We took over the ship, we took over the cargo, we took over the oil. It's a very profitable business.  We're ⁠like pirates. We're sort of like pirates, but we are not playing games. 

-DJ Trump

 Where else would I be?

 Reading Monika Wiesak it seems clear the murder of John F. Kennedy spelled the last chance of stopping Israel's genocidal regime. Until Gaza, until Iran?

-Cats for Peace

 A tree fell on the first gravesite we looked at, the red flag marker was peeking up through the shattered trunk. I viewed it as an auspicious sign that this was the place. Also there's a sweet little mulberry tree for a good neighbor. 

 They still call it a presidential library though it's a private enterprise. They still call America a democracy though it's an oligarchy. They say it's for posterity though it's for power and money, and art-washing his legacy. 

 The circle of hope and change over the ghost of the destroyed women's circle garden, attended by a victorian lady bringer of the flame.

 I see that goose sitting on the nest with her dead eggs. I think of hope and change across the lagoon.