Kathleen Raine, 1908-2003

seraphimsigrist finds himself in the neighborhood of the late poet, whom I met once at the Lindisfarne Association, in a former Anglican church which was later a notorious disco, and is now for sale. It is the first I hear of her death; on my way to Pleasantville for our last monthly meeting I had been surprised to learn from Mark that she was still alive. A Yahoo search turns up her obituary in the Guardian:

"When asked how she wished people to remember her, Kathleen Raine said she would rather they didn't. Or that Blake's words be said of her: 'That in time of trouble, I kept the divine vision'. Better to be a sprat in that 'true ocean', she believed, than a big fish in a literary rock pool."

Kathleen Jessie Raine, poet, born June 14 1908; died July 6 2003

May the Powers be kinder to her than she ever dared to hope.

Bush BASHed

"We at Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals have BASHed enough so-called 'gays' with the blunt love of Jesus to know how to spot deviants across a crowded sale at Saks. Outside of Italian shoes, nothing sends up a rainbow-colored flare that you are dealing with a flaming homosexual more reliably than when a man breathlessly gushes the word 'faaabulous!' When a Christian lady hears this word outside of her hair salon or florist, she instinctively reaches for the Bible tracts in her purse because she knows a nancy boy is within throwing range.

'It's been a fabulous year for Laura and me.'
-- George W. Bush., three months after the World Trade Center towers went down.
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