Our Ukraine
The war in Ukraine, a tale of pain,
Mobilization, preparations for war again,
Initial engagements, battles fierce,
Crimea taken, hearts filled with tears.
Escalation, the fighting intensifies,
Separatists supported by … Read more
Society
On Take-Offs and Layoffs
The news fuels take-offs – crypto rising, Southwest rebooking,
weapons trading, and lay-offs – alphabets, bladders, and cinemas
trending. The United States Supreme Court claims it’s unable to
identify the … Read more
Color of the Year ~ Viva Magenta
There are those washed-out days, ones my mom would
call the days of looking drained, colorless, as washed out
as bleached linen, the aftermath of sleeplessness and sadness,
the palette … Read more
Crypto: a new word for Ponzi (or Pyramid)
It’s right there in the name
if you’re capable of … Read more
Carrier of Souls
There is an owl who sits
on the shoulder of every man who takes his guns
into a nightclub, superstore, or anywhere
that life is for the taking.
When the … Read more
A Tale of Black Friday
In the early 1950s
on the day after Thanksgiving
kicking off the holiday season
there had been so many shoppers
in downtown Philadelphia
celebrating sale prices,
overflowing the streets
bunched … Read more
Twit Live-Tweets Twit’s Own Funeral
and no one notices Twit is
not dead and is live-tweeting Twit’s
funeral because everyone
is live-tweeting Twit’s funeral.
Twit leads the procession to Twit’s
gravesite. On the way Twit … Read more
Lockdown October 5, 2022
now on full lockdown
this is not a drill
Snapchat erupts with unfounded rumours
sadistic humors
we churn like a cumulus
count death with a calculus
huddle in a corner… Read more
Happy Meals & Unhappy Times
an abecedarian
(interrupted by two nuggets / two fries)
on happy meals & unhappy times
/ what happens when mcdonald’s nuggets are nothing
more than a reminder that lists (& … Read more
On Morality’s Many Prepositions and Propositions / We Are Committed to Resist and to Persist
Written to commit Mona Eltahawy’s words and work to memory
We are
More Than what’s
on/of/in
our beds
& the hues
on our heads
More Than what’s
between/amongst/within
our limbs… Read more
The Only Place They’ve Ever Known
When some decide to not evacuate,
referring to those souls who have a choice,
in war or weather leaving up to fate
preferring God or luck to have a voice … Read more
Lying in State
Celebrity cults on public display
from Academy Award ceremonies
to World Trade Center tributes,
farewell funerals to space station
concerts where droning bagpipes
shatter interstellar serenity; wheezing
bellows nurture reeds … Read more
No Longer Yours
Dearest politicians,
Don’t call me senseless.
Don’t call me by a different self.
Don’t call me this or that
Or anything else
I can’t stand it,
I have no time—… Read more
Promise Me
that you will put me in a gun
and shoot my loneliness from me
when I turn into a bullet
throw me into a river
so my swimming body can … Read more