Short tales of transcendent drinking from around the world. New editions every afternoon. Honestly, the thing that gets me the most out of this—other than the nightmarish horror of whoever had to build seven of these things watching each one be destroyed. Song of Myself. Won't you help support Day. Poems? 1. 81. 9- 1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ![]() ![]() I do not know what it is any more than he. I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you; ). The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great. On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Conservative media juggernaut Matt Drudge has long been a defender of and even a reported advisor to Donald Trump. He’s never seen a negative story about our. The Marvel Cinematic Universe or MCUnote dubbed Earth-199999 of the Marvel multiverse is a combined setting produced by Marvel Entertainment and Marvel. The crew of the fish- smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold. The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle. As the fare- collector goes through the train he gives notice by the. The floor- men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the. In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers. Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it. Seventh- month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!). Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows. Off on the lakes the pike- fisher watches and waits by the hole in. The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep. ![]() Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton- wood or pecan- trees. Coon- seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through. Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas. Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw. Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great- grandsons. In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after. The city sleeps and the country sleeps. The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time. The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife. And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them. And such as it is to be of these more or less I am. And of these one and all I weave the song of myself. I resign myself to you also- -I guess what you mean. I behold from the beach your crooked fingers. I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me. We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land. Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse. Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you. I will accept nothing which all cannot have their. I am possess'd! Iowa, Oregon, California? O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Comment on Day. Poems? If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, Day. Poems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at Day. Poems Feedback. Won't you help support Day. Poems? Click here to learn more about how you can keep Day. Poems on the Web . All rights reserved. The authors of poetry and other material appearing on Day. Poems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of Day. Poems will gladly assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors. Trump may have been right about Sweden. The trouble began when police tried to arrest a teenage member of a notorious drug- dealing gang. Within hours, the snowy streets of Rinkeby, a northern suburb of the Swedish capital Stockholm, had erupted into violence with his fellow gang members hurling Molotov cocktails at passing vehicles, torching parked cars, throwing rocks and looting shops. The mob fought with police to free 1. Maikal Hassan, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, and as they advanced, one officer drew his pistol and fired a shot at the gang and missed, while others shot high into the air to try to scare the masked youths. Trump was reported — incorrectly — as claiming there had been a . Even then the disturbance continued until the early hours. The riots on Monday night in Rinkeby, a migrant ghetto known locally as . They came just two days after Donald Trump, the U. S. President, was widely ridiculed for comments he made at a rally in Florida last weekend. Who’d believe this? They took in large numbers . They’re having problems like they never thought possible.’In fact, he had been referring to a report on Fox News, which blamed an alleged breakdown in law and order in Sweden on an influx of migrants over the past 2. Trump was reported — incorrectly — as claiming there had been a . In fact, he had been referring to a report on Fox News, which blamed an alleged breakdown in law and order in Sweden on an influx of migrants over the past 2. Trump’s comments drew immediate derision from the Swedish government and pro- migrant groups, which gleefully pointed out that the most interesting item in the Swedish news that day had been a photograph of a live elk trying to mount a wooden elk. King Carl Gustaf said it is . King Carl Gustaf said it is . Some 1. 7 million have arrived since the Nineties, transforming a country with a population of just ten million. In the past two years alone — as war in Syria and Afghanistan, and conflict and poverty elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa has fuelled mass migration — Sweden has taken in 2. Now, in the wake of Trump’s claims, the riots in Rinkeby this week and reports that some 3. Swedes have joined Islamic State, that open- door policy and its consequences are under scrutiny as never before. Once home to working- class Swedes, Rinkeby’s population is now 9. The few Swedes who remain called the place Little Mogadishu not just because of the large population of Somalis, but because — as in the Somali capital — violence and fear are endemic. Maikal Hassan, the young man whose arrest led to the disturbances, was a member of the . I never go out after dark and don’t carry much money. It’s too dangerous.’Now, in the wake of Trump’s claims, the riots in Rinkeby this week and reports that some 3. Swedes have joined Islamic State, that open- door policy and its consequences are under scrutiny as never before. Pictured, the Rinkeby riots. As I arrived at Rinkeby underground station this week, I was approached by a group of a dozen or so young foreign men who tried to sell me hard drugs — even though police patrols were less than 1. When I ignored them, they turned their backs. I headed away from them towards the shops, many bearing Arabic script, and restaurants offering specialities from Africa and the Middle East. The gangs here rule by fear — and even warn shopkeepers when they are going to be burgled, telling them they will get back a small cut of the takings as long as they do not raise the alarm. Many feel they have little choice but to comply. There is nothing I can do. If I report them to the police they will torch the store. There are usually about 4. One man who knows from bitter experience about the reality of life in Rinkeby is Hanif Azizi, the officer responsible for policing the area. On Monday, as the police faced the rioters, he says he told a colleague: . Pictured, a burnt- out car in Rinkeby. At his office a mile from the flashpoint, dressed in plain clothes and with a pistol tucked into his belt, he admitted that, regardless of claims by the Swedish government, many areas are firmly in the control of foreign criminal gangs. There are so many that you can’t handle them. The people here don’t think they are part of Swedish society. They listen