Death and Birthdays, Famine and Luck of the Irish -- Go Back to your Roots and Reassess

...as we starve and rape Gazans and Palestinians, the Yanquis and Klanadians Toast their Nothingness (Amnesiac) Roots . . . .

Paulo Kirk poem for my wife's birthday, today, and alas, it is the day, two years, when her hyounger brother died. AND, my spouse's 25 year old daughter has self-estranged herself going on four years. What lovely mother's and birth days for her.

But she resists the gloom temptation. Ofrenda’s in Portland!

pre-Hispanic ritual established more than 3,000 y…