IN DYING OCTOBER

No landscape

should be as beautiful

as this one is,

blue skies

and golden light

on towering evergreens,

when so many

good and kind minds

are as cold as

the frozen earth,

which heavily upon

them rests.

31.10.2022

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BETTER DARKNESS THAN THE DYING OF THE LIGHT

It's days since I last

saw the light of day,

and I have no wish

to see it again.

Better to live in darkness,

better to shun the pale light,

the brief hours between

the dawn and the dusk,

than to see the cold world

awash with faded gold

and then waning in red fire

into the starless void.

28.10.2022

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MOST PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY

 Most people in this country

know very little

about the world.

Try to talk to them

about what goes on

and they first become dismissive

and then angry.

Most people in this country

want to know very little

about the world.

Try to talk to them

about what they don't know

and they first become dismissive

and then angry.

Most people in this country

want to curl up in a fetal position

and suck their thumb.

Try to talk to them

so that they would get up

and they first become dismissive

and then angry.

26.10.2022

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BUT I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE HEATING ON

Sound of rain

on the rusted roof,

a blessed sound

for all in

this late October -

a warm night,

a blessed night,

in these days,

telling

of  lower

heating bills

with each sound.

26.10.2022

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EDWARD II SLAVA UKRAINI

Ram Ukraine

through the assholes

of all the people

crying about it

after decades

of supporting

other invasions,

other occupations.

26.10.2022

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TO MY FORMER RIGHTWING SWEDISH TEACHER, WHO DIED AT 65, ABOUT FOUR YEARS TOO LATE

Too often our lives

become mistakes

made by people

who never have to

pay for making them,

pay for the pain

we go to inflict

on others, the mistakes

we make

out of others' lives;

they live happily,

they die content.

26.10.2022

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LOOKING FOR A COMFORTING LIE, TO LAST FOR THE REST OF LIFE

It matters not, this life,

after the last breath has

been exhaled;

yet it would

make all the difference,

before the end,

if we could

lie convincingly

that it does.

01.05.-25.10.2022

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THERE ARE NO DREAMS WORTH BEING DISAPPOINTED

Don't dream.

Just don't.

Literally

and figuratively.

Just sleep

and live,

eyes wide open,

until they close them

in the end which

no dream can defer.

25.10.2022

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LONELINESS

Such lonesome path

to this moment in time,

cold like a frozen tear,

such a lonesome path

marked by the victims'

graves.

25.10.2022

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SOLE JUSTIFICATION

In that same decade, H.D. wrote three novels dealing

with same-sex desire; she published none of them. 

Charlie Tyson: H.D.’s Art of Failure(2022).

A great author who doesn't publish

is like a great lover who never

seduces, never makes love -

utterly useless.

The sole justification for their

existence is in their art,

whether that of flesh,

or of printed words.

A great author who doesn't

publish is like a great lover

who only masturbates -

utterly useless.

24.10.2022

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TARA(2010-2022)

  To my friend Tara, February 2010 - October 21st 2022.

You who were happy

and kind, you who

were loving and loyal,

you who never hurt

anyone, not even a cat,

through all your

almost thirteen years,

you are dead and I,

I cry for you

like I cried for my parents,

for you, like them,

were kind and loving,

and deserved all the

years of the world

to come.

21.10.2022

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TARA

 I would have gladly

let people die

so that you could

have lived

for another day,

my beautiful,

beloved friend.

For you were

kind and intelligent,

wise in your canine way,

and so many human beings

are not kind,

intelligent, wise -

or humane at all.

Politicians and generals,

captains of industry,

hedge fund managers,

and social media influencers

I would have let die

so that you could

have lived for

one more day.

21.-22..10.2022

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TARA

I will never

forget you,

but the world

will forget

us both.

19.10.2022

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SUBMERGED

The landscape brightens with strong

brush strokes; sunlight embraces

the sunken trees standing bare

at the bottom of the atmosphere;

with outreached arms, caught in the

currents of the autumn winds,

they pleaded the distant stars

and at present the Sol has come.

18.10.2022

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TO TARA

The aspens along the streets

bring dreamlike light

into the gloom of the late

October afternoon;

thousands upon thousands

of small lanters burning

brightly on boughs

as I walk away

from your coming

 death.

18.10.2022

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FOR TARA

On the farther edge

of autumn,

on the edge of

death,

each breath

existence,

each breath

a pain -

death in the

flesh, in the

autumn air

death, yet

for these

last, final days,

life, and still

a tail held up.

17.10.2022

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TARA

Autumn colours,

morning sunshine,

gilded orange

on boughs and

frosted ground.

