THE BLOCKADE

I need to brew more coffee,

go and sit out in the Sun,

read a bit drinking it

before succumbing to

the need to inform the world

it's bleeding

and dying, denied

saving healthcare

because the border

is blockaded, border

on whose other side

a better future is waiting.

07.05.2026

TRYING TO FIND A PHOTOGRAPH OF POET WILLIAM STAFFORD IN HIS YOUNGER DAYS

The search engines breaking down

in this copper age of the web

think that photographs of William Stafford,

William Styron and Kim Philby

all show the same man -

And who has ever seen them

in the same room?,

a postmodernist amoured

with fabulation machines

and the breaking down

of shared reality

by Fascist billionaires

might quip,

but then,

they would, wouldn't they,

loving the maw of the beast

as it breaks our intellectual bones?

07.05.2026

THE MODERN WESTERN PHILOSEMITES WHO DREAMED OF THEIR ACTS OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE NAZIS IN DEFENSE OF THE JEWS

They wondered aloud

for decades

what they would have done

if alive

during the Holocaust,

imagining acts

of stoic bravery.

In the last three years

they have answered:

They would have been afraid

of those who stood

against the Holocaust

and opposed them vocally,

demanding they be silenced

and sent to the camps

themselves.

07.05.2026

IF THE WORLD ENDS

If the world ends -

but it has ended

already,

so many times.

07.05.2026

THRASYBULUS' WISDOM

Thrasybulus knew what to do

with all the prominent men tall

standing on their fortunes.

Take a sicle and go

through the field

of humanity cutting.

07.05.2026

ALL THERE IS

Past is past, 

and here is now

all there is.

I sat outside in the morning

Sun drinking foul coffee,

reading James Blish,

a woodpecker

was at work

in the distance

as I went through

infodumps of a future

never to be.

I had a memory

reading Blish

decades and decades ago

when the universe

was a rapture

waiting to unfold.

Past is past,

and here is now

all there is.

I got up, crossed from sunlight

into the cool shadows

inside,

started to translate

a poem by William Stafford

about the universe being one,

and my mind took the line

and went wandering

into this poem.

The universe is one,

in the single moment

there ever is.

Past is past,

and here is now

all there is.

07.05.2026

THE FIFTH OF MAY

No bright sunlight heralding

      the May dawn,

dark night pales to bleak morning,

and incessant rain beats

       the still bare branches,

the stump of the centenarian tree

       they felled last week.

05.05.2026

MESSAGE TO ZIONISTS

People who are traumatized

by genocides

don't support genocides.

They oppose genocides.

04.05.2026

MARK PAUL COHEN

Mark Paul Cohen spends his time

on social media platforms

insulting genocide survivors

who are asking for aid.

"Asks Hamas", declares Mark Paul Cohen

to a survivor in a leaking tent,

while announcing his 'mission' in life

is "Explaining Israel and US to each other."

04.05.2026

A MODERN TYPE OF 'WESTERN' JOURNALIST AND PUNDIT

Same people 

claim they "live in fear"

when they hear

"Free Palestine!" -

but go 

and defend those

who declare

"Heil Hitler!"

And this, 

we are

told, is just

as it should be.

04.05.2026

THE FANATICS

Ending USAID will kill in a decade

more than Stalin did in a three,

and the war against Iran will starve

millions more, but these, even

to the Liberal critics, are merely

individual failures, not condemnation

of the ideology and economical model

in whose name and through whose

machinery the mass death is dealt.

For the Liberal and the Conservative

will sacrifice tens of millions of lives

before they will sacrifice Capitalism

on whose altar they were ready quickly

to end humanity in a nuclear fire.

04.05.2026

'WESTERN' DEMOCRATS

They pretended to be aghast

of Communism's death toll,

claimed it to be too high a price

for equality, education and healthcare,

and now dismiss Capitalism's

higher death toll as of no consequence,

for the goal, they say, justifies the end:

Denial of equality, education and healthcare.

04.05.2026

SEARCHING FOR CHIMEIRA

If you do this search on Ecosia:

"'CHIMEIRA" "PAINTING" ARTIST 19TH CENTURY MUSEUM -VASE

The leading search result is:

HIRE ENZI / DJ IN LONDON - ENCORE MUSICIANS

Followed by:

Full text of "Boston Phoenix 1985-09-10: Vol 14 lss 37"

And then this:

CYCLOTRON'S RATINGS / SPUTNIKMUSIC

02.-03.05.2026

THE GALLI

Cybele's priests gave

to the goddess

more than any male

ever to a female,

not two minutes

to hold but forever.

