AUGUST 23, 2024 POETRY Love BUK'E WYRM Sometimes the way things seem the truth we escalate happens to temperate this dismay refrain happens to occlude us as is so fits the format framing. The culture God is our surface to allow this generation some such decorations sort of happens these developments sort augment stasis quote, “wasting” and this has got to stations remove to replacing has God sent into place on love we creating? GROUNDCOVER NEWS Drowning heart (part 2) TERESA BASHAM Groundcover vendor No. 570 Some such savings BUK'E WYRM These these breed heart stings growing our dreams. The same same much hac come of this lately has happened. Enough just to come of and can self-correct their mechanism subtle suggest our message fix this life lessons has happened as can happen. How this happens some such basic sanity soul contracting fractions above the reference so some happens just to give this back with you. All we ever do not to fit the promotion wanting the most Oceans motions has this pertains to what it is obvious these things happen of their own accord God works in mysterious ways to divine miracles to perform wonders we get our truth to happen to. Only if I knew, For sure that you, Were completely mine, Not only part time, You treat any other bitch, Better than me, Thatz just one more stitch, Ta my drownin heart, Only if you could see, How itz tearin me apart, Through thee last year, I’ve cried those tears. The way life goes EARL PULLEN Groundcover contributor No one knows the way Life goes when life is young And you are old thus I can Say on that very day I have lived life in a Special way wondering what a special Life holds when life is young And you are old when dreams Come true and all you can say I have lived my life in a Special way when day turns Night and night turns day I open my eyes and then I can Say oh how I lived life In a simple special way when Day turns night and Night turns day 11 REPRESSION from page 5 Tennessee Coal Mine Company. Each of these six companies were given as illustrative of a large number of events in U.S. labor history. It is inconceivable that, in view of the prevalence of private police, company towns, and deputization of private police, as well as reliance on state militias as strikebreakers, that my “composite,” as a literary device, is far off from actual events in U.S. history. In the other 573 pages of the main body of Goldstein, he describes in exquisite detail the “recent” history of political repression in the United States, from 1870 to 1976. Political repression in the United States has gone through a number of transformations since 1870. In many ways, U.S. political repression is now more “polite” — no longer, to my knowledge, do corporate tycoons (who own company towns) hire thugs to “keep order” in their towns, especially if threatened by the disorder of striking workers. And then, after the same thugs are safely implanted at the plant gates, no longer do the same tycoons enlist the aid of the County Sheriff by deputizing the thugs, thereby augmenting the thugs’ informally recognized power (to beat on the said workers’ heads with clubs, without provocation) and arrest the workers and turn them over to the formal justice system of The State, for “processing.” (See author's note.) Such processing as done in the past would probably now, in 2024, alarm all but the most rabid Cro-magnons of the Mitch McConnells of the United States. It doesn’t really matter; such processing has been supplanted by more polite — and therefore more dangerous (because less offensive to the sensitivities of the general public) — political repression. The Ann Arbor District Library has no copies of “PRMA”. The book remains in print, from University of Illinois Press, for $40.00. Online book sellers also offer both new and used copies. Buy it. Read it. Keep it. Your favorite local bricks-andmortar bookstore needs support. your Author's note: The scenario described in this paragraph, of what happened before repression became “polite,” as far as how tycoons exploited the status quo, is a composite of a number of events described by Goldstein. Here is a partial list of Goldstein’s terms: “company towns,” see page 10; “thugs” (private police), see page 11; “deputization,” see page 13. I briefly and unsuccessfully searched PRMA for a description of a specific event in which, explicitly, 1), private police 2) entered a company town and not only assaulted striking workers, but 3) used public police powers to arrest the same workers and turn them over to the community’s criminal justice system for prosecution. But in view of the plethora of occasions when at least two of the three elements of political repression were present in the response of corporations to union activism, the likelihood that there have been occasions when all three occurred seems great. exp. 01/31/2025
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