Deep dread,

frost of a kind,

lays cold

on my mind

for an old friend.

07.10.2022

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18 LIVES LOST

Four more youths killed in Jenin

by Israel's occupation forces

on Wednesday;

that makes 18 human beings

killed by Israeli occupation

troops in September

on Palestine's occupied

West Bank, so far; 

but all the press

says is "Ukraine,

Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine,

Ukraine, Ukraine!"

28.09.2022

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DART

We can now smash

open an asteroid

the size of a skyscraper,

but why not?

We have millions

of years

of experience

in how to smash

rocks - and hearts.

27.09.2022

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SILVER MOONLIGHT

All of us,

just withered leaves

fallen

in the freezing

autumn night,

yet

some

have silver moonlight

caressing them.

27.09.2022

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MY FAULT, OUR FAULT

It took almost a lifetime

for this man to come to understand

the justified bitterness

of women

in this world, in these

societies shaped and ruled

by men and our blind

beliefs, our willing ignorance.

27.09.2022

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AMONG THE LONG SHADOWS OF GRIEF

Lunar light bathes the September night,

cool light falling on colder graves,

the light of dead seas, the silence

of billions of years, shrouds

your resting places.

15.09.2017-25.09.2022

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THE MEMORY OF FLESH AND BLOOD

The gaze we saw fade

in the eyes of a departed

we see again blaze

in they eyes of a toddler,

in the walk of a child

we recognize the steps

of a lost one.

16.09.2020-27.09.2022

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THOSE WHO ARE NOT INTERESTED ABOUT HISTORY

Those who are not interested about history

are probably not also really

interested about the future;

our current moment is part of the past

of the future, part of the base

on which it will be built,

with rest of the human history.

05.02.2018-27.09.2022

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION SINGS OF EUROPEAN VALUES

1

Invasion can only be opposed in Ukraine,

everywhere else it must be supported,

for the sake of Ukraine!

Occupation can only be opposed in Ukraine,

everywhere else it must be supported,

for the sake of Ukraine!

Annexation can only be opposed in Ukraine,

everywhere else it must be supported,

for the sake of Ukraine!

2

If we wouldn't support invasions

for the sake of Ukraine,

what would happen to European values?

If we wouldn't support occupations

for the sake of Ukraine,

what would happen to European values?

If we wouldn't support annexations

for the sake of Ukraine,

what would happen to European values?

3

Only Ukraine!

Only Ukraine!

For the sake of European values,

only Ukraine!

Only Ukraine!

For the sake of European values,

only Ukraine!

Only Ukraine!

For the sake of European values!

27.09.2022

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THE CRUELTY I HAVE WROUGHT

We

want the dying

to be polite, stoic,

to face their pain

and the end

of their lives,

bravely, without

causing trouble,

unneccessary turmoil

and grief

to ourselves

as their days

run out into

the abyss.

We

don't want to see

them angry,

so that we

won't be upset,

that we can

sail as smoothly

as possible

through this time,

their suffering,

their death,

into our lives

beyond their

death.

We

are cruel

and selfish,

we who one day

are expected

to play the same

final role,

to be stoic and

not to be a burden,

not to hurt those

who still have

their lives

opening out.

26.09.2022

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THIS IS WHO AND WHAT I AM

The weaknesses,

but not the strengths,

of my immediate

ancestors:

This is who

and what

I am.

25.09.2022

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ACTIONS DEFINE YOU

You, the natural philosopher,

believe that you are

what you think,

but to everyone else

you are what

you do.

Actions define you.

25.09.2022

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Three weeks ago

it felt she had been

alive forever,

now it feels

like she has always

been dead.

25.09.2022

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THE AUTUMN DUSK AND THE AUTUMN NIGHT

The autumn sun descended

bathing the crowns of trees

in bright orange flames,

but here I stayed, sitting

before my computer,

reading the poems of others,

drinking mugs of coffee

in the stale indoor air,

and down went the sun,

from the ground rose

the shadow of the night,

throwing a black cape

over the cold land,

and here I still sit

before my computer,

writing poems,

drinking mugs of coffee

in the stale indoor air,

and outside a thousand stars

might be shining.

25.09.2022

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LABOUR FILES

Too often a modern journalist

is not a person who investigates,

who reveals information,

but instead hides what can

and controls the release

of what can't be hidden:

A censor.

25.09.2022

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THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING

You think your life

is of no importance,

but your every act

affecting another

human being

will shape

their lives,

and through that,

for good or ill,

an ever expanding

circle of humanity,

in space and time,

will be affected

by you, as

long as there

are human beings.

