EXPLODING

MEN ARE DOING BAD THINGS AGAIN / MILD DECEMBER RAIN IN DC / GUNPOWDER SCENT KISSES THE FAR HORIZON / WORDS AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE / PODIUMS TUMBLE INTO THE DRY GULCH / A MARKER-SIGNED MISSILE / WHISTLES INTO THE MIDDLE / OF 100 LIVES / LIKE A DREAD METALLIC EGG / HATCHING FEVERS & DEATH FUNGUS /PRESSURE IN THE OBLITERATING RAIN / WHAT ONCE WAS STARS AND DISTANT CLOUDS / SEEN AS IDEAS OVER THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN / IS A SKY OF WHIRRING FIRE SOUNDS / CATS SCATTER BENEATH COLLAPSED AWNINGS / SKETCHBOOK PAGES PINNED UNDER STONES / THE OUTLINE OF AN APPLE / A SLICE OF BREAD / A TEACUP / TRACED IN PENCIL / UNFINISHED

Tucker Carlson on Jimmy Dore, 12/29/23

 

Pages Shot into the Night

 

December 8, 2023

The revolution won't be televised

But the genocide will

And the Ecuador rep

Announcing the vote

Asks "¿En contra?"

"Against?" says the translator

A glassy half grin

On the US rep's face

He can't believe he's on

The UN floor

The lives of thousands

Poised in the air -

Mothers and grandmothers

Children confused by the rumbles

And land shocks -

And raises his arm

On the grimmest of missions

For the declining old man

"En contra"

Let the buildings fall

The walls all burn down

And the mosques collapse

Mosaic tile streaked with dust

Blisters and buckles

Licked by flames

Let the libraries explode

The lines of poets

Refaat Al-Areer Mahmoud

Darwish Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

Shot into the Gaza night

Like birds rising from the ground

And flying moonward

Pages shadows verses

To read To weep To wail