Wounded in life, I seek to staunch the wounds of others . . . . --xoj

"Jack Spratt’s two centavo Guide to Redemption”
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God's tapestry, all creation, my greatest value an attempt to live/love for: in gratitude, mercy, forgiveness, regardless of Age, Race, Creed, Gender, Gender Proclivities, or Generosity . . . seeking to make redemtion salvation & resurrection potential in all unique, precious, individual lives, human, plant, animal, world. . . .through words & images - Jack Spratt ... KISS

Sunday, July 8, 2012


120708 05:49 foretold

My demise is foretold by profit not prophesy
as is our species extinction none ever remembered no trace
quick or slow the monuments whether head stones or The Statue of Liberty or Treasury will be sand plain and simple a desert deserted in time

I should be sad but am not since this world as always reverts to the rich and powerful the 1% who glibly slay us for their amusement in our deaths
but in life we are “The White Man's Burden”

I am not for sale and never will I be a slave to anyone or thing save God of course

The formulary of me; this heart, the soul, this consciousness was born in an attic, Ripley, Ohio. The Rev. John Rankin House at first sight the manacles lain upon a plain wooden floor where runaway slaves hid from those who having purchased them exercised extreme measures to humiliate and propagate their profits by inseminating women slaves and their female children. Disbanding families as though live stock. The scenario etched a dry point copper plate remains still bleeding.

Scarcely able to manage myself what can I contribute to such little time is left consequent the wars for profit, rumors of more, or, The Big One ending it all in a flash. Then too are the other bombs: population, endless rape of civil rights, confiscation of homes, education and one now wonders the genius of Osama bin Laden who could have planned this betrayal resulting in our common estate. Instead I see bankers, politicians, stock manipulators, speculators nakedly enjoying what they have wrought their glee our final loss of the glory fought for on foreign shores with our taxes insured.

I may speak about God but not for the divine. Were I able I would sterilize them all expunging their families backwards and forwards so that no memory of their greed remained. Their incorporated protections legal in Florida where the principal part began.

But of course by their definition such is impossible for they have justified their greed by legislation proclaimed selfishness as the ideal & normative. The gall of them the bile I can scarcely contain. Perhaps The Big One, a communal mass suicide would be better than the 20 year assured death sentence of Alzheimer & Dementia’s assured by plastic lined cans, flexible plastic bottles rendering our male children impotent . . . by Alzheimer epidemic now will soon be a plague unstoppable and that alone will crush what remains of Their, Inc. profits.

Neither Sky Pilot, nor clairvoyant, I remain a journalist and once one, always one. A witness recording the death throes of what was once a wonderful idea.

We become, now and future Point of View, experiential, ultimately victims of those who purport to lead/rule by “Divine Right” the 1% . . . be well and do no harm

© 2012 by Jack Spratt All Rights Reserved

120707 16:02 sin

To waste a life, a self, a consciousness, a soul, is a sin against the creator and the self imperfect.

Yet in all life lived I've never known a person perfect.

In fact it may be a sin against God to place God above loving you as you are; imperfect. I, a sinner, or merely imperfect, who in accepting the confessions received, in subtle ways sometimes obvious never solicited. I imply or state; Pray for me a sinner then go in peace absolved. Their burdens lain aside for a time, or forever; but like forgiveness, I've done my part. Most often blessing with a smile, or tear, a touch or merely carrying them in my heart/mind/soul in continual prayer; heart enlarged a bit more by degree not kind.

In AA, if memory serves me, the term is sponsor. But for me mentor serves better. Too well remembered the phrase for the learner: pigeon. And there are those who are, in turn, pigeon fuckers. Predators. Thus not trustworthy and in and of all things trust is required. All teachers worthy of the title eventually realize the learning/healing/answer is within the student. And the teacher, if willing to learn, becomes a teacher taught, win/win or and/both never either/or.

In recent time I bemoaned not winning, placing or showing in a Feature Shoot exhibition. The first I'd had the courage to enter potentially losing at the only 'good thing' I'd ever done. Reaching backward these few days past the saying and this realization. I now recognize the importance of my impending death since the young need the space to become themselves. At the time of my meteoric ascendancy decapitated by the deaths of my children I was informed by those I taught that I was the cause of their not becoming photographers. In truth I knew the job statistics; not teaching photography as such, but the art of seeing what you look at. Farther and only implied; the why you saw as you did.

But for now, no longer aggrieved, the me I wanted to be 'successful' as in worthy of attention, acknowledgment, praise and reward, I am able to enter the maelstrom of creativity using the play with words unconsciously ongoing; always there from infancy. And in this humble way know the joy sought.

Be Here Now.

This “Here” being within Eternity embraced by infinity. In a minor way; what Rumi & Shakespeare were and for now remembered immortal since we may soon lose the eyes & the minds to be their audience.