25.09.2022

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CANINE DESCARTES

I get

other dogs

to bark,

thus

I exist.

22.09.2022

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FATHER

Oh, if you would be here to see how Kabul

has fallen like Saigon, the Americans

escaping... I can see you sitting

here, almost hear your voice...

What you would say

about 1975 now?

15.-19.08.2021-15.09.2022

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IT MATTERS NOT, THIS LIFE

It matters not, this life,

when it has run its course

and worms have had their fill,

yet it would make all the difference,

before the end, if we could

just pretend it would.

We all need our crutches

so that we can go on limping

to the awaiting silence.

01.05.-15.09.2022

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LEAVE GOOD MEMORIES

Only memories

will be left

when we are gone,

so leave

good memories

to those who shall

one day

bring flowers

on your grave.

21.04.2022

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WHEN YOU AWAKEN INTO THE NIGHT

  The beast crashing

through the window

in the eldritch moonlight

no dashing count

in black and crimson,

cape flowing;

in the shattering of glass

glimmer yellow fangs,

blood-red eyes brimming madness -

from death and hell arisen,

a vampire screaming in rage

and bloodlust towards

your bed plunges.

26.03.-15.09.2022

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MUSHROOMS

 All along the overgrowing

old forest road, abandoned

by wheels of cars and tractors,

mushrooms in the autumn gloom.

In the shade of the old trees surviving,

of the thicket grown a jungle

 on the logged side of the path, they

have their crisp fall resurrection. 

15.09.2022

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THE LAST AUTUMN

  It's always

the last

autumn for

someone.

One season

it will be for you.

Perhaps this

one.

Treat

this fall

like it would be

the last

you

walk among

falling leaves.

15.09.2022

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EPITAPH

Women fear the men

and the men lust the women,

and any understanding

too late for them comes.

14.09.2022

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THIS GRIEF-CARVED LANDSCAPE

In mid-September, the foliage

of late August of my youth

robes the trees; a changed world,

and for the worse, and all of

it a mirror for my inner landscape

on this gray morning, with

rain and griefs pregnant -

a painting for the dime-store

Dorian Gray in me.

14.09.2022

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HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO CAN BELIVE IN MEANING IN LIFE

What a misery it's to be

a human being without the illusions

which evolution, culture and society

have thrown as a veil over our reality

and our mind, which yearns

to be veiled and dreaming.

07.09.2022

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ODE TO OLAF SCHOLZ

Germany pretends

that it has a conscience, pretends

as a nation and a state and a people,

pretends that it has a conscience

bleeding remorse. No.

It has nothing. No conscience,

no remorse.

It's national soul is that

of a very clear psychopath,

a master actor with many masks,

and behind the mask of Olaf Scholz

a chilling void in the mind.

Germany plays its pretension so well

that even the actor often believes in it.

Do not fall for it. If they would have

had Zyklon-B during the Drach Nach Osten,

in Rheinland during the First Crusade,

do you doubt they would have used it?

Hitler was not aberration; he was

the 'essential German', the beast

in full control of itself,

unleashed.

Inside every German Christian

lives a part of Hitler,

inside Hitler lived a part

of every Christian German.

Hitler is the ultimate truth about Germany,

a pile of bodies reaching from shore

to shore between blood-fed seas

and rivers, between bone-littered

time and the crimson sky

to which ashes eternally

rise as smoke.

06.09.2022

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CHILE

I'm angry beyond words,

and you should be too,

if this shit is still happening

when you are reading,

the lies of the rich,

the fear of the native,

driving people to stick

a fork in their own eye.

05.09.2022

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SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND

Inspired by a tweet from @SophiesCatch.

On the blue waters

the sound of a fire crackling,

when atmospheric gas

in glacial ice melting

in contact with seawater

comes.

The sound of a world burning,

the sound of a world ending.

31.08.2022

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A CHRISTENING INTO THE RELIGION OF WAR

I have begun musketry. I have lectures on making maps.

Once a week we have night operations to get used to the sound

& sight of troops in the dark.

Once a week we have a march around Hampstead ending with a swim.

- Edward Thomas(1878-1917), September 3rd 1915.

So much a man has to learn

so that he can be allowed

to die for his country.

A map he has to make

to mark the place

where he would fall.

And once a week given

baptism in a river, without

hope of a resurrection,

for they are baptised

into the religion of war,

in which the wreaths

around the heads

of the fallen are made

out of their intestines.

03.09.2022

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A WORLD ENSLAVED

A world in which the enslaved

are advised not to attack their enslaver

is a world without progress.

02.09.2022

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