SILENTLY

There's this drive

to write,

like it would matter.

But it doesn't,

not if there is no one

to write for.

Then it's just

talking to

yourself, silently.

17.05.2026

THE WESTERN CAPITALISTS

They spoke of freedom

while they plotted

the enslavement of humanity,

every word they spoke

of democracy and liberty

a lie spelled by a forked

tongue extending

from the cavity

where conscience

should have been

and where wailed

hurricane winds.

14.05.2026

THE CREATION OF 'POPULIST' FAR-RIGHT'S POPULARITY

"We want fascists! We want fascists!

We want fascists! We want fascists!"

scream the journalists
and declare:

"The voters want fascists!
The voters want fascists!"

10.05.2026

THE PARENTAGE OF THE WESTERN FASCIST

The Western fascist

has two parents,

a billionaire begetter
and journalist the nurturer
who brings to foul bloom
the rotten seed.

10.05.2026

THE LEAVES OF YESTERYEAR

Dark the land

bright an hour ago

from spring gloom.

Faded pale green

spring day autumn

light in clouds.

Sun covered

spring covered

by clouds

you see clearly

the fallen leaves

of an another

summer 

you missed.

12.05.2026

FAILURE

You would change the past

and you would change the future

and you know only one

                                        is possible,

but here you are,

in the now, 

                    caught

in the web of the unalterable

past, 

         sacrificing the future

for what is hard bedrock

now for all 

that could come.

12.05.2026

THE ROLE GIVEN

All the hours not enough

for what the world demands,

the world deserves,

amplifying truths

from more learned mouths,

more sharp-seeing minds.

12.05.2026

READING DU FU

The world turns dark outside

as you read Du Fu, waiting

for your blood test, bright
colours dimming, and Du Fu
sitting in the dark, red glimmering

in his stove fading

as he writes in the air
for you.

12.05.2026

IF YOU WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED CHECHNYA

If you would have supported Chechnya

against Russia in the two wars

you might not have had to cry about Ukraine

these four of twelve years,

depending on the date 

of your conversion to Kyiv's cause,

you who didn't support Chechnya,

you who supported the fall of the USSR,

you who supported Vladimir Putin,

you who now dream of burning Moscow

with the fervent hate of the newly-converted,

you should have supported Chechnya -

but of course you didn't, you couldn't,

because the victims, the Chechens, were 'wrong'

and now, to you racists,

the victims, the Ukrainians, are 'right'

Just like you support genocide in occupied Palestine

and ignore genocide in Sudan and West Papua

because racism 'guides'

what is left of your 'conscience' -

a withered, foul specimen

that condemns you and all you stand for.

13.05.2026

CARE ABOUT GENOCIDE

If you don't care

about genocide,

we won't care

about your Ukraine,

your beloved Ukraine

that you preach to us about

while embracing genocidaires

and ignoring their atrocities.

How's that for you,

shouters of Slava Ukraini!

Care about genocide

or go unheard.

Care about genocide

in East Turkestan,

in Palestine,

in Sudan,

in West Papua,

everywhere.

Care about genocide.

And you will be heard

and you will be supported.

Solidarity creates solidarity.

Care about genocide.

12.-13.05.2026

WHAT REMAINS OF TWENTY HOURS

I slept nearly twenty hours

after getting back home

from the medical centre,

one cavity filled,

one tube filled with blood,

and it hardly seems

twenty hours had passed

wasted between laying down

and getting up,

the same dim light

beyond the windows,

same birdsong

penetrating the old walls,

but there lingered

vague memories

of a dream with dead pets

returned, one after another,

from landscape of loss,

and dead human beings

ever-present, never gone,

in that dream, now reduced

to few images fleeing

as I write and an ache

that remains stronger

than these words

that capture so little.

13.05.2026

THE DEVOURING PAST

The past eats up

all the future

with its mouth,

today,

until there

is nothing left

but the past,

and us

in its tight embrace

of gone years

and heavy soil.

10.05.2026

WAITING FOR SISSI

At half past nine, waiting the urn

outside the veterinarian's office

at the high ridge lakes

on both sides beyond descending

city, one dim silver approaching

gray, the other with a tinge of red,

the blood of the fallen May Sun.

09.05.2026

THEN YOU HAVE TIME FOR WRITING

Writing is what you

do when you have

failed at everything else.

07.05.2026

SHARDIK

You remember days of childhood illness,

dimness outside not shaping

into any particular season,

laying under blankets on a sofa

with a bucket for vomiting

on the floor beside you, drinking

hot blackcurrant juice, reading

Shardik relieved not to be in school,

and the presence of your mother

constant at the edge of the memory

yet not forming into a vision of her,

her words faded beyond hearing,

while you remember the weight

of the book in your hands.

09.05.2026

TIME NOT EXISTING

The past is a graveyard

inside everyone of us,

and we are already

laying in others cemeteries,

under moss-covered headstones

or in nameless graves

wooden crosses long

ago rotted away.

09.05.2026

POETRY IS HOPE

Poetry is hope,

a liverleaf

in the spring

with every line.

07.05.2026

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