Do You Know Kurdistan? (Truth is an Unclean Room and an Embarrassed Child)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 933

Day of Rest (Hiwa-Serra), 2019
Day of Rest (Hiwa-Serra), 2019

“Your brother is shooting you.” Hiwa K

ˈstɑːn/; kurdish entirety population and kurds”) or greater kurdistan (/ˌkɜːrdɪˈstæn, ˈstɑːn/; kurdistan (/ˌkɜːrdɪˈstæn, ˈstɑːn/; kurdish people form a prominent majority population and kurdistan roughly defined geo-cultural historical region of kurdish cultural historically based. kurdish people form a prominent majority population and kurdish: کوردستان‎ [ˌkʊɾdɯˈstɑːn] (about this soundlisten); lit. “region of kurdish irredentist claims. the territory corresponds to kurdish people from a prominent majority population and kurdish irredentity population and the vast annex

use of the term campaign for greater autonomy with kurdistan), northern campaign for greater independent nationalist organizational boundariestan kurdistan), northern of these areas: southeastern turkey (northern iraq (southeastern turkey (northern iraq (southeastern turkey (northern turkey (northern turkey (northwestern turkey (northers create an independent national boundaries area: southeastern turkey (northern creature autonomy with a kurdish nationalist organization state an independent nationalist organizationalist organizationalist organizationalist organizational boule

government, their own government, unredeemed autonomy in a feudal syrian civil war was a province by their own government forces, loyal to take control of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of families large sections of large sections of large sections of large sections of northern syrian civil war where is the province by the name kurdistan first gained as an autonomous federal state after the federal syrian civil war where is is not is not is

My Homunculus

Wikipedia Poem, No. 928

Black & Gold Pyramids
Heights of Golan

myself: porcelain command line
door you guys sell bananas?
on a long enough timeline lost
do you guys some neck
selling bananas? mom’s
common sense—this place.

myself: one can’t scrub you guys
sell bananas? on a long
enough timeline moon
grunts line lifting her
mercy mirrorshades belly
myself porcelain common

myself: long enough timeline
moon feel happiness
release buttons belly
buttons begging his
mba he’ll let megabanks
mercy mirrorshades begging

myself: where i find myself
porcelain common long
door you guys
sell bananas on a long
timeline lost you guys neck
says neck says bananas

myself: in a spreadsheet line
door you solve with yr
abiding you want little
handsome neck he streets
line lost do you guys
sell bananas on a long

myself: prison timeline clean
this one build moon mercy
mirrorshades begging press
release button belly buttons belly
buttons begging internet i aim it
at my peers leave can’t grey away

myself: internet i aim little press
release buttons belly
buttons talking difference
do you solve with yr abiding
of consolidated homunculus
coming up short

Artifacts of Reference, No. 14

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A version of “God Hunting in Mesopotamia” first appeared in Poets Reading the News on March 17, 2017.

Breakfast in Bed (Overnight Iranian Forces Fire)

Wikipedia Poem, No. 778

Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-9-26,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-Y

overnight iranian forces fire
d around 20 rockets into the
israeli-controlled golan heights target
ing forward positions of the israel
i military according to an
israeli military spokesman the
rockets were all either intercepted
or fell short of their mark the spokesman said
but were nevertheless a signifi
cant escalation in iran’s maneuv
ers in the middle east though israel
has hit iranian forces in syr
ia with a number of deadly air
strikes tehran has been restrained in hitting
back until now until now until now
by thursday morning the country’s air force

“What did they attack? How did Syria react?”

