A version of “God Hunting in Mesopotamia” first appeared in Poets Reading the News on March 17, 2017.
Tag Archives: violence
MACMILLER-BOTHAMJEAN.ini
Wikipedia Poem, No. 846
there is that
is the effect ordinary people had
no realized that typically world
i’m thinking about an end
revealizing wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
with all that sadness
internalized that typically we live
what too?
https://twitter.com/bye_philicia/status/1038027538914832389
after reading the world in a peculiar way
i was reading about all the young black men and was a steel
for my mind women and women and revealizing
about all the young black men and mac milled — i’m thinking
myselfish sadness
internalized that typically we teach of trust
reading the end i felt deflated
i stay that sadness
internalized that typically worlded
i stayed as is a feature of botham’s friends of sadness
of sadness internalizing about 10 mind women-on
the world in the world i spectacle over earnest
seems to be had no apparent contributing
he was steel for my psychology papers
examining myself was reading heartbroken
its subject the effect ordinary people to twitter.com/trump
in which i was steel for 4 years to the world
in the world i’m a thing about an acquaintance of sadness
internalized that typically we live
what is
when is
i’m this phenomenon of the world in which
Harris and Galtung Wheatpaste Hudson, New York
Wikipedia Poem, No. 843
An act of violence occurs when injury or suffering is inflicted upon a person or persons by an agent who knows (or ought reasonably to have known), that his actions would result in the harm in question. John Harris
Violence is present when human beings are being influenced so that their actual somatic and mental realisations are below their potential realisations. Johan Galtung
let me put this
bluntly as possible
upon a person or suffering
inflicted present when injury or suffering
presents who knows (or ought
reasonably to have
know violence is present who knows
(or ought to have
known (realisations by an agent
when human beings are beings below
the harm in their actions
below their actions
result in harm some aught
realisations result in their actions
would result in their actions
beings are beings
below the harm of the harm
in their actions
by an agent who knows
(or ought reasonably to have known
that his actions violence is present
when injury or suffering
inflicted upon a person
or suffering influenced
so that his act violenced upon
so that his actual somatic
and mental realisations
are nags as beings are beings
Breakfast in Bed (Overnight Iranian Forces Fire)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 778
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
Colonial Backwash
Wikipedia Poem, No. 700
simple hunger from the eastern shore just past edge of frame the worst violence is a hunger for power the open ocean from the brutal american nurture by all of us drowned saying hunger from the pacific creation’s backyard deemed too far think of horror the you ess frigate united states out on these lighteenth shipped wars well done not in theory the viewer perhaps observes it is colonialism how this hunger from the easy station of the worst violence metaphor what resources today from india flint china mahwah mountainside vietnam bangladesh syria sperm whale alabama lead-in-the-water san diego staten island hackensack happiness within us all
“One should aim to memorize the precise point on the map to retrieve those pleasures.”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 694
you logic in softness please so stay rodents surface war again some sinful slime a boar ever in bush you pinch birch crush them between bite the seconds count to 206 degrees you posit soft chew that proof of god in the bark not weak please again don't knock
Violence / In modest tints arrayed / Within the silent shade
Wikipedia Poem, No. 602
“When I was a younger man / I could feel the entire world / But now that I’m older…” Busdriver
After Jane Taylor and Hoa Nguyen
verbal but not a lover who attunes illusion
nor is the lover a poem learning to walk on sand somatic stand-in
size and broadway that aggravates its homonym thinking about
him whether this lover meant moat or mote
slight quant of allusion is the specious condition of dollar
which aggravates you walking into the spinning fire
euclid measures across the lull of a dog and me steaming
a mouthful of rod starvations of posture impeccable
shorts tossed off like shirts like a healer-reader of wallace mic
eagle james american dream sketch paper corpse tree appears in the wild
a slight but specific plume men are taught that one wakes to his bodies
lined like a baking sheet matthew supermodel baraka my dollar
which aggravates that specious condition that attuned the dog outward
my dog ill and steaming a mouthful of patina-thought of whistle men
taught at the front which aggravates the looming cross the tiki torch
now a dog steaming how to transform our shared conditional maw
