i'm reading all the time. i'm reading atavists. sly stone left his music. i'm remembering when virgo bought me his record, fresh, in east saint louis in 1973, i still feel elated, withal the gravity intervening. the crew of madleen are being deported. people are imagining thousands of ships of solidarity converging on gaza, to liberate palestine. we can dream, we can read beyond the present genocide, nothing true ever dies.