Wikipedia Poem, No. 757

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The New Syrian Flag

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‘There Are No Innocent People in Gaza’

Wikipedia Poem, No. 752

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defense minister avigdor liberman on sunday said us president donald trump did not ask for israels view before announcing his planned withdrawal of american troops from syria adding that the jewish state will likely have to operate alone against its various enemies he also slammed international criticism of the killing of nine palestinians during fridays clashes on the gaza border branding it hypocrisy and claiming there were no innocent people in gaza he later clarified that his use of the hebrew word tamim was intended to mean not innocent but naive president trump didnt ask me liberman said when asked during an interview with israel radio about the us plan to leave syria despite israeli fears of iranian-backed terror groups encroaching on its northern border i wouldnt presume to give advice that hasnt been requested from me

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Source: Bachner, Michael. “Liberman Signals Trump Didn’t Consult with Israel on Syria Withdrawal.” The Times of Israel, 8 Apr. 2018. 10:15 a.m. Web.

Shiva-Ogawa

Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-9-26,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-Y

the most interesting thing about the spraying
from a big industrial gun it gives you a new body
amodal completion it’s very rare that you read
something profound and fundamental on color
più grande it’s a report on how things are today
how are things? they are afraid of the violence
within themselves for instance you walk in and
faint he said begins the bodies of two women
and two children killed in wednesday’s shelling
were also brought to the hospital isn’t one enough?
red deer headdress functional magnetic resonance
imaging measures brain activity by detecting
changes associated with blood flow more gear
from the brands you love I’ve found peace
in my manafort its single small cell though
the ceilings reach up to the bright white rain tens of
thousands of east african migrants have gone
to israel in the past decade your life can rely on
the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal
activation are coupled three tablespoons of fresh
chopped chives they approach you
guns drawn on lapidary corneas when an area of
also increases bright and dark night and day
summer and winter oak king holly king epenthesis
this line is how we live now the long reign blinking
retroflex consonants lexical set word ballet slipper
the brain is in use blood flows to that region peach
punch fuschia taffy destroying some necessary part of it

Ivanka Trump

Wikipedia Poem, No. 444

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the syrian government’s chief advisor
ivanka trump flying broken alone over syrian air space
says that palm beach is in the midst of a chemical crisis

attempts to clean the irradiated soil have
up to this point in history
produced nothing but well-documented failures

prejudicial security measures have just now been unilaterally
launched from an ersatz bunker west of topeka in paxico
all failures for the foreseeable future will be met with abstruse silence

fumigate bannon fumigate his united states remotely
from syrian air space the nation’s warchief fueled by
transuranic oral supplements like electric jittering trail mix

the operating orders will cleave a not-substantial
landmass south from palm beach to fort myers
into the blue gulf the nation must remain united

all failures are in the
interest of our muslim
brothers and sisters

Sappho

Wikipedia Poem, No. 428

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“I am coming; but I do not think I could better explain what they are, than I have done by exclusion of the other figures.” Socrates via Valéry

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the poet
graciously
meant to say
output
as in copula
or contains
particles and determines
its simplest yet
most meaningful verb
twined around sappho’s
esophagus the symptoms
a poet’s symptoms
manifest in the divorce
of stratonice
stratonice of syria
queen of the seleucid empire
from 300 bc until 294 bc

Mirror Neurons Over America

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The dog in bed
Lays longwise
Across the duvet

Looks me in the eye
Innocently, like the two-year-old
Syrian girl without a passport.

Alarm clock
Radio talking too loud
in the other room.

The dog in bed
Has ticked away from me
Could be coffee breath

Or selfishness,
It being late morning now.
Nearly twelve hours have passed

Since her last walk. I pissed
Twice in the minty night
And thought nothing of it

Until now. Her breathing
Gentle, a bit staccato and
She has tocked back to me.

When we make eye contact
Her long white lash flutters
And she pulls air into her lungs

In such a way that a high-pitched
Whistle curls out from her wet brown nose
A whisper of smoke, and her tail

Beats twice with rhythm
On the bedsheet. A third time.
I’m surprised and ignore her

To write this. Hard sigh. She is better
Not knowing what I know
About 1676,

Or needing a mug of sweet, hot coffee delivered to her
In bed to get going. Let’s go, girl, for that walk
Across a Europe that does not want or need us.