( historic dallas grp on fb [1950] / remember? )

The new planet may not be what you think.

for J. A.

Long ago · in other dark times
A few friends gathered · to practice poetry
And whether whelmed · by the dark like most
Or immortally blazed · in the world’s blear eyes
It was ever · such a circle
And affirmed now · in such a friend

One of Us.

  now begins the race
of his failing faculties
  & his heir's stark greed

not to mention betrayal
may fetch him a shiv from Kyiv

"...imagine Roosevelt had not only remained shamefully neutral in the Spanish Civil War but gave Franco the bombs to drop on Guernica." (via @aliner)