Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets Claude Mayers

Going back in time to that insurrection day, January 6 2021, reflections come. As with this poem (off by one year, mea culpa s'il vous plait) Donald and Dear Dad Fred interacted, his father still in his mind today impelling him to Never Surrender. Relect with me, with credits to Mary Trump, psychologist and niece
of Donald . . .

Jimmy Buffett helped us change our latitudes and our attitudes as we followed his beloved, happy, sometimes philosophic, energetic music. Millions of us Buffett fans around the globe are still grieving while listening and celebrating Jimmy's tunes. When I watched the spontaneous Key West parade for Jimmy during Labor Day weekend 2023, it inspired me to write my personal reaction to this vast gulf that had opened up in our lives when Jimmy surprisingly (to me and many others). 'When I Get Emotional (for Jimmy Buffett)' may express your emotions and perspective. It is a 3-minute embellished video with surf and some of Jimmy's key lyrics. To our Mother Mother Ocean, Jimmy, and the joy of music.

Claude Mayers -- featured poet @ the Feb 11 2023 All Souls Second Saturdays Poetry Reading. He reads for 20 minutes after the introduction by host/poet Dan Kerr, & the welcoming // two poems from Suffolk County (LI, NY) Poet Laureate Richard Bronson. Claude starts with 'Change The Plumbing To Poetry' @ 8:30 on the timeline, from the beginning of the recording. Then he returns for 5 more minutes, reading 3 poems: one about viewing a tsunami wave from a safe height; then two sequential short poems about surf from Thanksgiving & the Next Day, November 2002.

There are a few audio glitches which we hope to pre-emptively transcend (as possible, depending on the mind of the listener):

4:12 Richard Bronson -- 'Subterfuge' & '1st Do No Harm'

8:30  'Change The Plumbing To Poetry (After Richard Brautigan)  -- Poetry existential / Or recreational

11:25 'Lovers' Escape,' (two lovers/activists who note they may be funded abundant -- opposing blatant greed that jukes the powerful to need more epicenters from which to bleed the populace of their equity . . . )

13:38 The Charming -- 'At Daybreak . . . Francis Flake' -- for those who love cake

14:26 'Every Morning'    [last words are: to what I give and how I'm minded]

15:01 'I Open Myself To The Universe'

15:46  'For Kahlil Gibran' -- Logic falters at the diamond footpaths / Crossing before the palace / Empower the boldness of you

16:17   'Shuddupp!!'  -- for the late-starting woman driver, driving in the passing lane, I sitting next to her, The powerless teenage son telling her she should switch lanes . . .She ignoring me . . .

18:50  'C. In The First Citizens Bank Parking Lot' bangs into the pick-up again cracking its bumper. She pulls up beside the unattended vehicle, checks her own car, brushes with her fingers, upset slightly that she's done a bit of damage . . . says she hates driving in Scarborough as she hesitantly exits the lot . . . 

20:40  'Virginia Car Crash 4-26-22'  She was driving her car . . There were tornado warnings & freeze alerts . . . .

22:24   'In Your Next Life You Will Have A Moustache' for a stewardess . . .by the time she returned with a tiny white straw & pink napkin . . . What was causing him to fell strange -- via his unconscious memory in his next body . . .

25:18  'Pursitis' -- for the ladies, after a hard evening at the Dali museum carrying the heavy Coach bag from painting to painting Surreal/Impressionistic/Faces hidden subtly  -- Parononia / Ships passing / smoke trailing / Beyond a multicolored pastel beach . . . Could she have checked the object, sat upon the lightweight portable seats provided / All the pill bottles, lipsticks, Panamanian money, St. Anthony medals, Prayers to Mary, The Pinchas Book of Healing . . .

27:29   'Fenda Benda'  -- Orange lemurs nibbling bananas in the trees / Traffic on the main highway heavy . . . While the man in the Mercedes cellphoned his busty blue-eyed babe, Smoking on a stogie, Watching the ferris wheel turn / So early in the day . . .

29:40 Dan Kerr, Open Read: Marvin, Shu, Dan Kerr, Kathy Donnelly

41:30 Encore Claude Mayers 'After The Tsunami Alarm' Struggling anyway / Stretching for the last handrail / The Buddha watching you . . .Dream afternoons/With the snow shining / In the aftermath / Of a blizzard / Damp branches crackling / The fire steady / The tea still warm . . . 

44:18 'Tropical Thanksgiving Yesterday 2002 (The Tubes Were Groovin')' . . . the wind offshore / the inside sections hollow / and perfect / Cruising inside them / 100 yard long rides . . .

45:29  'Next Day' . . . . Dropping in /Seeing the perfect line ahead / Those tubes waiting / When we reached / The inside hollows / Of a magic glorious day . . .

46:00  Conclusion  

Jeffrey Smith, the leading spokesperson concerning the dangers of genetically engineered food and microbes, is interviewed by Claude Mayers.

