ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTY-FOURTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Sitting outside the medical centre,

waiting four hours until the dentist's

appointment, I read Burnett's

Little Caesar. A book that ends

where later mob epics would begin,

the protagonist glimpsing the heights

and kicked down to a back alley

to die. After the Corleones,

we have come to expect more,

Caesar becoming an Emperor.

30.11.2023

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THE EYES OF THE UNIVERSE

The universe cuts off a piece of itself,

makes for it a dress from bone and flesh,

lets it run around a few decades

amidst its own myriad wonders,

gazing and observing, amazed,

then lays aside the bone and flesh,

unites its piece with its whole,

having seen itself with fresh eyes.

29.11.2023

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THE WAVES AND THE DEW

We are but foam on the great

waves, haze on the morning meadow,

briefly here, one among uncounted,

and never again shall light

touch and caress our mortal being

when our flesh has become one

with what lies under the waves

and the haze and the dew.

29.11.2023

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JUST LIKE YOU

For thousands of billions of days

I was not, yet all the misteps of deep

history led to me, and here I am,

an accident of plate tectonics

and evolution and cosmology.

of uncounted difficult pregnancies

and births and sheer blind luck

multiplied through generations

from the ocean to the savannah

and the taiga and the tundra.

All roads in history lead to me,

and all roads diverge from me,

towards the future where, if

I am lucky, I will be a jawbone

in a glass cabinet, or a subroutine

in an ancestral simulation. For

thousands of trillions of days

I will reverbate, a fading,

never dying echo, just

like you, just like you.

29.11.2023

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FIVE DEAD CHILDREN AT THE AL-NASER HOSPITAL IN GAZA STRIP

Five children, four of them babies,

left behind to die at the Al-Naser hospital

in Israeli occupied Palestine's besieged Gaza Strip

after Israel's occupation troops forced the staff to

leave without them. But to the 'West' this is nothing

but righteous 'self-defence' by Israel's regime.

Worms were crawling on their decomposing

bodies after three weeks, but those were merely

the worms of righteous 'self-defence'.

29.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTY-THIRD DAY OF THE YEAR

Words knitted into sentences

just a futile attempt to carve

meaning into fluid time.

It will erase all and run

dry into an empty ocean.

29.11.2023

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THE VENERABLE BEDE(672/673-735)

To Bede a pagan Anglo-Saxon

was better than a Christian Celt,

and his fellow Germanic people

have never seen any problem

with that. Religion can carry

you only so far, then tribal

feeling takes over, and makes

a monk praise a pagan king

for his slaughter of monks.

28.11.2023

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FIND AND EMBRACE

The meek shall not inherit

the world if

they won't find the beast

in them

to rip asunder the flesh

of its rulers.

28.11.2023

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A CRIMSON TIDE

Violence will

save the world,

or whatever

will be left of it

after all the veins

of the unjust

have run

empty.

28.11.2023

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THE RICH AND THE POWERFUL

Just kill them all

and let their god

sort them out.

28.11.2023

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SAIGYÕ(1118-1190)

Just one more disenchanted

aristocrat playing religious

while writing dainty poems;

clearly not enough swords

forged to run through all

of his troublesome kind.

28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTY-SECOND DAY OF THE YEAR

Let this unjust world

be burned to ashes

and salt be cast

upon its dead soil.

28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR

 The drunk runs towards the bus

stop hunched, like a chimpanzee,

crying "Political police! Whore!

Political police! Political police!"

And then, he flinches as people

move forth. He expected them

to be intimidated, intimidated by

a short man with beer cans. Like

they wouldn't have seen the likes

of him before, so many times,

these lost, misbegotten beings

that society casts on its streets.

27.-28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTIETH DAY OF THE YEAR

He cries of happiness

while sledding, and I

would like you to

be here, witnessing

his joy, but the path

to his existence

goes through your

deaths. There is

no possible world

where you three

could exist together.

Your deaths are

the soil from which

his life sprang.

26.-28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Take a photo of the cat,

I ask. And I get several,

proofs of life, it eating

there, on the kitchen

floor, just a meter away

from where you died.

I think of that night now

only occasionally when

I am there, as time buries

our losses in the deep

sediment of our lives.

25.-28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF THE YEAR

I ask and the cat

gets his feeder,

and I get a weekend

that shows what

could've been.

24.-28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND TWENTIETH DAY OF THE YEAR

J leaves to school at 09.31 am,

and I'm thinking of all those

days after your death that

brought, through my absence,

this aching separation.

23.-28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND NINETEENTH DAY OF THE YEAR 1

Harsh words that hurt,

briefly, until knowledge

prevails over emotion:

These words carved

by own actions into

a beloved mind.

22.-28.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND EIGHTEENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

A nice walk,

just the two of us

when once there were four,

and now we are old,

our walks short

as the time left for us,

Neffi.