I have always identified with those in need. Never the successful who gloat and smirk at others judging themselves whole and complete; superior. Yet even in that an inverse ego is revealed; what I need ridding of.

Atonement for wanting to love my mother into loving herself was vastly more than wanting to get laid. In confessing that, the wake and burial following, entered an new dimension; an unfilled longing for more. If you want more and more you are addicted and my more was love that I could trust possibly attended by sexual play ignoring all the wealth I have need for nothing else the end of more.

Then, via the Internet, in response to my blog, a woman asked to be my friend. A dialog ensued. Within which, oddly, all my longing was healed & fulfilled. No 'happy ending,' no touch, no enveloping lubricity ending in the divine “O”; not getting 'laid.' Just a dance of words. Though there is, or could be, so much more, I can now die happy knowing this divine bliss; a woman who in dancing with me­the highest form of prayer­finds what I thought of myself unacceptable, accepted; as I am and want to be. That impossible being; what was impossible with mom; for, from or within.

We are not things, expendable cyphers, but unique and worthy of love and respect the indwelling creator who equally is invisible needing to be found.

. . . and when you see Him/Her living beneath a bridge say hello for me please. Ignoring those who say or imply you are merely this or that an object of their contempt.

We are an army of giants in need of being who we are; souls in process becoming whatever we want to be. . . . Mostly freedom from tyranny.

120708 01:28 pooch

An unspeakable knowing of puppies known
in North America, as “fucking the pooch”

Thinking is a sensing function, an inherent way of seeing one depends . . . .

(Note: Not the adult diaper, a registered Trade Mark, begins with a capital 'D' representing a coping with what is inevitable. The result of mindless consumption mysterious and of unknowable consequence, wildly profitable food modifications – or as a result of adult men fisting, anally one another or just one.

Please see disambiguation: my two most favorite political figures Howdy Dowdy & Uncle Bob otherwise known as President Bush the younger and Momma’s Boy coupled with or by Vice-President Cheney the greatest terrorist since Genghis Kan spoken of or at the very least alluded to in previous posts.

Also see Alzheimer's the evacuation of brain matter which, like our savings, homes, advanced education of children, automobiles, Social Security etc. . . .where did the money go?)

. . . on. In the immature adult, what once was admired; depended upon exclusively: while there are another three: feeling, sensing, and intuition.

Farther investigation might be profitable please see: “Chinese Curse” at Wikipedia or Google It­--for a broader array of . . . before the politicians expunge not only the resource but we who seek it freely. . . oh well.

The balance of these four sensing functions (seeing/experiencing the World and Important Values) historically was known to have been in the prescription of very few individuals, namely Jesus, but this author sees similar proclivities and penchants in other known leaders Mohammad, Buddha and so on who either died in their sleep or where expunged, redacted or merely murdered as is most often the response of those who “think” only.

In this authors view(s) an attempt has been made to simplify as: sheep or goat, those who steal or those who give . . . the first being murders and the latter sacrificially murdered or ignored.

Albeit there is another system of personality categorization known as the Enneagram about which there is little common knowledge since it was derived from mystical Islamic oral tradition. And as is obvious hysterically suspect since one lunatic faction of Islam destroyed the Cathedral of Greed also known as, variously 9/11 or, The World Towers.

A personal opinion: Had the 'Powers that Be' namely the “Thinkers” been not so anal retentive, controlling/manipulative, it would be obvious the attack itself would have been impossible, had the command & control center been wide spread throughout the nation.

“Thinkers” tend to only see what they want to see, or, are subject and object of their thoughts magically caught in the concept and execution of those they perceive as a threat to their greed. Jesus was murdered not by Jews but by Scribes and Pharisees; the thinkers and lawyers of that time.

Imagine we the people owning a candy store requiring a manager. While we go about the serious business of: raising our children, maintaining shelter and acquiring food. In our absence the employee becomes curious sampling the candy. Upon our periodic return we discover the the store broken apart and employee grown enormous, the mouth of the candy jar worn like jewelery with pride. And then the manager wants a bonus. In this instance we do not have a choice; the reward of failure is more. Obsessive Compulsive Addiction to candy.

Perhaps we need define differently, economy, as neither free market capitalism or socialism or communism. Could we think in terms of collaboration?

. . . Discovered after the above written; please read and make your own discernment. 

A Sistine Chapel fresco depicts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden for their sin of eating from the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

© 2012 by Jack Spratt All Rights Reserved

Saturday, July 7, 2012


120707 01:07 Wm Feather

"That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally." --William Feather

If I were to site one nexus transformational it would be my integration into the community at large begun in a small swimming pool more like than unalike the Pool at Bethesda. Wherein I am electrocuted by two PhD. and a singular psychic of such considerable gifts that when she speaks, seldom, it would be as if attempting to fellate a canon at Picket's Last Charge receiving grape shot orally not blow away but vaporized.

