Posts for June 4, 2020 (page 8)

For our sh*thead neighbors

Now that I’ve had a day to cool off
I’ve realized you’re just cruel young men
With limited imaginations.
Sitting out back with a few beers
And shooting birds and squirrels
With a pellet gun must be
The height of entertainment,
Like a Wagner opera on opening night,
Especially now.
Sadly, this isn’t even the worst thing
That you will do.  
But I have to admit
With not a little shame
That I had hate in my heart
For all of you yesterday.
I don’t exactly regret it,
But God willing I can learn to forgive
And you can learn what love is
Before it’s too late.

They say, Picture a stream—
fine mist of digital water and the dappled
forest canopy–and you can’t picture anything. 

Surely, you’d ignore the pinch
of one thousand twelve digital pebbles
digging into your soft underbelly.

And the sun, hot overhead. You think,
if only I could just blend in
for long enough.

Maybe you’d become that stone, something
as sure and as permeant as air. 

Light through lidded eyes, waking the demons from the night before. 
Dark, they slink to the shadows, leaving pinholes of important things I know I should remember; points that disapper like mist in yellow rays on blue grass.

OPEN
Roll over.
Reach across the distance to my heart.
Thumb to unlock.

I’m bruised from the day before.  Love so hard it leaves an imprint.
Words undelivered and unread break more than sticks and stones.
My heart flayed, thoughts hemmorrhage through my fingertips.
Open eyes.
Open mouth.
Open legs.
I throw my head back.
Pale dawn grants only damp emptiness.

I’m lost.

Never felt the breeze splinter bare
Like I did in the moment that
I first saw you.
Rocking across oxygen, your
Smile deep, shy, bursting
To escape the hell you’d
Already been through.
Your eyes–sad and happy and
Hopeful–melting my mind,
Giving me hope too.
But, it was the soft graze of your hand
Across mine that made me
Know that loving you is
The only thing I ever wanted to
Do.

♡Anastasia Z. Cunningham 
06-04-2020

Lovely flash dancing brothers, sleek skin
& wavy hair, grace that white stage  

with leaps, splits, twists, coat tails
streaming, torsos coasting together, then  

apart on that slick surface, coming up
from splits as if pulled by a string,  

what magic you wove
with sinew & strength  

in the madhouse of a country
afire with noose & torch  

& frost-ridden faces lined
by midnight shadows.

~Brothers Fayard & Harold, 1914-2006 & 1921-2000, respectively, who became well-known during the Harlem Renaissance for their unique style of dancing, known as “flash dancing”

I have been shot several times
in dreams, but never by anyone
with skin darker than mine:

by a white man wearing a uniform
with a pistol, in a basement
interrogation room;

by a white man in a baseball cap
with a shotgun, in the front seat
of my car at a stop sign;

by a white man in tee shirt and jeans
with a rifle in my back yard,
where I had fled

when the shooting started.

Lily-white scars dot my mother’s body,

the largest being a crescent that cups her right knee

it’s thick, ruffled, and shiny with scar tissue

if I could pluck the scars from her body,

as easily as pulling feathers from sand,

I’d build her wings from her past hurts 

so she could fly

somewhere devoid of the forces that

would hurt her again

JOBS

jobs display status

jobs were started in the current environment

jobs conform to the Base Definitions.

The following options shall be supported:

−Provide more information about each job. This information shall include the job number, group, state, and the command that formed the job.

−Display the group leaders of the selected jobs.

By default display the status of all stopped jobs, running background jobs and all jobs whose status has changed and have not been reported.

the status information for all jobs shall be displayed.

environment shall affect the execution of jobs

Provide value for internationalization

Internationalization variables determine the values of locale categories

Determine the locale that should be used.

Determine the location.

The character identifies the job that would become the default if the current default job were to exit. At most one job can be identified.

If the job was terminated, it shall be visibly distinct.

different implementations have different strategies for defining the job.

The jobs does not work as expected

For this reason, jobs is generally implemented as a regular historical practice of control.

The job control features provided are based on standard characteristics

differences exist Despite widespread degree of uniformity with the rest of the features, regardless of the condition of job.

When the user has invoked control, jobs can still be used to examine the background. Similarly, kill can then be used.

The output for terminated jobs is left unspecified to accommodate various historical systems.

Most users should be able to understand.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.

*found poem (erasure) from Linux manual pages

global protesters, 

just action, Black Lives Matter,

covid & real news. 

Grief walks with us this

day/season/year, often one

step ahead/behind.

I dial it, but some numbers sink
below memory like 
stacks of papers and Post-its that shift
into ridges.
Lost digits sprout like weeds on my desk.
Area codes root loose.

Bloomed in salt rain, one rose vines up thin
column,
opens ten petals against grief-gray sky.