( via / me )

"He will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it."

"Anti-Aubade

You shuffle through your waking house as though
the miracle of dawn does not deserve
acknowledgement, as though the way you go
downstairs, through doorways in the dark, and swerve
around the furniture, is nothing more
than habit, as if comfort doesn’t guide
your feet across the heated hardwood floor.
Your stomach turns at stirs of life outside.
You’re bracing for the dread of this new week,
though really you don’t know a dreadful thing.
You scroll through lifting darkness. What you seek
is anybody’s guess. The song you sing
turns out to be appropriated blues,
and genocides are other people’s news."

--David Rosenthal via @maryanncorbett.bsky.social

ICE in Minneapolis.

"violets, as i walk
clutching their paper fan…
the sun goes out"

--@poemexe.com

"In 140 days, Republican lawmakers pushed through some of the most cynical, cruel, and corrupt legislation we’ve seen in modern Texas history, and they did it with a smile."