IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL VISION, BUT NOW

Walt Whitman's United States is as dead

as was his president on the bier; a nation

has died standing, like a beheaded martyr

it seeks a place where to lie down forever.

06.11.2024

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FOR THIS BLOODY DAY

Drunk from Trump's victory, Israel slaughters

Palestinian people in northern Gaza with glee,

bombards Lebanon, declares the coming

destruction of Iran, all just this morning.

The Democrats in the United States

spend tens of billions of dollars, sacrificed

hundreds of thousands of lives, trampled

on international law, threw away the future

of their nation - for this bloody day.

06.11.2024

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THOSE WHO HAVE BLINDED THEMSELVES MORALLY

Those who support Israel's regime support it solely

because it claims to be Jewish. They would have no

interest towards it otherwise. 

Because to them all is seen through ethnicity and religion,

they think that people also oppose Israel's actions only

because it claims to be Jewish. 

Not because actions are war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Having blinded themselves morally, supporters of Israel's regime

can't understand people who act from moral conviction.

They see only labels that justify all or deny the right to live

where opponents of Israel's regime see human beings

committing war crimes or being victims of them.

31.10.-03.11.2024

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THOSE WHO DON'T OPPOSE THE ONGOING GENOCIDE BY ISRAEL IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE

People who dismiss the demand to oppose a genocide

as a "purity test", who claim that something greater

is at stake than the mere fate of millions, those

people have lost what makes us humane beings

instead of merely humans. We need to be humane,

or soon we will be nothing but beasts.

03.11.2024

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ISRAELI REGIME SAYS IT KILLED 254 PEOPLE BECAUSE OCCUPATION SOLDIERS SAW ONE PERSON ON THE ROOF OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING

254 people were killed in Israel's occupation forces'

bombing of the house of the Abu Nasr family in

Gaza's Beit Lahia a week ago. 117 bodies recovered,

137 people still lost under the rubble, and the 'West'

considers the massacre of no great importance.

Certainly not of importance enough to take

any action, only to give the most mildest rebuke

to Israel's regime, and to urge it to behave

a bit better in the future, if that's not too much

to ask, and if it's, then no worries, do it again.

03.11.2024

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AN INTERNAL BONFIRE

Sometimes all you need for warmth is not a fire burning

in the stove, but merely gazing at a photograph that hides

more than it shows, yet with its promise gifts to imagination

the power to reveal what is hidden, and sets ablaze a roaring,

consuming fire that keeps you warm long after relief.

03.11.2024

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A WINTRY LANDSCAPE, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL

An abundance of white

fills the landscape, the white

of the falling snow unites

the white land

with the white clouds,

and that enclosing white

comes and enters, and

it's white inside you,

the vast white space

merging with you - and

through you, it reaches

outwards, long after

the snow has melted

and the Sun shines on

the dead grass, that cold

whiteness lives in words.

03.11.2024

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YET IT'S THE SAME, WHATEVER FORM AND COLOUR IT TAKES

The gravel road had a wide pool

of brown meltwater, the pure

fallen snow, like a human soul,

encountering the world below.

Yet, birds drank from it, and

frozen over, covered thinly

with freshly fallen snow,

it looks like purity itself.

03.11.2024

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MELTING THE SNOW UPON THE SOUL

That one image evokes

all the images before,

and what they evoked

in the mind and flesh,

and the mind and flesh

respond, that one image

warms them, melting

the snow upon the soul.

03.11.2024

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NOT QUENCHED

He would like her to know

that the photo she send

had the same effect

as those previous ones,

even when the words

are few, dampened

by these bitter days'

less fair offerings,

but not quenched.

31.10.-03.11.2024

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THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON ME

It might be the autumn old as myself on the edge

of winter's gray touch, or it might be that crimson

not of dawn or dusk after, before dark, but of life.

from children sprayed on rubble of bombed homes

and dreams. Chilled becomes dumb to much but

the lives torn not withered but budding from

the arms that carried them and hang limp

themselves crushed between collapsed floors.

