"The twenty-first poem must
*
oh
but
you know
how they died —
thousands of children
underneath bombs and bulldozers
today, a girl still under a mountain of rubble
and buried in a line, thirteen children from one family – a precision air strike:
they tell us to ignore the growling dark in the sky
but a poem must write of drones
that swallow the doves
a poet
must scream
must
cry
*"
~ Rajani Radhakrishnan at Thot Purge
Yes Goblin is still around. Mood much?
"Here's my new favorite joke:
knock knock
who's there?
hike
hike who?
Unsuspecting friend.
I await with bated breath.
Sets the perfect trap."
--@jhammersley.bsky.social via @guentheralex.bsky.social
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