Wednesday, October 30, 2024

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All of Leonard Cohen’s Books Ranked.

"In 1982, hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested against the massacre of the Palestinian population in the refugee camps Sabra and Shatila in western Beirut by Maronite Christian militias, facilitated by the IDF. Today, this kind of response is inconceivable." --Omer Bartov via via @jeannemarieM3 via @dreamsofbeing_

A Glass of Water, a Burning Boy.

lavender Corolla in the broken driveway
  rented for a day, to ferry
blind eyes for a doctor visit with AC
   the only thing my gray car lacks
i might as well be blind for all the sense of future
  turning to the sky can bring
soft in the steep dark outside on the patio rain
  a rusty tide to drag cars
elsewhere & more welcome here as parch cure
  i sense a great wheel turning
that i won't live to see the iteration next
  but what it won't have swept away
prefigured in the tribes that sort themselves by caps
  will fan out over the broken land
& she who led me here is still beside me now
  my main task this Halloween
is try not to be frightened by the noise of wolves
  that she must flee as much as i

:̴̤͍͑̌̾̉͊͌͊̆̽.̴̛̹̈́̉̒̈́̀̽͐͝:̴͓͚̬̼̅̆͑͛̏͝;̷̡̰̤̎-̸̖̱͈̠̬̬̹̉͗͛͂̌̇̾̓̐͜͝/̶̱̻̻̬̥͚͖̬̌̂ͅ:̵̠̼͌̈́̽;̸̨̦̝̺̪̖̩̺͑̔͘͜gm ,̶̠̜̞̻͊̄̌̽̃!̵̧̻̖̗̦͇͂͒͘͠͝(̷̦̳͓̖̻͈͈̼̦̌͗̀̏́͆͜;̴̲̺̻̥̿̏̀̋:̵̧̧̢̖̃͌.

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