It could be autumn, light tired as myself, or

it could be mass death celebrated by those

who rotted from the inside but stand while

felling entire cities and nations.

20.10.-01.11.2024

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TO THE INNOCENT DEAD IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON

Death on such a massive scale doesn't just extinguish

lives, crush bodies between collapsed floors, bury

them under rubble that was a shared existence.

No, something more dies, is dead, is being dug

up lifeless with desperate bare hands, carried

limp to be placed atop other cadavers on

horse-drawn wagons. It's our humanity itself

there, among the other mangled corpses,

laying not in peace, but in agony beyond

heartbeats, agony carved with shrapnel

into humankind itself.

01.11.2024

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THE MAIN STREET OF THE VILLAGE

Cold and clear day, pale sunlight

and an empty street you could walk

from one end to another and back

without seeing a single person, not

even one long dead, lost in time,

but perhaps on the way back

you would walk past yourself

on your way to the end.

31.10.2024

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THE BOOMERANG WILL RETURN

When you 'normalize' genocidal violence against

one group of people abroad, you 'normalize'

it everywhere. Including back at home.

The boomerang you threw will return.

31.10.2024

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SO MANY

Looking for poems about Oak Park found some,

but foremost poet after poet that had passed

through those streets, gazed at leaves being

blown through them from a window before

turning off the light, and again in the morning,

glass separating their peering face from dawn

light, drops of rain, snowflakes that would feed

their thoughts that the day. Oak Park a set

of clothes their life wore, until like Charles

Simic's it took on some other garment,

watched leaves and rain and snowflakes

fall on different streets writing different

poems into their fluid minds.

29.10.2024

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I DON'T WANT TO HEAR WHY THE MURDERER IS KILLING, I WANT HIM STOPPED

When people upset about Israel's crimes wrote

about the suffering of occupied Palestinians as reply

to Auschwitz Museum's post showing faces

 of the murdered, asking the Museum to comment,

to take a stand, to condemn,  I often replied saying,

it was not the place to ask, or the Museum's

to condemn.  Pleading to people to keep

the Holocaust and Israel's crimes separate

And now, when Israel is committing a genocide

in Palestine and massacring Lebanon, when people

talking about the slaughter bring up the Holocaust

up, historical trauma, against which I didn't spoke

before, because I thought it did play a role, I will

reply, "Please, not now. This is not the time

or place to bring up the long dead to excuse

the murder of being killed now. Have even

a little decency, and be silent."

24.10.2024

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DON'T LET THE BOMBS KILL THE HUMAN IN YOU ALSO

I don't understand how can you become dumb

to images and screams of death and suffering,

of broken bodies dead and alive, no matter

how often you see them. 

There are people who claim that they become.

That supposedly at some point a child whose

intestines are pouring out of their belly

doesn't shock them anymore.

I think they just haven't seen enough, forced

to look long enough, to listen long enough

the cries of the mangled and the dying,

to recognize that death on a mass scale

is still individuals dying, each individual

suffering as much as their loved kin

on their deathbed, and often more.

If you won't lose your ability to feel

for the latter, how could you lose it

when faced by the former? Look long

at the faces of the murdered, look long

at the faces of the wounded -

look and see the faces of your loved

ones. your kin, feel their pain. Allow

your humanity to awaken, and feel

pain, sorror, anger and grief - and act.

22.10.2024

IN THIS UNIVERSE, LIVES DON'T NECESSARILY CULMINATE IN A MEANINGFUL END THAT MAKES SENSE

There's a conspiracy theory that Albert Camus was

assassinated by the Soviet Union, that the car crash

that killed him was carefully orchestrated. An attempt

to build a narrative of martyrdom to culminate his life,

to give meaning and sense to what was an accident

resulting from coincidences, weather and reckless

driving without those building into anything

more than his and Gallimard's death, sorrow

that would blight the lives of loved ones.