to the imams at the mosque more than they listen to us. These criminals are in control.’An Iranian immigrant who came to Sweden aged nine, Mr Azizi blamed social ills, lack of officers, 'passive' policing, and sentences being too soft for criminals, and that anyone helping police was more likely to be punished by their community than praised. Immigrant gangs are said to control several other areas of Stockholm. In a recent report, police admitted there are a staggering 5. If caught, the youths, who have no ID documents, claim to be under 1. As I arrived at Rinkeby underground station this week, I was approached by a group of a dozen or so young foreign men who tried to sell me hard drugs — even though police patrols were less than 1. It must be a wretched life for these youngsters. It has been reported that six Afghan child refugees have committed suicide in Sweden in the past six months as the government attempts to care for 2. The authorities stand accused of trying to cover up crimes involving migrants, including alleged sexual assaults committed at a recent music festival, and at New Year celebrations in the capital. The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention statistics for 2. While it is not clear who is to blame for this increase, the National Council’s annual security survey found that immigrants were 2. Swedish citizens. Yet, despite this, the Swedish government continues to dismiss allegations that immigration is to blame in part for the rise in crime and civil unrest, saying any problems were due to . Fredrik Lundh Sammeli, a spokesman for the ruling Social Democratic Party, told me that . Whatever the truth, at the very least there has been a massive failure of integration. And, as in other European countries with rising immigrant populations, this has promoted the rise of Far Right groups. In Sweden, such groups have been accused of a series of fire bombings of mosques, as well as violent attacks on drug dealers and street children. Politically, the beneficiary of growing anger about migration and its impact has been the Swedish Democrats, a Right- wing party that won 1. A poll this week showed it is now backed by more than one in four Swedes. It has been reported that six Afghan child refugees have committed suicide in Sweden in the past six months as the government attempts to care for 2. Mattias Karlsson, leader of the party in the Swedish parliament, told me he was . This is not only in Rinkeby. Now we have problems in our towns and cities that we did not dream could be possible ten years ago. People have had enough.’So where did it all go so badly wrong for Sweden? With a rapidly ageing population, the country began to welcome migrants from countries such as Turkey in the late Seventies, even arranging flights to bring in workers, who received the same generous welfare payments as locals. But from 2. 01. 1 onwards, the rate of immigration accelerated as those who arrived alone were allowed to send for their families once they were admitted. Many of these new arrivals are economic refugees. Saeb Al- Saedy, a mechanical engineer originally from Baghdad, lives in Rinkeby and admits that there are . The unemployment rate among Swedes is 4 per cent, but among migrants it’s 2. There are terrorists who are Muslims. But how many people were killed by Hitler?’Such comments infuriate Swedes, who believe newcomers should be grateful to live in a country — funded by progressive personal taxation of up to 5. She hopes if she has to use it, it will disable an assailant long enough for her to flee. They shout comments about me, and laughed when I used to go jogging. Now, I feel scared even in daylight. I won’t even wear headphones in case I can’t hear someone creeping up to attack me.’Such is the price that Sweden appears to be paying for its liberal and well- meaning policies, with a growing number of areas in its major cities where even the police fear to tread, let alone law- abiding citizens. This may be an issue fraught with social and political complexities. But at its heart is the question increasingly convulsing nations across Europe: just how can they assimilate ever- growing number of migrants without creating dangerous social divisions that only serve to inflame extremism? American Psychoanalytic Association Says Its Members Are Free to Weigh in on Donald Trump's Obviously Troubled Mind. This month, the American Psychoanalytic Association told its roughly 3,5. Freudian president in the White House. According to Scientific American, one of the association’s past presidents, Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, said the rule change was motivated by “belief in the value of psychoanalytic knowledge in explaining human behavior. We don’t want to prohibit our members from using their knowledge responsibly.”The rule change was in part necessary since President Donald Trump’s “behavior is so different from anything we’ve seen before,” Gourguechon added. Professional restrictions on diagnosing the mental health of public figures, which opponents refer to as a “gag rule,” has long been a matter of contention within the mental health field—but it’s become a particularly tense debate as of late. No wonder, given Trump’s tendency to go to war with his own staff and allies over perceived slights, rambling Twitter threats and that time this week he demanded the Boy Scouts pledge him their loyalty. Within the American Psychiatric Association, the much larger organization that claims a membership of over 3. Goldwater Rule.” (An unscientific and extremely controversial 1. Republican nominee Barry Goldwater was mentally unfit to be president, weighing in with descriptions like “paranoid” and “grossly psychotic.”) While violating the rule can only result in associational sanctions like being kicked out of the APA, not revocation of medical degrees or licenses to practice, it’s still a powerful deterrent. Prominent psychiatrist Dr. Leonard Glass published an editorial in Psychiatric Times this month resigning from the latter APA, saying the rule had grown more draconian this year with a new interpretation“that comments about a public figure’s affect and behavior constituted an unethical professional opinion.”Glass wrote tighter restrictions on statements by psychiatrists “made a fundamental error conflating a . It’s not calling for reckless abandon, either: Gourguechon told the Atlantic it would be unethical for a psychiatrist to “guess what’s going on in somebody’s mind,” but that offering general insights like whether particular presidential behaviors were “impulsive” are fine. Trump is almost certainly such a significant outlier that some of his behaviors need to be weighed in on by professional mental health experts. Just listen to the guy speak for five minutes, and it becomes very hard not to think there’s something deeply wrong going on in there. But there’s also grounds to wonder if relaxing a rule designed to prevent the political weaponization of a medical discipline could have consequences long beyond the current moment. We do live in an age of Dr. Phils, massive stigmatization of mental health issues and politicians quite eager to call their opponents insane. Trump’s “psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting, and analyzing them will not halt his headlong power grab,” the Duke University School of Medicine’s Dr. Allen Frances, one of the authors of the criteria on narcissistic personality disorder, wrote in the New York Times in February.
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