focus on jesus, and pass the ammo!

 

 it's the oligarch's world. we just live in it. all we can do is bear witness to what the oligarchs do.

“These crimes will only increase our strength, steadfastness, and unwavering determination,” Hamas said in a statement. “This is the history of the movement and the resistance after the assassination of its leaders: they become stronger, more cohesive, more determined and persistent in their rights and principles."

 

Israel has proven it can kill massive numbers of Palestinian civilians and assassinate Palestinian political leaders. Yet Israel’s occupation army has been unable to defeat an armed insurgency in Gaza that largely manufactures its own weapons and operates under constant attack from U.S. bombs and a modern military. 

-Jeremy Scahill

 

 they're just using christian zionists to do the job of genocide and steal the land.

penny lu's freakin' on clyde's doughnuts.

 

 christian zionism is based on the end times. christian zionism is bloody and delusional. the world will survive christian zionism as the world always survives doomsday cults.

 whelp, my teeth are fixed, but there are still pockets that may probably need fixing down the road. i'm getting a waterpick and i am devoted to my wonderful abiding teeth in the eternal now. everything is grist for the mill, for we are the millers.

 you could be reaching out tenderly to others today. i'll carry my raw garnet in my dog bag. see you out there with chuck and lulu and benny boo. 

it's a new day. it's a new day. 

 

 my teeth are fixed! my teeth are fixed!

                                                                           

 it's so faint it's nearly subliminal, the handwritten message: "leftists love decolonization until jews do it." so the zionists call genocide decolonization? crazy as hell.

it's a new paradigm, really.

 

Who you trying to gaslight, fool?

 The Druze community shouted Murderers! at the Israelis who showed up at the funeral of the twelve soccer players. None of the twelve were Israeli. It was in occupied Syrian territory. It seems obvious, Israel wants to escalate. Meanwhile the axis of resistance has grown, is growing.

 the kite flying on the point was anodyne and disappointing, but i'm reading about a kite festival in the west bank. the organizer has been arrested twice, and the festival has been stopped by settler violence, but it happened this year, between two encroaching illegal settlements, during the ongoing genocide. kite flying is about resistance and resilience and a free palestine.

 good tuesday to you. i'm thinking about a friend who said they feel they have no future. also thinking about the kite flying on the point that was supposed to be about palestine. it felt like a day in the park. i felt palestine inside, but not in the air, not there. maybe others felt it inside and just wanted to let it go and fly a kite. people struggled to get their homemade kites to fly. the butterfly ones from china flew the best and highest. one was so high it disappeared. i know i get caught up in thinking about what is happening and it makes no earthly sense and i just want to fly around with the swallows. my body remembers laying on the edge of a gorge in the shawnee forest and rising up on a thermal wind among the turkey vultures, connected by a filament. but today i have to get up, walk lulu, and go back to the dentist.

i came through pain. can i come through sadness? i know there will be more, but can i come through?

 we should expect a full spectrum of disinformation.
-citizen lab

 

 

magic digs a hole under laura. lulu digs a hole under laura.

hug me, you fool!

 

he who builds his landscape of styrofoam in a stolen public park will find himself buried alive in the dark styrofoam underground of grifter history.

 

We needed an intifada generation, an autumn generation, one that would drop all the fig leaves covering our nakedness and expose our shame to the shattered mirrors inside us. A generation that would grant us the best title we had ever borne: the generation of Stones. 

Nasser Abu Srour, 

The Tale of a Wall

 Murder and abuse is wrong regardless of where in the world it happens to occur. The fact that it isn’t happening to you or anyone you know personally doesn’t make it more ethical, it just makes it more tolerable for you if you’re the sort of person who only cares about yourself and your loved ones. The fact that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris support committing genocide in Gaza shouldn’t feel any more acceptable to you than if they supported committing genocide in Detroit. Morally speaking, there is no difference. 

Caitlin Johnstone 

(for S.G. and B.O.)

 Ancient civilizations arose, filling the world                                       with flourishing and decay, death and revival.                                         All that god’s prophets needed to do was discredit the lies                   that had come before. 

 Nasser Abu Srour,                                                                                             The Tale of a Wall

 

The ability of the elite to lie and the people’s need to believe form the two essential elements in constructing any legend designed to establish the laws that subject a society to the power and legitimacy of some regime. 

Nasser Abu Srour, 

The Tale of a Wall

By recording the memory of the place, the walls themselves became a principal actor upon the stage of events. 

Nasser Abu Srour, 

The Tale of a Wall

 God was like the camp: a site of surrender and acceptance, an abridged alphabet, an existence outside time and place. 

Nasser Abu Srour, 

The Tale of a Wall

 because i'm anti-genocide somebody says maybe i should go fight. so long zionist, you're no friend of mine. 

 This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

 A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.

 With such a people, you can do whatever you want.

—Hannah Arendt

(this keeps coming up, and the reason is indubitably obvious to even the most casual of observers.)

it didn't feel pro-palestinian, or anti-genocide, but let's assume it was, because it needs to be, not that we can control the zionist war machine.

 The history of kites as symbols of defiance and liberation, and tools for uplifting spirits through play is central to our project. We are mindful of the symbolic significance of kites flown in Palestine and stand in solidarity by denouncing the genocide against the people of Palestine. We strongly oppose the Israeli occupation of Gaza and its support backed by the U.S. government. We fly our kites to acknowledge the volatile injustices many Palestinians are facing and offer pathways for cultivating hope and solidarity with them during this time.

UP & UP

i rule the nightstand.

 

 i saw a crazy angry man under the tracks pulling a cart and holding a straw broom. i know i've seen that face times before. i'm not sure if he's the one who threatened to strangle me with a wire. i walked a curve around the angry man and delivered friedl's blackberries. she goes into hospital tomorrow. then i rode to the kite fly on the point. i thought it was for palestine, but i saw no sign of palestine, other than a clock kite set at 10/7. is that for palestine? i didn't ask, afraid of the answer. it was a sad celebration to me, expecting solidarity. on the way home i saw the sign before i die... and this i know is for palestine.

 i start to cry, turn it around.

 black kites for burial, red kites for warning.

 i look and see i have 123 sent friend requests. i don't remember them. i delete them. i have a couple dopplegängers. maybe they made their own requests. these friends are as mysterious as my dopplegängers. 

 i'm getting friend requests from folks in the palestine tree of life. i get nervous, like i'll get subsumed or something. should i just accept all? i get saturated and wonder what they will think of my other posts, just about daily life. but we all need daily life. but strangers' daily life? but no one is a stranger really in the tree of life just a friend you haven't met you know gradually sometimes succinctly from a distance. 

 i read apollo's song in a few hours, half on pebble beach and half on the couch. it was easy, graphic. i started after lives, set it down for later, picked up under the neomoon, picked up shirley hazzard a writing life. i wondered if i had read shirley hazzard, then realized i read the great fire. everything i read goes through me like water. i hope i have the essence. even saturated, i have the thirst. it's always about the next book, and the one after that.

i think of a honkey-tonk piano.