If only there would have been a secret,

guiding hand, an ill plan that would have

stolen his life, then there would be meaning,

value, in his end. He would lay on stage

fallen a tragic hero, and it would all make

sense, as if there wasn't enough in his life

and work before without a meaningful end.

But real life isn't a tragedy by Racine.

22.10.2024

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THE 'WEST' AND GENOCIDE

"Never Again" has been turned in the 'West' to

"Never Again Will We Oppose a Genocide!"

22.10.2024

THE MORALITY OF THE ONE WALKING TO DEFEAT WAVING THE FLAG OF ISRAEL

You can't get Kamala Harris to condemn the rape

of Palestinian political prisoners by Israel's

occupation forces even when there's footage

of it in Israeli media.

22.10.2024

MAHASEN AL-KHATIB

Mahasen al-Khatib, a Palestinian visual artist aged 31,

had been sheltering under fire in her home for weeks

as Israel attacked her neighbourhood, when she made

an image of 19-year-old Shaaban al-Dalou burning

alive in an Israeli attack and posted it online.

A day later Israel bombed her family home

and killed her and her entire family.

22.10.2024

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WHY THE 'WEST' IS DOOMED TO FALL TO FASCISM

"Moderate" politicians can't understand

why them adopting Far-Right policies

and talking points, and demonizing

the progressives and the vulnerable

only leads to Far-Right victories.

22.10.2024

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KAMALA HARRIS ON HER WAY TO DEFEAT

Kamala Harris is walking to an electoral defeat

over the bodies of Palestinians and Lebanese

she helps Israel to kill, and the Democrats

are blaming of her coming defeat the people

who say she shouldn't have helped to kill

tens of thousands of women and children.

22.10.2024

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I REMEMBER WHEN HE HELPED TO CATCH KLAUS BARBIE, AND THIS YEAR...

When a former hunter of Nazi war criminals tells

the French people to vote for a party founded by

members of the Waffen-SS because that party

supports the genocide of Palestinians and will

"protect the Jews of France" from the Left which

opposes the ongoing genocide, you know that

Zionism is a lost cause, morally and politically.

22.10.2024

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ALL THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE

All those brave people courageously opposing

genocides that took place before their birth

silent about the genocides taking place

now - or shouting that those who oppose

them are racists that must be silenced, while

yet others celebrate, intoxicated by the suffering

they claimed they were sure to oppose if

they would have the chance.

21.10.2024

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A FLOOD OF MEMORIES

Thoughts flooded by memories, fragments of the past

broken on the floor of your mind, shattered vessels

that held shared moments, not enough pieces

to restore a single day, but enough to warm

you in this autumn night.

20.10.2024

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I CAN'T STAND SEEING MURDEROUS BASTARDS RAISED ON A PEDESTAL AND WORSHIPPED WHILE EVERYONE CAN SEE THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

Why do you write so much about Israel's genocide

and Apartheid against Palestinians, and so little

about this conflict and that conflict and that

oppressive or regime or the other ones?

Because the murderous bastards in those

conflicts and ruling those regimes are not

praised by the high and mighty of the world,

are not praised by hundreds of millions

of supposedly normal and ordinary people

caught in a hateful bloodlust, are not

catered for by the media and the press,

are not adored for their atrocities.

End the genocide, occupation and Apartheid

and you will see me writing more against

those murderous bastards our 'Western'

world doesn't worship and adore.

20.10.2024

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LEMONS, SLOW INTERNET CONNECTION AND BOMBS

When the world gives you slow internet, translate Swinburne.

The verses don't protect against scurvy, don't drive away thirst,

but they keep you busy, make you forget for a moment that

bombs are crashing through roofs, falling through floors,

exploding killing entire frightened families, while the fate

of a genocidaire's villa is the top news for the press.

20.10.2024

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BAERBOCK AND BIDEN

Baerbock and Biden tell us they have seen atrocities

against Israelis which according to Israel never happened,

yet they are incapable of seeing the atrocities which

Israel inflicts on the Palestinians and the Lebanese

each day. They have a shared superpower, being

able to witness the imaginary and unable to see

to the broken bodies of little children whose

blood covers them both, who bones

crunch under their feet.

