Searching For Divinity In Sparks Poem by gershon hepner

“These are my principles, ” said Groucho Marx.
“If anybody doesn’t like them, I have others.”
Searching for divinity in sparks
is just like crying for the unspilt milk of mothers
who have no more to give because Prolactin
no longer is produced by their hypophysis;
arenas Godly people like to act in
may be as empty as unrented offices.



Adam Cohen writes about the Oscars (“And This Year’s Oscar Goes to...a Movie That Takes a Stand”)
in the NYT, March 5,2006:

Movies are not just entertainment; they also help to shape the public discourse. Oscar voters seem to be resisting today's increasingly impoverished political debate — one that badly distorts, or leaves out, issues like gay rights, race relations, the possibility of peace between Israelis and Palestinians and the media's role in safeguarding democracy. They may also be starting to move away from Hollywood's real ideology — not liberalism, but Groucho Marx's credo: 'Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I've got others.'

3/5/06