'Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.'

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947

"...What keyhole have we slipped through, what door has shut?
The shadows of the grasses inched round like hands of a clock,
And from our opposite continents we wave and call.
Everything has happened."

Sylvia Plath, "The Babysitters"

'I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.'

Socrates, quoted by Plutarch "On Banishment"

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Everyone has lots of anti-war poems, but here's one that's a palindrome.

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Here's my tanka about "Salam Pax":

  Blogger in Iraq
silent a week now--thousands
  click on the site, wait,
maybe try refreshing, say:
"Could be the electric's out."