19.-20.10.2024

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THE STARS WILL NEVER TURN THEIR GAZE AWAY FROM HUMAN GRIEF

Too tired to walk in the golden light of the day

after a night spent raging against unfolding

massacres, I will now have to walk unlighted

lanes in darkness to keep this heart beating

longer in this world of unnecessary sorrow.

19.10.2024

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"THE HONEST BROKER"

According to the United States, while

the world allowed it to lead ceasefire

talks in occupied Palestine's Gaza,

it was in fact working together with

Israel to kill the leaders of Hamas,

instead of trying to achieve a ceasefire.

United States compliments itself

for this, and is very proud of what

it has done, tens of thousands killed.

and now, it says, is the true time

for a ceasefire, just trust us -

have we ever lied?

18.10.2024

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WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE GERMANS, AGAIN

German politicians think that to atone

for their fathers and grandfathers' crimes

they must help Israel to commit a genocide,

that each time Israel kills a child

in Lebanon or Palestine,

a Jewish child killed

by the German politicians' forefathers

rises from the dead, Jewish blood

washed away with Arab blood.

17.10.2024

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WHAT THE ISRAELI REGIME WOULD LIKE YOU TO BELIEVE

According to Israeli regime's occupation forces,

which posts images of Israel's occupation soldiers

as concentration camp prisoners, concentration

camp prisoners as Israel's occupation soldiers,

concentration camp survivors are keeping up Apartheid,

committing genocide, shooting 59-year-old women

in the back in their olive grove like today, according

to Israel concentration camp survivors are posting

Tik-Tok videos where they blow up universities

and entire neighbourhoods, and drive the tricycles

of slain and missing children, laughing maniacally.

According to Israel, concentration camp survivors

have done this, are doing all this just now.

No, Israel's occupation forces soldiers are

doing all that. No concentration camp prisoner

carries Israeli uniform while burning civilians alive,

it's the product of an Apartheid who does it.

They are committing war crimes and crimes

against humanity, and Israel is using concentration

camp prisoners, concentration camp survivors,

as human shields for Israel's atrocities.

17.10.2024

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THE PERSON WHO JUSTIFIES GENOCIDES WITH GENOCIDES

If you won't oppose a genocide,

what will you oppose?

Oh? You oppose opposing

a genocide. Why?

You say that a past genocide

justifies this genocide? Really?

Will you end up claiming this genocide

justifies some future genocide too?

17.10.2024

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THE TEST OF TIME

As much as we rejoice of the finding

of a hundred lines from Euripides,

not a single word we read or write

will survive the test of time;

two thousand and four hundred

years are a fleeting moment

for the Earth and the Cosmos,

and as we will be ash and dust,

so will be all the works of Euripides,

so will be all the works of humanity.

Read them while they exist,

read them while we exist.

17.10.2024

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ANYONE COULD KILL 22 000 CHILDREN IN A SINGLE YEAR WITHOUT REALLY MEANING TO DO SO, CLAIMS A BRITISH AUTHOR

According to Briton Howard Jacobson, Israel's regime

doesn't intend to kill children, it just somehow

ends up killing 22 000 children, and as it isn't

intentional, could happen to anyone really,

it doesn't matter - according to author Jacobson,

who also says that if it matters to you, then you

are guilty of 'a blood libel' and that you are

spreading 'an ancient hatred',

and that you really should just let the Israeli

regime keep committing those utterly intentional...

sorry, utterly unintentional, accidental killings

of tens of thousands of children.

16.10.2024

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NO AMOUNT OF ATTACKS OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE CAN MAKE THIS WORK AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY

Democracy in the 'West' has failed

because 'moderate' politicians refuse to follow

the will of the voters, refuse to enact

popular progressive policies,

and instead proudly declare they

are making "tough choices" by cutting

education, healthcare, welfare and the taxes

of billionaires and mega-corporations.

