Twit Live-Tweets Twit’s Own Funeral
and no one notices Twit is
not dead and is live-tweeting Twit’s
funeral because everyone
is live-tweeting Twit’s funeral.
Twit leads the procession to Twit’s
gravesite. On the way Twit … Read more
Society
Lockdown October 5, 2022
now on full lockdown
this is not a drill
Snapchat erupts with unfounded rumours
sadistic humors
we churn like a cumulus
count death with a calculus
huddle in a corner… Read more
Happy Meals & Unhappy Times
an abecedarian
(interrupted by two nuggets / two fries)
on happy meals & unhappy times
/ what happens when mcdonald’s nuggets are nothing
more than a reminder that lists (& … Read more
On Morality’s Many Prepositions and Propositions / We Are Committed to Resist and to Persist
Written to commit Mona Eltahawy’s words and work to memory
We are
More Than what’s
on/of/in
our beds
& the hues
on our heads
More Than what’s
between/amongst/within
our limbs… Read more
The Only Place They’ve Ever Known
When some decide to not evacuate,
referring to those souls who have a choice,
in war or weather leaving up to fate
preferring God or luck to have a voice … Read more
Lying in State
Celebrity cults on public display
from Academy Award ceremonies
to World Trade Center tributes,
farewell funerals to space station
concerts where droning bagpipes
shatter interstellar serenity; wheezing
bellows nurture reeds … Read more
No Longer Yours
Dearest politicians,
Don’t call me senseless.
Don’t call me by a different self.
Don’t call me this or that
Or anything else
I can’t stand it,
I have no time—… Read more
Promise Me
that you will put me in a gun
and shoot my loneliness from me
when I turn into a bullet
throw me into a river
so my swimming body can … Read more
Alito Draft Causes Sonnick* Boom
A draft leaked from the bowels of SCOTUS
Putting our country’s women on notice:
States can own your womb, from cradle to tomb
No one can stop this, not even … Read more
America: the safest place to be?
Cozied into my recliner–
the one with the prayer shawl
to lean into, wrap around shoulders,
when things get too tragic too often.
I turn on the 5:30 news
as … Read more
Gundrunk Blues for Uvalde
Bullets pump from the chambers of our magnum hearts
Lead and cordite course through our clotted veins
Poisoned blood singing songs of annihilation
Psalms of death
Our love on sale … Read more
A ROSE FOR HER SISTER
She takes the garden shears with her,
Long handles, sharp blades
Crops burn in the Caucasus.
Aurora Borealis shimmers,
Streaming lilac over Chicago.
The irradiated night sky.
She steps lightly … Read more
As It Happens
As it happens, reeling
from losses of strangers,
Joan Didion always slouched.
She made it glamorous,
articulate, and suave.
As it happens, Desmond Tutu.
Said “You don’t choose your family.… Read more
Living The Dream
In Camazotz all emotion has been eradicated
We go through the motions of a satisfying life
Doing everything in time and just right
Never lingering on the curves of love … Read more