Hesiod Embraces The Jar of Themis

[Jennifer O'Kelly]

I have been working with a group of young authors from urban 
neighborhoods for the last couple of years...

Here is one for you.

SAVANNA
What do I do?
Where do I go?
I question myself daily
Why should I stay?
Here?
Should I eat this?
What is this?
The deciding.
Yeah
I see you smell you
  Be you, no boo, sit back while I decide whether to keep you
Or shut you.  Why should I do anything?
Can’t I just stay I bed?
Or maybe just hit you in your head
Can I shout out loud?
Or maybe stay quiet
Stay still like that leaf on a tree.
No wind. For all these questions I still Have to decide on deciding.

When she wrote that Savanna was 14.
I think DJ was 16 the first time he delivered this at a poetry reading.

DJ
Man my life is like hell
I'm sitting in my room
But it feels like I’m sitting in a jail cell
People say they love me, say they care
But I can’t tell
I’m watching my back
I want to stay at home to keep from selling crack
Yes; one of the ways I survived
Y’all looking at me, my pants hanging
My hair all wild- and say he’s never going to amount to nothing
Well open your eyes; I’m the one up here telling you about my life.
Now I’m not the best dressed or the best looka
I can still hear my mom’s voice, “Boy you better get in here, before I 
whoop ya”
Now I’m not the brightest or the dumbest
  I know a little about life but I still need help with some of it.
Times are hard, makes me weak
Some nights I stay up forget about sleep.

He has to take a year off from HS because he was doing something 
somewhere he should not.  He is working to promote a 5 city regional 
tour for the youth ensemble that has grown out of the project to 
deliver their staged forums (live performances including youth poetry, 
rap, music, songs, and film/video works in conjunction with an art 
exhibit), "Home and Hood" and "Day by Day."

Any thoughts on how to help these artists get published?  All their 
work is copyrighted, and Nathan Ross Freeman (a playwright) who works 
with them to develop their writing impulse has archived over 200 pieces 
since this project began.  Frank Eaton, our cinematographer/film editor 
has over 25 digital shorts on file,... It seems like it is time to 
start making this work available.



On Jun 3, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Lanny Quarles wrote:

> Hesiod Embraces The Jar of Themis
> (A Metis-Mixing By Pan-Pandora)
>
> stomached by
> ambivalent jar in gift sorrow
> in night sweat by mixed blessing fires
> blessing
> in fire by mixed
> by mixing fire
> blessing
>
> [pan (flute)]
>
> pandora
> where mixing fire
> by sweating they embrace
> the artificial creature
> ambivalent jar
> mixing pandora mixing
> by fire
> jar fired blessing
> what men embrace by mixing
> fire by blessing fire
> pandora
>
> not a woman but a jar
> but ajar the mouth
> of opening the mixing
> the fire of the opening
> of the jar
> the ambivalence of the opening
>
> they have fled
> when the opening was made
> when the fire by mixing
> blessing had fled by
> fire blessing ambivalence
> they had fled
> by tradition it was gone
> like a fire
> suddenly gone
>
> something after eating
> what is left in the jar
> the jar ajar
> fire fled fleeting a foot
> what glinting
> what sits upon the bottom
> of the jar
> of mixing
> what ambivalence
>
> whatever it contained
> as goods
> whatever contained
> whatever
> hope pandora mixing
> names fire mixing glinting
> fleeting they have fled
> a fire by blessing a jar
> a jar
>
> by pharmakon the sack
> the jar a sack by mixing a fire
> by blessing a sack a wind
> will flee the jar
> what he gave
> what she gave
> the jar
> the sack of the wind
> of the pharmakon
> whatever fled the jar
> whatever what mixed
> by fire
> sorrow by all
> none spared by fire
> by ambivalent blessing of
> goods of the jar ajar
> simply good
> round sweating
> wine
>
> whatever left the jar
> a sack
> a wind
> was sweating wine
> the new wine
> a shield of music
>
> [pan (flute)]
>
> pandora by hesiod
> by curse
> by seeing a curse
>
> by the fire
> by the filters
> by the fire of filters
> mixing the blessing
> all-giving
>
> by opening the prison
> of the jar
> by opening it
> by breaking it open
> by a mallet
> by a tiny mallet
>
> so small
> whatever the hand
> in the landscape
> by will
> by fire
> of mixing
> hope
> blessing
> soil
> by mixing the soil
> whatever is still
> left in the jar
>
> how hesiod would embrace themis
> as pandora and man embrace
> by fire
> mixing
> (untranslatable)
>
> pharmakon
> where the sweat
> of metis
> fills the sack
>
> whatever the herm of salt
> whatever
> whatever mixing
> whatever
> whenever
> whatever remains in the belly
> it cannot end
> end by mixing
>
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