I doubt she approves what I say or think but combined with the other two I am a milkshake, vinegar and honey; me that is. There is a sure glory to be educated and vital in the final years indifferent to the definitions of others. Of course they are educated and I not.

"One can acquire everything in solitude--except character." --Stendhal

I am superfluous a grain of sand more like a dust mote growing more so smaller by post save in this I would if I could give a reason to live if only for one more minute those who by suicide left the rest of us behind bereft of their why. And for those of us who remain we the PTSD a why to go on.

“ He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ” --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He, Nietzsche, also fabulously said: "Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
. . . & I hear the sound of one hand
the Who and Why I live and love the Author of All
& to M for suggesting service @ hospice


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Friday, July 6, 2012



120706 23:02 Henry David Thoreau

He was a nice boy kind and gentle merciful doing miracles at first then preaching parables but they scourged then paraded him though streets of indifference in tattered robe around His waist bloody bearing the cross arm tied across his shoulders to indicate his fate then erected upon the vertical to humiliate further naked He no diaper or panties wore so in the very end his sphincters relaxed urine and feces and blood and all poured.

He was a nice boy but I am not from me flames and asteroids are expelled excreted all orifices in one archetypical dream a stone scraping back gloom inhabited grave we He and me were chained to a barren tree no bark no limbs by our wrists He looked at me terrified his diminutive slender scared body brown eyed broken bruised Semitic broken nose not weeping but horrified

No I am not the Antichrist merely His brother for whom I came having never left to make sure His death not in vain or jest Pray thee our parent is more merciful than I

"It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders." --Henry David Thoreau --On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Upon rediscovery first impulse to retroactively abort any and all associates and families man woman & child backwards & forwards to expunge the genes of those who would profit the desecration of Walden Pond leaving access to only the rich leaving neither name nor monument their having ever been behind locked gate communities . . . American Eden?

Beware a Jester playing the fool popping pimples on posteriors of rulers for they may well receive not a Fleet but an Napalm enema We are legions and our names are PTSD a World Wide Web union to you who would censor us Anonymous

Give us Liberty or Death for we would be slave to no Man bowed

"Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?"
--George Bernard Shaw

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120706 17:22

time meaningless nothing in The Presence not held in arms but walked beside in the silent communion nothing passes but values one would give their soul in part or whole for

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.” + grief --Alexandre Dumas

& for me for now for us all we soon to die extinguished these words this day will be oft strummed the Aeolian your self adored

I weep freely for what was sold into oblivion this promise so once bright darkened and dying now cloaked enshrouded in greed our once grand being and world gambled the control for gamed and kicked to the curb

Celebration – gratitude – thanksgiving yes to all but there remains a frisson sadness more nearly rage uncontrollable . . . note please those few who read my songs and soft shoe shuffling dance in lower case + grief before --Alexandre Dumas

Methodology: I leave bread crumbs passing through various authors the following crows adoringly leave them mnemonically instead laughing on my shoulders metaphorically emergent a preoccupation with the PTSD those returned warriors and the others beaten senseless by patents of unusual proclivity and bigotry both types raped endlessly grieved

Not all abuse or defamation is 'bad' since in time the pain and suffering forge out truths some to mutilate others in rage or merely refined kindness distilled

{note} I will go forward with my intent the bellow:

120705 05:44 oz

You are important I am important all eyes/I's equally so.

No birth noble or ignoble merely divided biodegradable cells. Life without imprint like the earth was as the center of this one of billions systems constructed or evolved. Just dust gas sometime light sometime black holes consuming dying or generating birthing elements unknowable for this now in eternity equivalent infinity.

You & I cannot know now the begging or end of time or whether the word 'time' has real consequence to the origin of us. What you see is ultimately not what you get. Merely another way of saying to have or have not; no meaning definitively.

Your brain six pounds of tofu your mind another matter.

Some are boy or girl or both equal. Those mindless brainless sightless vacuous or filled with ideas and ideals are equal neutral tuning forks vibrating notes silently unknowable to which we are deaf.

I been dead a long long time just still walking around talking about nothing and I don't waste this precious to me time talking to people who exist the beginning and end no life just a heart beat walking taking dead in a rut an infinite open ended grave no head stone no dirt to cover the stink.

We are in hell no heaven possible but sanctuary yes. The keeper is kept twirling his/her keys raping the bars across your eyes & mind with a club. The only reason he or she lives is to occasionally fuck you up just for fun because They, Inc. Can.

Remember we are all equal none better or worse just the choice to do or be or not.

Two choices basic to existence be a Sadist or Masochist or a member of the living dead.

Which role in this play do want?

