all roads lead to tel aviv.  -epstein

Needless to say, at this point, there is no sense of dread or fear of going to war with Iran: in Israel and the US people have gotten used to watching their collective, political life, like it was television. Fatalism has been internalized, among other things, because most people find it almost impossible to imagine that they can resist the brainwashing machine of establishments.

Alon Mizrahi

 it's not just epstein, it's power, it's radical evil, it's everywhere. 

 you want to know how it all connects? it's epstein.

 i didn't mean it that way. 

reading bill knott. thinking about a friend who introduced me to his first books. i lapsed. i just read the friend died in january. i'm sad we lost contact. reading knott i was transported to my own memory of an elementary school pencil sharpener and chalk cloud erasures on the blackboard and beating the felt erasers outside and dust in my eyes and on my clothes and i also felt inside the poem as though i was writing it at the same time. knott now has been a ghost for 12 years and my friend no longer responds after my lapse. it makes me sad but it helps to feel.

 

i was up in the window on 17 

thinking i could be up there forever 

watching you are america, words

senselessly repeating in time with birds 

of prey 

nesting in the letters

like a window i could be

cranky with time thinking 

like a birdbrain

how will i overcome.