Philip Poburka on wed 25 sep 02
'events'?...short ramble...
I am told...that some two hundred thousand people died last
year...from 'error' committed in Hospitals.
Another one hundred and seventy thousand, from iatrogenic
diseases, infections, contaminations or other aquired from
their 'doctor' in non-hospital settings.
I could note that both of my parents could be said to have
'died' from the attentions of their 'doctors', about as
readily as I should note the deaths of strangers, attributed
to the 'Aeroplanes' as were flown into the 'Towers' in New
York City.
Or as are attributed to the pesky 'Aye-Rhabs' as are said to
have comandeered the Aeroplanes...or attributed to seventy
years of 'foreign policy'....or are attributed to...Mr. Bin
Laden having (we may suppose, 'soft') 'drinks' with 'u.s.
senators' and high level american 'intelligence'
operatives...a few weeks afore...or senators who 'sold'
their 'American Airlines' Stocks...a few 'weeks' afore...or
whose 'buddies' did...whose golf-pals bought 'Anthrax'
interests...a little while afore...and...
...or attributable to...
Uhhh...what exactly are these deaths 'attributed' to?
Going 'up' the stairs...instead of 'down', when one is
'in'...a tall, 'burning' Building?
Is 'heat' not said...to 'rise'?
To what do we attribute things?...or decide is 'cause'?
I do not seem to know sometimes...
I forget the general 'statistics' for Highway Fatalities...
For death by effects of 'sulfites', aquires accidently in
the ingestion of Wine, in Salads ( as 'veg-white', etc)
among those people who are prone to the 'Asthma'...
More people likely have 'died' in 'rented rooms'...Nicola
Tesla did...and I think 'Billy Durant' ( whom you may recall
to have 'started' General Motors...)...
Death 'from' dis-eases as, with time become more and more
traced 'to', the 'Atomic' testing era and it's incidental
and ancillary frolics as say, of putting 'Plutonium' into
the necks of Car-Thiefs who were 'doing-time' in the
'pen'...justa-see-what-it-'do'...
More people have died every year for decades...from
'Aspirin' overdose, than from overdoses of Heroin...and
there shall likely be no 'shrines'...to that.
I am not sure, regardless of the eloquence of them, quite
how many 'memorials', shrines, comemmorations or
immemorations we ought build...or exactly to what they
indeed DO defer, or direct, our sympathies and attentions...
But then...I am maybe easily confused...
I do not know quite even for my own purposes...just 'how' to
define 'events', or to say if two-hundred-thousand people
a-year 'die' oweing I may suppose, to the tender sympathies
of Hospitals being guided by corporate 'boards' and
Stock-holders...ought be summarily dimissed as not at all
'interesting', since none of them 'jumped' from some
dramatic Heights for our attentions to be turned their
way...
I wonder on these things...
Whilst everyone else seems so certainly...to 'know'...
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lily Krakowski"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:29 PM
Subject: pain and sorrow
It is too bad, and yet quite wonderful, that the NY
sculpture is causing so
much controversy. It is however, inevitable, because in
situations such as
Sept 11, pain and sorrow and rage become all mixed up
together; and where
some howl, some weep, and others scream.
Having now seen the image of the sculpture I find it too
imitative to be
striking. And did we had not been told what it was about,
would not be
shocked.
However what bothers me, and I think bothers some who have
denounced it, is
the rushing into print aspect. As soon as a disaster
occurs there is some
reporter with a team of photographers pushing microphones
and cameras into
people's faces: "How do you feel, Joe, having your
classmates machine
gunned by a maniac? " How do you feel, Mrs X. now that the
raped and mangled
body of your six year old has been found?"
It is gross, it is absurd. And yet we have become so
conditioned to this
deranged form of instant gratification, that we do not ask
exactly why a
sculpture had to be provided by the first anniversary of
Sept. 11. How long
did it take for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to be put
up? Or the
Vietnam Memorial Wall?
I think it was Elie Wiesel who thought there should be ten
years of silence
before people spoke of the Holocaust. He was on the right
track.
I think that what is causing such strong disagreament and
argument is that
we all still are bewildered with pain, and not yet used to
its reality and
permanence.
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
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