GMO = Genetically Modified Organism

     Your 'foods' can be killing you! Synthetic foods produced in labs using the latest imprecise technology of gene-editing is discussed -- which Mr. Smith calls “GMO 2.0.” Resulting mutant microbes and toxic foods can threaten our health and that of the planet. Cancer-causing chemical poison glyphosate (main ingredient in “Roundup”), sprayed a few days pre-harvest on currently non-GMO wheat, oats, garbanzo beans, etc., without any labelling/indication for the consumer, in addition to being sprayed on GMO “Roundup Ready” crops like corn, canola, soy, cottonseed (many of you eat cottonseed as an oil that is part of your baked products; check your ingredients), sugar beets (~55% of USA sugar comes from GMO sugar beets), & zucchini, is revealed. The benefits of organic food to avoid these dangers, and heal those adversely afflicted by their GMO-laden diet, are offered. The cheap availability of gene-editing kits like CRISPR costing as little as $169 for home use, or in high school science classes -- then the resulting microbes randomly produced, being flushed down the drain to disperse into our water, soil, and air -- is also revealed.

     Mr. Smith lists diseases of the gut, nervous system, immune system as possibly being caused by a diet contaminated with GMOs and herbicides/pesticides, like glyphosate. This includes intestinal disorders, cancers, autism, brain fog, hypertension. His movie “Secret Ingredients” follows the DiChiare family, where marathon runner mother Kathleen becomes unable to walk, three children develop autism, but all are improved to near normal levels with a strict organic diet, avoiding toxic chemicals like glyphosate whenever possible.

     Also discussed is Europe's media reporting the scandal around the firing of chief researcher Arpad Pusztai of Scotland’s Rowett Institute, resulting in Europe essentially keeping grocery shelves free of GMOs, in contrast to the USA. In Europe, if any food has more than 1% GMO ingredients, then the food must be labelled GMO. In essence, the USA has no labelling requirements for GMOs. Americans are generally ignorant about the dangers of GMOs, in comparison to our more scientifically informed European brethren.

     Microbes and our microbiome being adversely affected by the newest processes of gene-editing are discussed. Mr. Smith quotes Nature magazine stating such gene-editing can cause “chromosomal mayhem.” Kiran Krishnan, microbiologist, is quoted as saying “80 percent of human diseases have their source in imbalance in our microbiome.” The microbiome, the unique personal population of cells and microbes that are part of each of us, that total 10 times more cells than the number of cells of our body, is related to illness and health. “We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us microbes can travel, mutate, swap genes with other microbes.” Bacteria in close proximity exchange genes; have what Mr. Smith calls “bacterial sex.” Imagine what could happen if some pathologic microbes are produced, and infiltrate nature’s sacred realm, which could rapidly happen worldwide, as what happened with COVID-19.

FYI: approximately 95 percent of all corn, canola, soybeans, and cottonseed, in the USA and Canada are GMO. Approximately 55 percent of sugar comes from GMO sugar beets. None of these have to be labelled, as they would have to be if offered in Europe. Wheat, oats, citrus, most other foods and crops other than the above have not become GMO . . . yet.  The answer to avoid these basic but GMO versions of these foods: is to eat them in organic form. Raise your own crops in your own healthy garden or on your precious plot of land.

The spirit of Trump is still with us in the halls of white supremacist power. Gov Brian Kemp of Georgia signalled to the white policemen present in the Georgia State Capitol last week on 3-25-21 to arrest Ga Representative Park Cannon for daring to knock on the closed doors where/while Kemp was signing the state's racist voter suppression bill into law, flanked by six old white men, with the idyllic painting of a sunlit slavery plantation behind them as a backdrop. 244 other similar bills have been proposed all across the USA in 43 states, by Republicans who cannot win without keeping potential antagonistic voters away. Included in the Georgia bill that discriminates against people of color and poor people, extremely reducing number of dropboxes in black and hispanic neighborhoods, cutting back places to vote, and numbers of days for early voting, including only allowing one Sunday when black voters can visit polling places transported with fellow church members in their "souls to the polls" campaign. The most egregious and cruelly insane of all the components of the new law is the criminalizing of sharing water and food with people forced to wait in terribly long lines for hours because of the discriminatory practices the law will perpetuate and worsen.

The reference to the former Chilean dictator Pinochet popped onto the page probably because praise for this horrible mass-murderer is surfacing recently in right wing autocratic media. And you know about Auschwitz. Where the ovens burned night and day immolating Jews and gypsies in the days of Adolf Hitler. 

Newly elected Senator Rafael Warnock, who happens to also be the pastor for Rep. Cannon, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta - where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. used to preach - has stated "We will keep knocking at that door." 

As the good ole boy racist network now stands naked, after so brazenly passing such a monstrous racist law for all to see  - - - 

Well, the nightmare of being weighed upon by the vulgar racist denigrating consciousness of the now-departing #45 should be over today. Joe Biden and a new era begin this afternoon. This poem was written Jan 18, 2021. May we all unite and love one another again. There's reason. Even if the major factor in the vacuum is the negative of Donald departing from any significant power over 330 Million Americans.