Scott Olsen Speaks Again: the #Occupation Rejoices (a poem)

To Scott Olsen, Marine, 

Veteran of the Oakland Occupation

Standing straight, saluting, sometimes smiling  --  Spirit shining

Courage creating choice, choosing clarity, certain, calm 

Offers one opportunity, obvious over others:

To take the time to teach things thorough

To tell the teachers to teach the truth

O #OccupyOakland, obstinate, outspoken 

Learning, living, laughing, loving

Successes surely seem

Effective, even earned,

Now

faust's poem 2 Anonymous: "The Spirit Immortal"

the spirit immortal

(or, in starry eyed admiration dedicated to Anonymous)

All the best of us, hackers, wings far from untested,

attain our prize but per accindens –although few of us guessed it –

the rest are intending, (to practice) or

dependent, per...
- haps,

 ...on the defaults reconfigured --
(our own, or our app's).*

:philosophies hammerless : dreams lacking anvils :

:contending
(- in theory- ) 
:for the souls of immortals:    
                                                                                                                                                               we see their errors turn fatal, prove vapor, 
where shown but void due to muteness, that threatened to 0wn

& still they have stayed – with us – 
                                      were staid – to us – 
                                                                  would state "us," & quo –

Ut alteri vadis, warranto; alteri quorum, quid pro.

This is causa enough (should reason persever) 

to recognize, laugh at, and ---

(but be sure to remember

to anticipate everything 

while expecting it never)

---exlploit cheerfully, thoroughly, such evil endeavor.

Success (of course) is your proof,

by your choice,

at whatever:

to know, and to will, and to dare demand never

be told of the odds

that one changes

if clever.

 

through many revisions was yet draft: 2007 - 2010; now and forevermore dedicated to Anonymous

*with this line a revision dedicated to Douglas Rushkoff

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