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    America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur
    America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur
    America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur
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    America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur

    By Ronald B. Hill RM

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    America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur is an extensive ecopolitical treatise that delivers an intense overview of the key social maladies that plague todays world-- and their historical American, European, colonial, economic and ideological roots. It also provides a clear, bold and visionary formula and strategy for redemption. This is all engagingly presented, not only from an African American perspective, but from a cosmopolitan reality intended and guaranteed to stimulate and enhance the intellect of any reader regardless of ethnicity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 14, 2010
    ISBN9781449061203
    America: Truth Vs. Illusions of Grandeur
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    Ronald B. Hill RM

    The author is a product of the inner-cities of America. His background and analytic acumen providing the inspiration and fundamentals for the production of this book are not rooted in (nor constricted by) traditional academic paradigms, but rather 45 years of ongoing informal study, research, activism, travel and life experience. His personal and working associations with African American stalwarts such as Stokely Carmichael, Herman Ferguson, Amiri Baraka, et al are reminiscent hallmarks of his youth. Traumatic but fortifying persecution, exile, judicial entanglements and incarceration were brought to him consequent to his intimate involvement with the Black Panther Party and the social upheaval of the 60’s and 70’s. Over the years his keen grassroots insight and interpretation of key national and international circumstances and discord, have expanded far beyond the issues of race and deep into the historical, economic and political roots of global disharmony-- and the radical solutions it demands.

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      America - Ronald B. Hill RM

      Contents

      A Ritual for the Chaos

      Against All Orders

      As I See Myself Changing

      Bad Girl

      Cleveland in Gray Winter

      The Ballad of the Twin Towers

      Before I Was Afraid

      As It Should Be

      Blue Mother, Water Friend

      Cellular Talking

      Clean These Juices

      Couldn’t We Just?

      In The Blank Spaces

      Somewhere Else

      Dead or Alive

      Early Morning Breeze

      Eddie and Rain

      My Grandmother Died in Diapers

      Empty in the Center

      For Your Gender’s Sake

      Friends

      From a Dream of the Growing Boat

      Grounded

      Hickey’s Mountain

      How Clever You Are

      Lessons of the Garden

      Like the Ferris Wheel

      Falling

      Passing Through Chickamauga

      Lists

      Made in the USA

      Mrs. Rogers’ Eyes

      Squirrel in the Road

      My Father Took Me Places

      My Father’s Piece

      Tomato Summer

      My Mother Is a Class 3 River

      Road Trip

      Save Changes

      Saving Grace

      Ode to my Vibrator

      on the occasion of our ninth anniversary

      Present and Willing

      Rain

      Rare

      Resonance

      Thanksgiving

      The Breath

      The Children of Atlanta

      The Eyes Have It

      The Lull

      The Movements of Your Dance (1)

      The Movements of Your Dance (2)

      The Musicians

      The Nose Knows

      The Note

      The Old Man and His Dog

      The Power of Ms.

      The People of the South

      The Pink and White Room

      The Putting On of the Bra

      How You Use Me

      In Between

      The Rape of the Children Goes On and On

      The Secret

      The Woman in the Moon

      There: August 19, 1995

      This Is For You,

      To Betray the Memories

      To Fleetwood Who Died on June 28, 1994

      To Lose a Friend

      To Neil

      Today Some of us

      Travelling

      Violence in the Basement

      Whose Mirror Is It, Anyhow?

      Your Eyes

      I Am

      A Ritual for the Chaos

      you are the poem I want to ingest

      you are absolutely complete and perfect

      yet growing

      together we will examine the words, the gestures,

      the tones, the structure

      that are you

      together we will experience a performance

      that is you

      together we will learn how to see you growing

      and then together we will hear the song

      of you shaping you, testing rhythms

      till you find the ones that make

      your DNA hum true as it spirals

      through the chaos.

      let this be a ritual for the chaos.

      Against All Orders

      It is war.

      In spite of the commands

      to hold and wait

      my hands twitch to touch

      you my tongue

      pushes against my

      teeth wanting out

      to caress your flesh.

      My legs flex around your

      shadow and would draw you

      into them if they could.

      As I clamp shut the jaw,

      cross the legs with hands

      between

      I know it is war.

      The tail wags

      the heart pounds

      and saliva escapes the lips.

      It is war

      and the body is winning.

      As I See Myself Changing

      A monologue for a woman aged 40-60.

      Setting is a platform with a stationary bicycle and a chair or chair-height cube on it.

      A WOMAN comes out walking wearily, eyes down. She is dressed in dowdy exercise clothes. On stepping up to the platform, she raises her eyes to the audience—suddenly straightens up, smoothes her hair, shirt, pauses, then dismisses the effort and continues wearily to the stationary bicycle, climbs on, wipes sweat off her brow and begins to pedal with no energy, eyes down. 15 seconds pass….she glances at the audience, stops pedaling, glares at someone in the audience.

      Don’t you know it’s rude to stare? (She pedals 2 or 3 more turns and grumbles to herself) You’re not going anywhere, either. (pause).

      A body starts to lose muscle mass—maybe you don’t know that. Young people are so smug—they don’t think about getting older. Then, about the time you start to lose muscle mass—they don’t tell you this either—you start to lose the energy to do anything about it. You never know when your knees are going to buckle or when your whole body’s going to turn to tortured pudding… And just about the time you think you’ll get on this thing and save a little muscle mass, here comes a hot flash and all the pudding inside you just goes to a boil and you got steam coming out of your eyebrows…and you got to go lie down. (Stops pedaling, glares at the audience.) Are you smirking? (shouting) Hot Flashes! Change of Life! Menopause! Smirk, smirk, smirk! Let me give you one piece of advice: Don’t smirk at a menopausal woman! We can get pretty testy. (She pauses, gets off the bicycle and sits on the chair/cube or edge of platform.)

      Nobody really wants to talk about it—or even think about it. When this stuff started happening with me, I wanted to talk to some older women to find out more—what did you feel? How long did it go on? What did it mean to you? So, I’m sitting at the breakfast table with my mother and sister and I ask, What was menopause like for you? My sister smirks and reminds me that she had a hysterectomy when she was 38, as if that were very clever of her. My mother swallows a hem and a hah and says well, she seems to remember that her legs ached. Thank you very much! So much for family wisdom.

      So, back on my own. What does it mean? Will I really mind when the bleeding stops? No more pads, tampons, or double pads because tampons may not be safe? No more wearing dark clothing because I might leak. No more running

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