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Cosmic Riptide

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A surrealist fiction with A.I. generated illustrations.... by Mike Pearson  Undercover agents of a future fore warned by the ancient voices from the backroom of the universe.  Sumerian newcomers marvelled at what had come before. The vastness of forever laid out before then. Songs of Forever  Swimming in salmonella rivers with tangerine laughing ghosts that have seen it all before. In awe and dusty tears of gratitude and fear. Entropic corroded gears and levers work feverishly to keep up with demand for horizons , zeniths and molecules.  Death had to be invented when the curiosity got too overwhelming and someone volunteered to go into the black cranberry night of electric soul magic.  We have been waiting ever since, killing and starving in feverish fervour .....in hidden hope that someone might get in touch and ask us to stop sending souls to the time grinder Looking back behind the horizon Welcome to the arrival of yesterday yet again Against the fence as hi...

Sam Fitzpatrick, Death on a Kiewit Project / Media Collections

  A Collection of News Articles About Sam Fitzpatrick's 2009 Death on a Kiewit Project Squamish Chief Newspaper https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-man-dies-at-toba-inlet-3338076 The WorkSafeBC report on the Sam Fitzpatrick workplace death on Kiewit project http://thetyee.ca/Documents/2013/04/07/Toba Inlet Worksafe Report.pdf Sam Cooper/ The Province Newspaper https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-province/20120513/281655367103737?srsltid=AfmBOoqo12MWnxyhX_L0rJuuBG2Sj0Bf1uA9_hpqJ3GAayAoEeIpXs1e Construct Connect https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2009/03/kiewit-rock-scaler-dies-at-toba-inlet-project-dcn032848w The Tyee https://thetyee.ca.nmsrv.com/Analysis/2019/09/02/Death-On-Job-Criminal-Trial-Contractor/ CBC Bethany Lindsay https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-sam-fitzpatrick-death-kiewit-eleventh-anniversary-1.5469468 Construct Connect https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/ohs/2021/09/timeline-the-case-of-kiewit-and-sam-fitzpa...

My Original Song..." I'll Not Be Back This Way Again" for Brian Fitzpatrick

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I wrote this song several years after my friend, Brian Fitzpatrick died. Press play in the above Youtube video. For my friend, Brian Fitzpatrick ( Fitz) by Mike Pearson Brian's son, Sam Fitzpatrick was killed on a Kiewit corporation project in the steep mountains of Toba Inlet in 2009. Fitz and I went into battle against the giant American corporation when they refused to take any responsibility for Sam's death. Fitz fought heroically, and with dogged determination. The battles with the WorksafeBC system...The very flawed WCAT appeal process all took a toll.All the challenges were met with intelligence, good humour and the belief that we were on the right side. After years of bureaucratic struggle, Fitz finally persuaded the RCMP to lay charges against the company and two supervisors, Tim Rule and Jerry Karjala. This was a game changer...nothing like this had ever happened with a workplace death in BC. Sam Cooper's 2012 article in the Province Newspaper....this story g...

On Beverage Choices

A man's beverage choices ...a rambling tour of the unseen and invisible. Mike Pearson 2024 Which beer brand is acceptable for the working class adventurer?...at the edge of possibilities, on the brink of self discovery. Beer divisions...beer types... sipping craft prototype inventions, or throwing empty Bud cans at stop signs? Which spirited booze with which beer...? working class choices. Those with feet planted and tense jaw muscles making a fuss about what someone else drinks...But...its not your tongue, not your mouth, not your belly. Not your call. Good try though...trying to make the world smaller and more tightly bound. Experiments with taste vs social safety Social safety ( the opinion of the group) Social status level vs freedom to choose a beverage. Don't make beverage choices outside of your social circle...unsafe. ridicule and exile for drinking the wrong beer.  It's so important to drink what the group approves of...to fit in...to be seen and invisible at the s...