21.11.2023

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PREFERENCES

On Instagram, I get messages

asking if I want to lick the sender's

pussy. No, I would rather have

three ongoing genocides ended,

one in Darfur, one in Palestine

one in Xinjiang / East Turkestan

- and M23 stopped and defeated

in the Democratic Republic of

Congo. I have my preferences.

20.11.2023

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ISRAEL HAS KILLED 104 UN WORKERS IN ISRAELI OCCUPIED PALESTINE'S BESIEGED GAZA STRIP

The 'West' celebrates Israel's

killing of 104 United Nations workers

in occupied Palestine's besieged Gaza

as just another act of 'self-defence',

declares that the victims were

'members of Hamas' and

that criticism is 'antisemitism',

and that more UN staff must die.

20.11.2023

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THE 'WESTERN' PRESS

Israel has killed 60

Palestinian journalists

in the besieged Gaza Strip,

one Lebanese one

in southern Lebanon

in the last 44 days,

arrested 30 Palestinian

journalists in the occupied

East Jerusalem & West Bank,

and the 'Western' press

doesn't give a shit,

just regurgitates Israeli

regime propaganda.

20.11.2023

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SILLY ASTRONOMICAL COMPARISON

I am the void

in my own being,

a black hole eating

the collapsing star.

20.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND SEVENTEETH DAY OF THE YEAR

Eight hours wasted

in a fading nightmare,

awakening to cough

before slipping in again,

and how many people

met a real nightmare

in these Babylonian

moments? Hundreds

dead and wounded,

and thousands now

face new day with

the burning loss

of loved ones.

20.11.2023

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WHAT DID THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS BRING?

What did the Abraham Accords bring?

Whitewashed RSF / Janjaweed

unleashing a second Darfur genocide,

burying prisoners alive in Ardamata.

19.11.2023

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SAYS THE 'WEST'

If you kill 15 000 people in 42 days

that's not a genocide, says the 'West',

but if you say "From the River to the Sea"

that's a call for a genocide, says the 'West',

and if you utter the word 'Decolonization'

that's a call for a genocide, says the 'West',

as it playfully ruffles Apartheid Israel's hair.

19.11.2023

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THE 'WEST' HAS GIVEN ITS BLESSING, SO THESE DEATHS DON'T MATTER

Two schools housing displaced

people bombed in besieged Gaza

by Israel's occupation forces.

130 killed, at least, but up to 300.

We might never know, as Israel

closed the hospitals that counted

the dead. It doesn't matter,

the 'West' has given its blessing -

so these deaths don't matter.

19.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND SIXTEENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Remember: Lives of 40 imaginary babies

"beheaded" and "baked in ovens" matter

more than the lives of 6400 real children

murdered by Israel's occupation forces.

Imaginary suffering "justifies" real suffering.

19.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Awakening, alone, in the loneliness

of one's own making, and outside

the winter night warm compared

to the wasteland frozen inside

the mind in its throne of flesh

and bone, emanating cold.

18.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

You write a poem about angels,

colossal and comforting, when

you see before you only dead

pigeons, with broken wings.

Death took them, and now

they look like they never lived,

the colossal and comforting

angels in your poem.

17.11.2023

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INTO YOUR LONG EXILE

Gather thy fallen

apples, thy frozen

mouldering apples,

the apples which life

gives to you from

its Eden. At least

you have something

to carry on your way

out of the paradise

into your long exile.

16.11.2023

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IN WINTER'S ENDLESS DARK

Better to live

in the long winter

night's utter black

than in the pale

light of the short

winter day,

in the pale light of a day

like a sick youth dying,

gray and calm and quiet,

in some novel we

once read and forgot

except that one image.

16.11.2023

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AFTER 40 DAYS

15 000 people slaughtered

by Apartheid Israel's regime

in Israeli occupied Palestine's

besieged Gaza Strip.

15 000 people slaughtered

and the 'West' keeps chanting

its adoring and unconditional

support for the ongoing genocide.

16.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

6220 children murdered in Gaza

by Israel's occupation forces

in 40 days and Genocide Joe

talks again about imaginary

decapitated Israeli babies,

and the press repeats his lies

(given up by even the Israeli regime),

uncritically, because propaganda

demands that journalism dies

like the half-a-hundred

Palestinian journalists

Israeli occupation has killed.

16.11.2023

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AN AGNOSTIC ZIONIST

Laughs at Palestinian casualties,

claims they are not newsworthy

unlike Israeli ones, dismisses

the rape of an imprisoned child

by Israeli occupation interrogator,

then declares "went mad for days"

after seeing wounded Israel's

occupation forces' soldier

handled roughly.

16.11.2023

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AN ANSWER, BUT NOT THE ANSWER

The secret is not to endure,

the secret is to avoid, to cut off

and separate, to put it outside

your mind, and let your mind

flood with the pain of others

so that you will feel as little

of your own as possible.