 

15.10.2024

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BAERBOCK AND SCHOLZ

Germany claims that Israel

"has a right to kill civilians"

at schools and hospitals,

as long as it remembers

to claim they were used

as "human shields".

I'm sure that Germany believes

that the 800 000 illegal

Israeli colonists

in occupied East Jerusalem

and rest of the West Bank,

actually used as human shields

by Israel's occupation forces

every single day since 1968,

and of whom 300 000 carry

weapons and take part in daily

attacks against occupied Palestinians,

can then be targeted also?

Of course not! An illegal Israeli

colonialist, reserve member

of occupation forces,

living in an illegal colony

with a military garrison,

must be utterly safe

according to Germany.

Only brown people

can be slaughtered,

only their deaths

can be "justified",

says Germany.

15.10.2024

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NO SAFE SPACES FOR SUPPORTERS OF ATROCITIES

We don't need safe spaces for Zionists, we

need safe space from supporters of Apartheid,

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansings.

No one has a right to support Apartheid,

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

and to feel safe from criticism.

15.10.2024

LOOK AT THE MIRROR

If you want to silence people who oppose a genocide

now, stop going around asking why another genocide

was allowed to begin 85 years ago.

You know why it was allowed to begin - because people

like you acted to silence opposition to the genocide,

to hide that it was taking place. 

15.10.2024

AMONG THE RUINS

A fifty minute walk into the dusk,

from birdsong into silence among

the tree sumps of a felled forest,

through which I once ski'd, so many

years ago, and now ruins of a wood

and the ruins of a day, ashes

dying in the darkness.

12.-15.10.2024

SERVING THE GENOCIDAIRES

After each new massacre by the Israeli regime, Britain's

Labour and Conservative-run British Broadcasting Corporation

tells its audience that everything is all right and there

is no reason to be upset, because:

"The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reports."

14.-15.10.2024

WE MUST END CHRISTIAN ZIONISM

Great majority of people in 'Western' countries don't support

Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity,

mutta politicians and the press support,

and that's only things that matter.

We don't have democracy.

We have Christian Zionism.

14.10.2024

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WHEN KILLERS INVESTIGATE THEMSELVES, WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM KILLING PEOPLE

Apartheid Israel burns occupied Palestinian civilians alive.

But don't worry, because according to the United States

and Germany, Israel will investigate itself.

When killers investigate themselves,

we don't have to worry about them

killing people. All is well.

14.10.2024

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EUROPEAN UNION COMMISSION WANTS EVERYONE TO KNOW IT'S RACIST

European Union Commission evacuates Ukrainians

to be treated in European Union hospitals

while 80 % of Ukraine is free from occupation

and most hospitals operate as normal,

but European Union Commission refuses

to evacuate any of the over 10 000 seriously

wounded Palestinians left without treatment

in occupied Palestine's Gaza, where

Israel has attacked all 38 hospitals, leaving

21 of them unable to operate, and just 17

partially functional, able to offer only

the most basic care.

According to the European Union Commission

it "Stands in solidarity with Israel"

and has thrown some coins on the ground

for Palestinians to gather, so all is well.

14.10.2024

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HALF OF OCCUPIED PALESTINE'S POPULATION ARE CHILDREN, YET...

According to the 'Western' press,

the only children in occupied Palestine

are adult Israeli occupation soldiers.

14.10.2024

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"THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES SAID IT WAS LOOKING INTO THE REPORTS"

After each new massacre by Israel, Britain's Labour and Conservative-run

British Broadcasting Corporation tells its audience that everything

is all right and there is no reason to be upset, because:

"The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was looking into the reports."

Today the magic words that justify and erase atrocities

and make the next massacre possible

were used by BBC to nullify the murder of 15 children and 7 adults,

and wounding of 80 others in a United Nations -run school sheltering

Palestinian families, driven from their homes by Israel, in Gaza.

14.10.2024