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There is not much presently in the Stark County, Canton-Massillon, Ohio area. Via neoprogressivearts.org there was a place for the local Artist who didn't believe in pretending that success is measured by painting or being bought by those with the most available cash to buy your work. I am working, talking, pushing actually, for the person that once headed this local group to begin afresh. There are other places locally, however they are well established and do not invite the younger or unrecognized. At neoprogressivearts both the established as well as the neophite were welcomed as well as heard and or shown. Thankfully I have been consistently invited to Read with local professors, the professionals, though I have always loved being a bookseller, independent, and now am a gm of a local movie rental store. It has seemed that I have never gone too long without meeting a new friend, common old souls to walk with in these things. This is the primary way that my own Art has never seemed to die. Again, I am grateful. I do love the interaction with people of the extremes and near paths. Both of these areas of business have allowed me over the years to have this. Somehow I have always been able to express myself freely both in general as well as in the business settings that I've found myself. This is a gift of some sort of which I am most grateful. Art, I believe, in all Art's variances is the voice of voiceless, the heart and soul of world. Without this we are less than machanistic non-beings. Of course the truth is that we, all beings and things, are never truly non-being. I deplore sycriticim, the elimination of the person's personal beauty. Yet there is no true beauty alone. It is said that one is not ever living for another, yet at the same time never able to live alone. This is the Art of living. I hope that we can again do some new things locally. We each can say, 'I am.'
Thank you for your indulgence as well as for your own beauty of person. Continue. timothy

'note the guitar' timothy r gates, 07/13/2006

fits into your middle
or, between your legs
if played patiently,
persistently,
aggressively, but intuitively
curves like a girl,
unless you want her to be a boy,
she'll comply
or, you'll comply
if you suck at playing, you better learn
it'll show you for what you are
or, if you don't know who you are
you'll be fucked
but not in a good way,
the way that makes the word make sense
note the guitar
and the guitar will note you
ignore the guitar
and the guitar will not respond
you will suck
again, not in a good way
you'll most likely blame the guitar
but you'll be the ass
hold the curves into your frame tight,
play with maturation's knowing,
let someone who thinks they know how to play
play power chords,
my guitar 'gently weeps', at times
she also makes me cum
my guitar is never the blame
for what I'm too damn lazy to know
I note my guitar
Damn, I love her frets

Mid-term local and federal elections are basically completed. Too bad that in a country where it is a freedom to vote that we're not able to have a mere fifty percent of 'our' people do so. People say that it doesn't change anything. This is why it often doesn't. 'Representative Democracy' is what our government claims to be, this is the definition of a Democratic Republic. Yet, and this is the sad situation in our nation, if the potential voting population doesn't become responsible with the freedom to vote we will in time be guaranteed to lose it. The old proverb, 'If you don't use it you lose it.' I am a liberal, not a political liberal, rather a person who in truth, I believe, affirms all of our people, relative to our own situation in this comment, should have the constitutional protected right to be wrong, to embrace lunacy, to be quantifiably blown away, even medically, crazy, and to express it as long as they do not violate another's. In truth since the Patriot Act (sic) and the courts, all the way to the Supreme Court, reinterpreting the Constitution and its amendments, we have lost many of our protections by this same constitution. This is true for both those finding themselves on the left or the right of what is 'accepted' political expression of beliefs. We are only free, 'free-men/women/persons', if we choose to act out as free. For me, I want the conservatives that I disagree with to be in truth free to publicly speak wherever, this is how they and their opinions are shown for what they are. I still pray that the ideal of our founding land-stealers and then land-owners to grow into the hearts and souls of all our citizens. I still pray that the 'all' in our Preamble and the 'all' in our Constitution and its amendments will one day in truth include all.
just a few, but not all, post election thoughts,
one without few words,
timothy

'Lavender' (trg, 11/14/03)

Have you ever longed

for the smell, ever so slightly of lavender,

being caught in your nose's breath

as you lay upon a bead of velvet

sprinkled with red and deep purple roses,

the odor of sweet apples and large almost black grapes

fall down over your hands and their middle?

I have.



'Sea Air' (trg, 11/14/03)

You looked up and then later down,

thinking that you smelled the ocean's waves,

touching, releasing and doing so again,

bringing a different blend of aromas

never to be mistaken for another,

apples with a sweetened bitter taste

calling me to the red and deep purple roses,

asking me if I'm too full?

Never of this air.