs, again. That the personal and the societal must remain interconnected and not lose awareness of each other’s ups and downs is critical. Zuckerberg has heroically chosen to address the issue of global connectivity instead of resting on his laurels.  

D: Man! Nesting on his laurels?

M: Dude! Either or!

D: Man! I was thinking about the refugee crisis in the Middle East due to the Syrian Civil War. I saw this photograph of a boy looking down in despair but still holding onto his younger brother’s hand while his brother looked to him for affirmation of hope and protection from harm. If the United States of America doesn’t invest in its own infrastructure, that of the countries depending on US for aide in order to keep their borders open to the growing influx of refugees from Syria will collapse into the hands of terrorists extremists.

M: Dude! I am afraid of that happening too. If the Republican GOP doesn’t address the horrors of the floods that have swooped Colorado residents into tragedy upon tragedy for several days now, and it’s not getting better until sometime after this coming Tuesday, then they deserve to be reprimanded and addressed as oppressors, not obstructionists.

D: Man! Every citizen has to vote in the midterms and the American Press, entrenched in the status quo mentality that corporations can function without government, needs to kill its neoconservative bias before it is tuned out and replaced with far greater global television markets. Is it I, or do you too prefer British programming, however limited and dated, on public television on the weekends?

M: Dude! Before I forget, did you know that The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is offering a selection of its MBA courses free online? Almost 700,000 enrollees in 173 countries have enrolled. Apparently, these massive open online courses, or MOOCs, originated from a common practice of “flipping” a class format by having students view the lessons beforehand to facilitate discussion than rehashing the lessons themselves.    

D: Man! The adult refugees need to be equipped with laptops as well as the Wharton online coursework too. Isn’t there an OLPC for adults? And who is the e-learning content developer who has created the interdisciplinary multi-format book entitled Gold Dust?

M: Dude! You’re talking about Hardyna Vedder from Germany! And, yes, her book Gold Dust, is being utilized by OLPC and it is quite effective in bringing together the fundamentals in a video game format interactive that subtly resembles The Humanistic Tradition by Gloria Fiero, which too could easily be transformed into an interactive literary journeying for undergraduates. 

D: Man! If I were a missionary I would choose to take Gold Dust in place of a children’s version of the Holy Book, and The Humanistic Tradition  in place of the Holy Book.

M: Dude! I agree! We have amassed too many literary cultural greats since the time of the printing press. And we are in a global community faced with global warming, a point upon which the Republican GOP’s blatant disregard for such phenomena is contemptible.

D: Man! This Republican Sequestration is making local fire departments have to plan for such severe cutbacks that it’s more like that intellectual game we used to play in earth science, the seventh grade, regarding the items we would pack if we were to leave Earth for the Moon. Remember how that one guy in class insisted he only needed poison and wished to put himself to death rather than live with the people whom he was assigned to devise a positive outcome?

M: Dude! The Congressional Republicans need to leave Earth for the Moon with only firearms! And they should be told about that greatest room in the world one more time. They’re so illiterate that they cannot read Secretary Kerry’s classified documents and, instead, rely on the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal’s pseudo-intellectuals to interpret the declassified documents and provide rhetoric that they can keep repeating and then renounce and keep repeating whatever may result from that.

D: Man! The largest room in the world is that of improvement! But the Republican GOP isn’t all that together upstairs to begin!

"Conventionalist Superpowers" Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). page 237

“Conventionalist Superpowers”

You are the ones who bring counterfactual proposals for peace treaties

You are the ones who distribute the ammunition

In addition to reneging on such hollow promises

You are the ones who claim to mourn over the massacres

And you continue distributing ammunition

Conservers of oppressive doctrines

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). page 215

There remain many courageous souls out there!

What is to become of us if my friends are unable to speak?

Witnesses are countless still in the absence of these friends.

There remain many courageous souls out there!

There are countless forthright souls amongst us!

I recognize that trepidation and revulsion are not mine alone.

These passageways into irresponsible anger and untimely madness do not end at us.

Yes, there are many more slit sentiments than there is benevolence

Yes, there are many more split settlements than there is principality

If you find yourself intact, there will be no shortage of pelting stones of rebuke from your neighbors

If you find yourself unscathed, there will be no shortage of scathing arrowheads for your demise

Whilst the gang of city arbitrators suffer not even the deserved infamy for their obscenities

Hence, the people are protesting tyranny collectively

Delivering their message, a befitting start to an end, “Still the lords of oppression go unaccounted!”

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

"Mademoiselles" page 117. Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980).

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). page 117 “Mademoiselles”

(Addressing The Cynical Nations Inside Peace Talks)

Honorable Nations, Souls of Sovereignty

Why are you perplexed without reason

If people are saying so, they may be speaking the truth

Your dear affiliations may or may not have acquired civilization

In my own personal surrounds, people declare inhabiting the splendor of civilization

But their splendor, I believe, consists of bare financial assets alone

Where we are standing today, civilization cannot be nourished

Poverty destructs all sense of elegance

Hunger cannot be caste into the molds of decorum

If people are saying so, then why get surprised at such accounts

They ask the absolute truth, and that is, “What is there to consecrate about devastation?”