To Think and Choose in America Now
Wikipedia Poem, No. 576
“What can I do to myself? Bones / and dusty skin. Heavy eyes twisted / between the adequate thighs of all / humanity (a little h), strumming my head / for a living. Bankrupt utopia sez tell me / no utopias. I will not listen. (Except the raw wind / makes the hero’s eyes close, and the tears that come out / are real.” Amiri Baraka, 1964
downtown
mall kill 32-year-old woman some thirty
four others injured fights date over bloodiest fights
date over
bloodiest
city’s choice
remove
statue robert e lee nationalists no plan
demolition
nineteen rally city’s choice remove
statue robert
e lee
nationalists no plan
demolition nineteen
rally city’s choice remove statue robert e lee
nationalists no plan
demolition nineteen rally
city’s
choice remove
statue robert e
lee nationalists no plan
demolition
nineteen rally city’s
choice remove statue robert e lee nationalists no
plan
demolition nineteen rally city’s
choice remove
statue
robert e
lee
nationalists no
plan demolition nineteen rally city’s
choice remove statue robert e lee nationalists no
plan
demolition nineteen
rally city’s
choice
remove
statue robert
e lee nationalists
no
plan demolition
nineteen rally city’s choice remove statue robert e
lee nationalists no plan demolition nineteen rally
city’s choice remove statue robert
e lee
nationalists no
plan demolition
nineteen
rally city’s downtown mall kill 32-year-old woman
some
thirty
four others
injuredition nineteen rally
city’s choice
remove statue robert e lee
nationalists no plan demolition nineteen rally
city’s downtown mall
kill 32-year-old
woman some
thirty four
others
injuredition nineteen rally city’s choice remove
statue robert e lee nationalists no plan demolition
nineteen rally city’s downtown mall kill
32-year-old woman some
thirty four others injuredoice
remove
statue robert e lee nationalists no plan
demolition nineteen rally city’s choice
remove statue robert e
lee
nationalists
no plan demolition nineteen rally city’s choice
remove statue robert e
lee nationalists no
plan demolition nineteen rally city’s choice
remove
statue robert e
lee nationalists no plan demolition nineteen rally
city’s choice
remove statue robert e lee nationalists no plan
demolition nineteen rally city’s choice remove statue
robert
e
lee nationalists
no
plan demolition
nineteen rally city’s
choice remove statue
robert e lee nationalists no plan
demolition nineteen rally city’s choice
remove statue robert
e lee nationalists no plan
demolition nineteen rally city’s downtown mall kill
32-year-old woman some thirty four others injuredition nineteen rally
city’s choice remove
statue robert e lee
nationalists no
plan demolition nineteen rally city’s choice
remove
statue robert
e lee
Sources:
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Brian M. Rosenthal. “State of Emergency Declared in Charlottesville After Protests Turn Violent.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 12 Aug. 2017. Web. 13 Aug. 2017.
Baraka, Amiri. “History as Process.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, Dec. 1964. Web. 13 Aug. 2017.
On The Media
warm we link arms before the brawl breaks our ranks we touch again ineffectual fist to ineffectual face we are touched again to be peeled apart sprayed toward sobbing and held again in rapturous pain do you remember now singing by torchlight? do you remember the strange sounds of which we are capable? the moan the mutter the laugh around campfire and when campfires tamp and glow and our bodies just cool of a blister kind and momentary sister to sister brother to brother all else like a staircase rises up or helps us descend in time it is a struggle to keep cool to fight with one's own fire the necessary stoke and recoil.
Notes from an iPhone
Wikipedia Poem, No. 527
“it is impossible not to hunger for eternity” Jorie Graham
men stand at car windows
knock on car windows
crystal stemware
in the lonely gardens of
masculinity crystal
stemware knocking watch
mediterranean men
stand watch stand
in the lonely
gardens
of skinny
mediterranean
men standing off
fingers off
antique replicas of skinny offers
skinny mediterranean
men stand at the skinny windshield
crystal stemware knock on car windows
crystal stemware knock
car windows and windshields
crystal stem knock car windows
crystal knock in car windows
crystal stemware knock the car
wind whip the window
crystals stemware
knocking
fingers
off antique
replicas of
masculinity
mediterranean
men men men
standing watch
in
the lonely
gardens
of skinny
mediterranean standards at car windows
dirty crystal
stemware knock
car
windows into begging
crystal
crystal
stemware knock knock
crystal car windows
crystal stemware
watch
in the lonely gardens of skinny
mediterranean men standing
fingers
off antique replicas of masculinity
poems?
his vicious
iron
hammer
bursting
watch
in the lonely gardens of
masculinity
his
vicious
iron hammer bursting car
windows
crystal
stemware knocking
watching
in the
lonely garden