15.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND TWELFTH DAY OF THE YEAR

After supporting mass murder

for 38 days, the 'West' now

starts to say that perhaps

even the lives of Palestinians

have value, and perhaps,

just perhaps, Apartheid Israel

shouldn't be killing over

a thousand children per week.

15.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND ELEVENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Even now, against all reason,

part of the mind living in this flesh

thinks the flesh will be immortal

and that the mind will soar

beyond the few decades left.

Even now, against all reason.

14.-15.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND TENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Humanity is like a child

who wants to play a dangerous

game again, and when told

it will end in tears, as before,

stubbornly declares that it will

be different this time.

And it won't.

13.-15.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND NINTH DAY OF THE YEAR

Palestine's East Jerusalem, Gaza and West Bank

are all occupied by Israel under international law,

which doesn't care about your pro-Genocide stance.

12.-15.11.2023

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THE 'WEST' DEFINES GENOCIDE

Israel has killed ten times more children

in one month than Russia in eighteen,

but according to the 'West', there is

an ongoing genocide in Ukraine,

but Israel is "just defending itself"

in occupied Palestine.

11.11.2023

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5700 DEAD CHILDREN

5700 dead children and 'the West'

says 'No' to a ceasefire in Gaza,

because nothing, literally nothing,

is more important to it than Apartheid

Israel becoming Greater Israel.

11.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND EIGHT DAY OF THE YEAR

105 years since the end of the Great War,

105 years since guns fell silent and people

had wild sex with strangers from sheer joy

of having survived the end of their world,

and now murderous politicians and journalists

are upset that people want to march calling

for a ceasefire to end an ongoing genocide.

What would you think of this,

Graves, Gurney, Owen, Rosenberg,

Sassoon and Sorley?

(I know what you would think,

in your bucolic grave, Brooke,

but if you would have lived

until meeting a bullet

in Gallipoli...)

11.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND SEVENTH DAY OF THE YEAR

The 'Western' countries claim

they can't call for a ceasefire

that would end the genocide

in Israeli occupied Palestine,

pushing their own Jewish citizens

before Israel's guns, claiming Jews

feel afraid and intimidated hearing

that the slaughter should end.

Yet it's Jewish groups at forefront

in peace marches and demonstrations,

while Christian politicians use Jews

as human shields for a genocide.

10.-11.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND SIXTH DAY OF THE YEAR

11 000 people killed by Israeli occupation

& over 2000 are missing in Gaza

(Israel claims it has killed 20 000);

over 5000 dead and missing children.

This what "self-defense" looks like!

09.-11.11.2023

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HUNDREDS HAVE BEEN MURDERED WHILE I SLEPT

When I have my coffee, evaporating

what remain of sleep's fathomless hours,

and have done these few translations

with sure awakened eyes and mind

that is itself, and go over to witness

what the politicians refuse to see,

the ongoing genocides, how many more

dead in fallen Ardamta, on the gates

of El Geneina, how many dead

in besieged Gaza Strip, in occupied

East Jerusalem, West Bank and

Lebanon? Hundreds, and politicians

ban marches, organizations and

sentences that cry out for liberation.

Our ulers only fit for solitary

confinement, for life, in some

prison lacking windows.

08.11.2023

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ALIENS

Having lost our old gods,

we yearn new ones from

the stars, with new answers

for old problems, and with

the old hope that someone

older and wiser would stand

beside and guide us, telling

us what to do, like parents.

But there are only us, now,

and we need to be the ones

who have to offer guidance

and come up with hope,

with the saving ideas.

08.11.2023

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THE WORDS THAT 'JUSTIFY' A GENOCIDE

Thousands of broken bodies

of children and women carried

out from the ruins in Gaza,

and the 'West' just keeps

repeating, over and over again,

its comforting holy mantra

"Israel has a right to

defend itself".

08.11.2023

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DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE THORNS, SMELL THE ROSES

Don't be afraid, for

life can be tender,

it's our fear that

that we fear the most,

and if life might ignore

us on many a gray day,

it rarely stings, or

denies a path away

from pain to

days when its tender.

08.11.2023

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YOU ARE THE COSMOS

Facing the cosmos,

we are its eyes

watching itself,

we are the mind

of the cosmos  trying

to comprehend itself.

We are the cosmos,

one of the forms

it takes, briefly.

08.11.2023

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ON THE THREE HUNDREDTH AND FIFTH DAY OF THE YEAR

One final poet to turn to,

before going to spread

the images and voices

of genocide, one more

poet who lives the death

from which I have closed

myself these hours, cowardly.

Then it will be images of

broken humanity, and

people who speak with

forked-tongues, blessing

massacres while pretending

to care of the children

they sentence to death.

08.11.2023

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