People are declaring their ruin, but why do you revel in their ruination?

Please! You continue to insist upon adding to their strife through remarks like, “There is no civility in 

the low.”

Very soon those generations that you expeditiously classified as forever lost

Very soon that epoch will arrive when you have to reexamine today’s outlook

We took oath at the time of our disgrace, and I swear today upon your greatness

We must reexamine the standards of civility

In every epoch, we endured humiliation, yet we bestowed the brilliance of honor in the face of wrongs 

upon that era and continued onwards

In every epoch, we have bore the toil of injustice

In every epoch, we have bequeath power

What is to be gained by these bitter discussions today

People are asking this, so they may be speaking some truth herein

My dear affiliates have not acquired civilization

Where I am residing today, there is no humanity inhabiting anywhere

For the cause for the lost luster of this garden, I till

Should I say this or should I not?

Who is guilty for such misfortune or at fault for such setback

Should I disclose this or should I not?

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Man! Dude! Session #203

(M)an: Dude! Let’s keep in mind that it was The Washington Times, not The Washington Post that ran the Republican DeSantis’ descent from the President’s proposals concerning the Syrian Civil War.

(D)ude: Man! Regarding American legislators and descent, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania questions the proposal made by Putin in the New York Times Op-Ed, stating that there is a less than fifty percent chance of the credibility of the Russians and the Syrian Regime. I disagree. Instead, I believe President Putin is heroic and, unlike the United States Congressional Republicans at the moment, sincere.    

M: Dude! I agree with you. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey also went too far with his preconceived prejudicial notions about President Putin’s personal history. He specifically said that he “wanted to vomit” upon reading the Op-Ed piece because he worries over the KGB ties and in doing so discredited President Putin as questionable in seriousness.

D: Man! That article was from CNN, so it would contain verbose hatred for Russia’s President Putin today and then turn the page and declare something all the contrary to its stance this morning!

M: Dude! Senators Casey and Menendez are two Democrats who have come under the influence of the Republican GOP obstructionism not just at home but abroad as well. We must be careful to follow only Secretary Kerry alongside others inside President Obama’s Administration in light of these glib and shameful comments by our very own party affiliates.

D: Man! President Putin’s A Plea for Caution from Russia is specifically addressed to “the American people and their political leaders” and I completely agree with the reason stated by Russia’s President for such an entreaty, “It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.”

M: Dude! I am in agreement too with President Putin that, “No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.”

D: Man! This whole idea of the United States being the police officer of the world is a hangover from the times when Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney just started their careers in the systematic and methodological degradation of the democracy of the United States. Their pictures from that time are black and white and faded like Instagram photographs, but other than that, they have been very successful bullies in every sphere of international protocol.

M: Dude! Senators Casey and Menendez should be ashamed for their comments concerning President Putin’s Plea for Caution. In fact, if Senators Casey and Menendez are truly members of the Democratic Party in the United States, they ought to defend President Putin, not descent into a Republican GOP mentality of tearing apart social safety nets of the most vulnerable Americans and then further deconstruct American society through organized and methodological schemes like asset forfeiture.

D: Man! President Putin addressed the most vulnerable in all societies when he stated, “No matter how targeted the strikes or how sophisticated the weapons, civilian casualties are inevitable, including the elderly and children, whom the strikes are meant to protect.”

M: Dude! President Putin ought to be invited back to the United States of America by its citizenry. He has been peacekeeping far evenhandedly than anyone else in the world right this minute. Perhaps, I pray, he can talk some sense into the gilded foolery of the Republican GOP we’re suffering under, which goes by the casual yet insanely devastating policies of cruel and heartless billionaires like the Brothers Koch and the Walton Family.

D: Man! We ought to have Newt Gingrich and Eric Cantor spend time together with Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. I am almost certain the three will become so incensed with one another that there will be an ensuing gun fight and each will have had a bullet in the buttocks.

M: Dude! Gingrich, Cantor, and LaPierre are given the craziest scripts to read by their billionaire masters. Did you know that for the right price, they’re willing to square dance in their holsters?

D: Man! Really?

M: Dude! Of course- well, come to think of it, I’m not sure what it is like to have billionaires as masters.

D: Man! Newt Gingrich and Eric Cantor and Wayne LaPierre have been soaking  shamelessness since the start of their careers within the Republican GOP.

M: Dude! The Gingrich instatement and now Cantor reinstatement of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is a humiliating tragedy inflicted upon the most desperate Americans, an abomination. It was never “from welfare to workfare” but a “from self-efficacy to self-despair” route that kept people in the loophole of constantly having to find work while receiving absolutely no cash benefits meanwhile whatsoever.

D: Man! That’s the Republican GOP’s strategy for solving all crises, keep inside one loophole. As many as they can balance, I bet they will go down in history as circus clowns than policymakers.

M: Dude! As President Putin has said, “If we can avoid force against Syria, this will improve the atmosphere in international affairs and strengthen mutual trust. It will be our shared success and open the door to cooperation on other critical issues.”

D: Man! I loved the way President Putin concluded his piece for The New York Times, “There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”

M: Dude! Yes, God did create us equal. However, it is an entirely different reality under the Republican GOP.