03.05.2026

SILENCE AT SIX A.M.

At this time in the morning

yesterday, the birds were singing,

a cacophony of sound,

but today, silence

at six in the pale dawn

and just as I have

written that,

they start singing,

haphazardly,

and then fall silent.

03.05.2026

AT SUNRISE

Last moments before 

sunrise 

all birdsong

and then, 

                 in the first

light, 

a woodpecker

joins,

hammering.

02.05.2026

ON THE FIRST OF MAY

Silver birdsong

under cloudless sky

of May, yet

in the breeze

I somehow feel

all the years gone.

01.05.2026

THE TRUTH

Politicians and journalists and pundits claiming

that Jewish fears are more important

than Palestinian and and Lebanese lives

and that criticism of Israel

must be banned to keep Jews safe

doesn't keep Jews safe

and are not intended to,

the claims are made solely

to support Israel as it takes

more Palestinian and Lebanese lives. 

01.05.2026

THE FIRST OF MAY

The first of May, 

late hours of the night,

the birds are singing

the black night 

into darkest blue.

01.05.2026

THE NORMAL KIND OF SAFETY

I believe that when people being bombed daily

are safe then people walking on their own streets

without fear of being bombed will be safe.

Not safe as utterly safe, never facing accidents

or violence by friends or strangers. But the kind

of safety of which people being bombed daily

dream of: The normal kind of safety where

there will be altercations and traffic accidents

and the occasional lunatic, but no bombs,

and on those other streets no extremists whose

own justification is an echo of the justification

of those who bomb people daily.

01.05.2026

THE ONLY THING THESE DAYS

The only thing one

needs these days

to support Israel

is to be utterly

without conscience.

30.04.2026

THE DIFFERENCE IN REPORTING OF THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA BY GENOCIDAL APARTHEID ISRAEL

The Spanish-language mainstream media

is giving a lot of attention to Israel's piracy,

the attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla

off Greece's Peleponnesos, the hijacking

of dozens of ships, hundreds of people,

while the English-language mainstream

media in the Anglo-Saxon countries

is giving it little attention, downplaying

it as much as possible as a minor thing

that just happened, an act of God

no one should be outraged about

just like no one should be outraged

about the genocide in Gaza.

30.04.2026

IT WON'T HELP BRITISH JEWS, BUT THEN THAT'S NOT THE INTENTION

"Open your eyes for Jewish pain,'

declares Starmer, who just closed

office that tracked possible Israeli

human rights violations in Palestine.

Two people being injured in London

is a reason to ban demonstrations

against Israel's crimes, says Jonathan Hall,

'independent' government adviser

on terrorism, whose father-in-law

Lord Dyson is a 'patron' of the extremist

pressure group UK Lawyers for Israel

that got drawings of Palestinian children

removed from a London hospital

because it claimed they hurt the feelings

of Jews. Israel kills in Palestine

and Lebanon but it's British Jews

who are the true victims,

not the 120 000 murdered Palestinians

and the 7000 murdered Lebanese,

and the only way to keep

British Jews safe, so the politicians tell,

is to help Israel to kill more people

and silence all the voices that speak against it

and stop the feet that march against it.

30.04.2026

THIS WON'T HELP BRITISH JEWS, BUT IT WILL HELP ISRAEL - IN THE SHORT TERM

Burning an ambulance in London

and injuring two adults in London

is worse than murdering 130 000

people, including 30 000 children

in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran

so the journalists, politicians

and pundits in Britain say,

and thus the latter violence must be accepted

and those speaking against it silenced

and those marching against it stopped

and thus all the ambulances and the Jews

of London will be safe, or so journalists,

politicians and pundits in Britain say.

30.04.2026

ACCORDING TO THE POLITICIANS IN THE 'WEST'

According to politicians in the 'West'

the future belongs to Fascist billionaires,

it belongs to whitewashed Nazis

and genocidal Zionists,

according to the politicians

it belongs to Apartheid, artificial 'intelligence',

genocide and global warming denial,

it belongs to coal and oil,

and it belongs to them,

as a reward for making the future

a hell for the rest of us.