To eat, shit, die indifferent or to live as one or the other role. Remember you can't escape the prison keeper kept or like me you think 'I never asked to be born and don't want to live anymore.'

Fine.

End “your” life.

Woodstock.

Ground Hog Day.

You'll never escape playing the same role over and over until you choose to change the script.

Go shopping at a different store new or old car to get or not get laid. Fill in the blank what's your flavor ass mouth vagina or maybe knitting needles in your urethra. Daddy wanted you to take over his bank and you wanted to be Snow Bunny

In you is a bird cage filled with diversity yet you are just one of the kinds, the species special the one you love best. . . .

I'll stop here having resurrected the string. Our time place consciousness is merely that a string with beginning middle end and nothing more only The All is infinite

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120706 04:55 truth

I have empathy and respect for politicians but of trust for their “truth” I have none.

I distrust the Bible in many ways yet within as with most wisdom books there is a kernel truth writ enormous hidden. It is my truth that I have seen God, not metaphorically but face-to-face stone cold sober. Yet I am shy speaking this for the hysteria, a feminine slander actually, it might cause. By experience I have learned that definitions are fluid subject to projection wishful or magical thinking and change with time by their use and abuse.

This is an ongoing dialog not ending in death or eternity for both God and the all that surrounds us for now is expansive. Yet like we this species called mankind the most predatory destructive violent and dare I say savage. Using the word carefully for The Nobel “Savages” we so glibly annihilated more so than Hitler or Joseph Stalin we Americans are guilty of the worst crimes in history.

And our crimes go on amplified by power's quest for competition and simple childish greed. My beloved mentor Norm Ouellet http://livejournal.com/~normand_ouellet uses a phrase “Yah But!” indicative of protest the potential of change in any dimension or measure. M being my other mentor she of emerald Sphinx gaze is the other.

Love is not what we get but what we give.

In honor no gratuity required for what they gave me I give you. We are not a cabal or corporation but merely friends me in the middle being grateful and now joyous Though this world and all inhabitants as we know our selves now will be exterminated by our indifference and waste thus soon extinct.

Yet by Weird Science both the movie and the reality of Exxon manipulations we are lead further beyond the point of no return. Forestall a bit maybe but the dire end is closing rapidly.

If in fact my encounter with what we call God is sincere regardless working with those about to die has enabled me to accept that I could and may want to die at any minute so I have no fear of THE THOUGH POLICE, EXXON, or god. Yet in love with the flesh of all His/Her children I will not harm neither those who torture nor those who slay me.

The Wizard of Oz seems appropriate of mention for not only the fear filled man who speaks with “god like voice” but equally the governance of those not freely elected and their corruption of those who are.

So few of us truly know what a friend is ever never being one to our self never fully trustworthy nor transparent souls fully disclosed nakedly so. For me it began in the Rankin House in Ripley Ohio on the second floor at least during my childhood there were hidden rooms with manacles symbols of what was fled from. Now there is no where to flea no liberty no real choice. First came the African Americans then the Native Born Indians the and now and forever more you the halt, lame, blind and deaf like me so soon to die.

My truth is I am resident not merely of America, the world but what lays beyond adopted Though I did say in reply to a 'fan' deliciously salacious that I had married God. Free to enter her body I refused infidelity to the Who or Whom not the IT I love.

Less dramatic or sentimental. I returned from elementary school hiccuping hysterically crying stumbling with commotion stumbling into the residence of my parents never home to me . . . “Mommy they called you a Whore” both laughed at me.

End of story.

Death be not proud it is merely the beginning again a new chapter. Rebirth virgin.

Be well beloved family of mine all of you.

Yah But its only a story isn't it?!

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120705 23:53 Sargent

Bursting from the cool shadowed Company office confines came a sickly green promise a tornado swirling towards my shouting form addressing the platoon Black as night he was the Company Master Sargent three up three down Mine safety pinned to a black band three up Two fingers separated our eyes beginning sotto voce flaming my eyes fixed though him with my thousand meter stare

did
your
Mother
Teach
YOU
THOSE
WORDS!

Unblinking I answered him silent seeing through to the horizon in the pregnant pause a slow grin spread my lips crescendoed slowly the platoon quietly chortled giggled then guffawed Fortissimo

Flames smoldered to embers a blush suffused his glaring face so near mine About face stepping briskly back to his air conditioned lair door quietly closed his rage gentled

6 . . .
7 then
8 finally
9 minutes
at 94 degrees
92 humidity Fort Dix New Jersey mid-July

About face at a brace I shouted Dismissed Our Week End pass withdrawn for dirty barracks not passed I'd promised them they'd do it on their knees with shoe brushes the next inspection

Sure she did Had a mouth on her like a trooper in the Beer Hall half past 11
& even the British Navy in a San Juan whore house
Anytime anyplace any reason or none at all

amen bro

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