30.04.2026

DURING ONGOING GENOCIDES

During ongoing 

genocides,

cursed be

the bystanders.

30.04.2026

NOTHING

Nothing justifies

Zionism now

and 

nothing justifies

Antisemitism 

ever.

30.04.2026

THE NEWS THAT MATTER

According to The Guardian 

the stabbing of two people today

at London in a neighbourhood

with a significant Jewish population

is major news, making the online

frontpage for the international edition,

and under the headline one person

is quoted as declaring that facing

such violence they might have to leave

but of all the wars of the world

only Ukraine and Iran

are considered of equal significance,

each given one appearance 

on the frontpage, of the rest

of the dozens of wars ravaging

our planet nothing is deemed

as important (not even al-Qaeda's

offensive to take over Mali)

as the stabbing of two people

at a London borough.

29.04.2026

MERELY WORDS

Isn't this sort of happiness,

this flow of words

across the hours

of the late evening

and the spring night,

poetry? 

Yet it falls

short, for words -

even beautiful,

touching words,

are merely words.

29.04.2026

IN SUPPORT OF SCIENCE FICTIONAL SOLUTIONS TO THE ONE OF THE KEY ISSUES OF OUR DAY

I remember when 

I was taken back

reading Joanna Russ' The Female Man

in my mid-teens, 

a strike against

assumptions I realized

I hadn't known I held,

that the gendered people

didn't think as I thought all did

and that nor had I,

that my belief

that all were the same,

not even yin and yang

but primordial unity

in somewhat different

moulds but all the same

underneath the guises

of gender and age,

that this belief

was wrong

and people divided,

divergent and alien,

and now in

these bleak years

when men show their worst again, 

now I think that if and when

men are poison

and that naive

vision of people of our species

being just people unreachable,

give them,

give us,

poison

and liberate

yourself,

this species.

Science does wonders.

I'm sure it can let

one half live

without

its rotting Siamese

corpse.

28.04.2026

LEDA'S CHOICE

When the choice between man

and bear is the bear

(and justly so),

then why wonder

that the choice of Leda

would be the swan,

with a spark

of divinity in the eyes?

When one long

has felt the weight

of a crude, bestial

Spartan king,

what is the weight

of a swan aloft white

as the snows on Olympus?

29.04.2026

A PHOTOGRAPH FROM CHICAGO

A narrow alley

holding dumpsters

giving to a street,

crossing it

emerging as a street

itself, straight

path drawn by long

dead hands

towards the disappearing

green in the distance

beyond the brick

and the asphalt.

28.04.2026

UNTIL THE EMPIRES END IT WILL BE SO

Still in the costumes

of the old homelands

across the dividing ocean

the women picking

pickles on the page

of The Chicago Sunday Tribune

in 1903, picking pickles

for Lyman Budlong,

earning as little as

ten dollars per day

in current currency,

and you try to find

a poem about picking

pickles that would

connect to them,

illustrate their experience

more than the poems

for children and jokes

you keep coming up,

it's a funny subject,

apparently, limericks

just run off the tongue,

picking pickles,

not back-breaking,

monotonous work

on which an industrial

food empire

was founded. But

then, which empire

wouldn't be? You

leave the fields

of the Russian empire,

cross the ocean

and you find

yourself in the empire

of Lyman Budlong

(his private hunting

reserve just to the west

of his greenhouses

and agricultural fields,

just like an estate

of a Russian aristocrat)

and now in all

the quicksand empires

of the empire builders

of our time. Until

the empires end

it will be so.

28.04.2026

'CEASEFIRE'?

'Ceasefire'?

Where do you observe

'ceasefire'?

There will only be peace

when Israel

will give way

to a one,

democratic,

multinational state.

Strife for it,

because as long

as Israel exists

there will be

only bloodshed

and oppression.

Until then, as you can

see, there is

only fire.

24.04.-26.04.2026

SISSI(05.12.2010-24.04.2026)

You have left us

and so much

has left with you

of what remained

of those years

then bittersweet

and now longed for

with you.

24.04.2026

THE RABBIT IN THE GARDEN 3

Still, 

in the shadows

the rabbit

on the green spring grass

waiting

always waiting

something

to happen,

some expected

unexpected thing

to break

the stillness

into moments

of frantic movement.

23.04.2026

THE RABBIT IN THE GARDEN 2

What does the rabbit

wait, still

in the green shadows?

Some rapid movement

of feet or wing,

that sudden change

that breaks the world

as it is.

23.04.2026

THE RABBIT IN THE GARDEN 1

The rabbit awaits,

still, in the green shadows

some rapid movement

of feet or wing,

that sudden change

that breaks the world

as it is -

always on the edge,

in its stillness,

the rabbit

that knows

the world is always

on the edge

of breaking.

23.04.2026

CHOKE IN YOUR "SLAVA UKRAINI!", EUROPEAN UNION

Two days after refusing, 

                                        yet again,

to suspend the preferential trade agreement

with genocidal Apartheid Israel

(the one with the human rights clause)

the European Union celebrates

agreeing 20th round of sanctions

                                       against Russia

and 90 000 000 000 euros in aid

to Ukraine, while Israel

keeps murdering Lebanese

                      and Palestinians

with European Union's blessing

and funding.

European Union's Janus-faced

action towards Israel and Russia

is a giant, 

                 mocking middle-finger

to all Israel's victims

and proud embracing

of Europe's racist

                             inhumanity.

23.04.2026

DOCTOR CHARLTON CUSSANS PHD

On a social media platform

an account named

"Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD"

is part of a witch-hunt

against accounts seeking

aid to Gaza families,

claiming them to be

'scammers', joining forces

with Abandonment Isles,

andrewtheblueskier, Dark Canada,

Fennec Fox Fanfare, Fuss,

globe moment, Lollerisms, 

Machiavellian Star Restaurant,

sixapac, Talia, Yakety Yakumo,

Yuri Princess, Warren Terra,

What are we doing here

and all the rest

clearly oh so real accounts (not),

so one is slightly surprised

to find out that someone

with an attitude and name

like that exists in real life

and lectures in Coventry University

while mocking and harassing

starving people

trying to survive a genocide

and those who try to aid them.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

from Coventry University

could have just blocked

accounts asking for help

and those trying to aid them,

but that wasn't enough

for Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

looking fell-wed in his photoghraps

on Facebook and LinkedIn,

no he had to harass, mock

and insult people who just want to live

and those who just wanted to help.

22.04.2026

GRIND THEM INTO GRAINS OF SAND

I have no sympathy for the powerful

and the privileged,

those who see the world

but a stage for themselves

and us the unwilling spectators.

I want them to be bloody sand

running through the hands

of uncaring humanity

and blown away

by harsh gusts of time.

21.04.2026

FAILED CREATION

There is little inspiration,

only longing to write

so these brief lines

forced in the faltering

night as a act

of failed creation

shall live as homunculus

in a jar placed

on the mind's shelf

as it gazes with slowly moving

eyes through its glass

into yet another prison

03.04.2026

JUST AFTER SUNSET ON A MID-APRIL EVENING

The Sun set twenty minutes

ago, and you barely notice

it. Still the same bright

evening light, still the same

long shadows piercing

the golden hues of spring

and the short night

with its

waning stars

still hours away,

adrift in

winding time.

19.04.2026

WHY DO THEY HAVE TO REVEL IN INHUMANITY?

When the Holocaust

is so sacred to them,

why do the Zionists

mock the victims

of the genocide

they are committing?

Isn't killing their victims

enough to those

who demand to themselves

the entire world's sympathy?

Can't they have even

little decency?

19.04.2026

ALEXEI BALEN

If I could go one day

without Zionist supporters of Ukraine

celebrating the genocide of Palestinians

and insulting and mocking the victims

I would be able to feel something else

than anger towards them

and their yellow and blue flag.

They have drained almost

all the sympathy

I had for Ukraine and I have

to think of Belarus and Chechnya

to hope for Russia's defeat,

liberation of those countries,

for these people I could never wish

victory - they are so vile.

They desecrate a just defense

with their genocidal,

hateful Zionism.

Why can't they all go

and die for Ukraine?

19.04.2026

HERACLES' APOTHEOSIS

Deianeira hands over the garment

stained with Nessus' blood

and it will burn

the man

and burn

with the man

on the pyre.

A god will be born

from that fire.

But the dead

centaur has his revenge

and the dead children

Heracles begetted

and slaughtered

theirs too, briefly,

as the flesh feels

the poison

and the flames

of apotheosis.

But in the end

Heracles will be a god

amidst gods

on Olympos

and the shades

of his children

he slew

shall wail in Hades

with the spirit of Nessus.

19.04.2026