COMPASSION, THEN DESPAIR

A DARKER KIND OF HOPE

LIKE SOME DISEMBODIED FIST IN A MAX ERNST SKY

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ONE FOR RICHTER FROM THE WORLD OF UNCERTAIN GHOSTS

WHY THE STARVING MAN ALWAYS SPEAKS OF ESCAPE

ALL OF YOU DEAD MEN, SINGING YOUR SONGS OF HOPE

LUNACY VS PROPHECY

ALL OF YOUR EMPTY DECLARATIONS OF LOVE

[IF WE KILL THEM ENOUGH THEY WILL LOOK JUST LIKE US]

torch

in that moment before the last one, right
there, three a.m. with the machines
all turned off and the hallways echoing with the
footsteps of dying women, women with the
heads of dogs, of birds, of minotaurs, and i
turned to you and asked is he dead? and i turned
to you and asked are we there yet? and
you smiled, you were crying, were pulling tiny
crosses from your hair, the bones of minor
gods, had the gun aimed towards the sky,
warm sunlight like the sticky hands of priests
down the lengths of our naked bodies, and
we were fucking when the woman was
discovered missing, you were bent over and
hanging onto the refrigerator and the baby
was crying, was saying something about
mommy, about the stains on the rug, nothing
that made any sense and the room stank of
bleach, and when you came it was like
the war was finally over


when the moment arrived, none of us
thought it would matter


we just stood there talking while
the north tower fell

LET THE DOGS DRAG YOUR CHILDREN TO THE RIVER

ALWAYS SOMEONE’S

VERSION OF THE TRUTH AT

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with heartfuls of sand and of mud, with the river run dry

sick of myself at 4 in the afternoon

ice on the shadowed sides of
sleeping factories

weeds

no news from god since before
i was born
and then the death of his only son
played out for cheap entertainment

this is the world you inherit and
then it becomes
the one you pass on

these are the dreams you dream after
your lover is done with them

daughter was only 3 years old,
was filled with cancer
and the sunlight was a lie

the moment approached and
then it passed
and the fear is what remains

call whatever it is you feel
faith
and then see how far it takes you

BECAUSE ONLY A DOUCHEBAG WOULDN'T SEE THE HUMOR IN THIS

'Friends, you're going to love Greenland. I was there on 9/11'

Donald Trump tweeted today he had purchased Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark for $15bn plus Kanye West and the state of Massachusetts.

Still, the announcement has been questioned abroad. Prime minister of Greenland Kim Kielsen, reached this morning before the sun set for the winter, commented: “Clearly, the president’s mind is melting faster than our ice sheet.”

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen tried to strike a diplomatic note, saying: “May God deliver us from this delusional maniac.”

These comments did not stop the president taking a victory lap before an enthusiastic audience at a campaign-style rally in West Virginia.

A partial transcript of the president’s remarks follows:

Friends, trust me, you’re just going to love Greenland. I’ve been there, many times. I was there on 9/11, trying to stop the planes. It’s all true, not that you’d ever read it in the failing New York Times.

[Chorus of boos]

I’ve heard the critics on the socialist left. They say $15bn, that’s a lot of money that we could better spend sending hate mail to children in Israel. Well, I have a surprise for you. Guess how much this is going to cost the American taxpayer? The answer my friends – zero! Nothing! Nada! All costs will be paid for by tariffs on CHINESE dumplings! It’s true, not ONE CENT!

[Cheers and chants of “Not ONE CENT!]

The Green people – such fine, wonderful upstanding people. They’re all eager to become Americans – not like Democrats! And the country – so clean. Reykjavik, what a city. Not like Londonstan and Stockholmbad. No crime, no rats, no dwarf Islamist mayor! And don’t let that name confuse you, Greenland. The fact is, my friends, it’s not very Green. In fact, it’s white – very, very white.

[Cheers]

Whiter than white! Green is the new white!

[More cheers and chants of “Green is the new white!”]

And what a land mass! It’s the world’s biggest island, my friends! I bet you didn’t know that – larger than Australia and India put together! And we won’t need to build a wall there. Those waters are cold.

 [Laughter and applause]

People are calling it the greatest deal in American history – maybe all of history. People are saying that only Trump could have made this deal. Maybe so, I don’t know. I guess it’s true, if everyone is saying it, I mean, I suppose it’s true. All I know is the Dutch paid, what, 60 guilders for Manhattan? I could have gotten it for 30 with Staten Island thrown in.”

[Laughter and chants of MAGA! MAGA!]

And the Louisiana purchase? Napoleon fleeced Jefferson! 512 million acres for $15m? It sounds like a great deal, but I could have done better, I could have done better. Could have got Texas, too, for not another penny.

Now there is one deal I feel bad about. Alaska. Folks, I hate to say it, but we kind of stole it from the Russians. They needed our dollars back in 1867 so we got a lot of land for what – two cents on the acre. That’s not a deal my friends, that’s robbery. Now you know I’m a good guy, a great guy – [wild cheers] – and frankly that deal troubles me. It does. So today, I called my friend Vladimir Putin and said, ‘Vlad, you can have it back. You can have Alaska back.’”

[Cheers and chants of “No collusion, no obstruction!”]

But I’ll tell you something. Crooked Hillary –

[chorus of boos]

– Crooked Hillary, know what she wanted to buy? Haiti! She wanted to make Haiti the 51st state in America. And then she wanted to buy Africa, too, the whole continent. So sad. And criminal.

[Chants of “Lock her up!]

But does the fake news report on this? No. All they say is Trump wants Greenland for its coal. Well, I say to you tonight, “Coal is not a four-letter word!”

[Cheers and chants of “Drill, baby, drill”]

And the fake news – they never stop. They say Trump hates the environment. Maybe they should look at my golf courses, the most beautiful courses in the world. I’m probably the biggest environmentalist ever. What did Obama do for Greenland’s penguins? Nothing! I’m going to change all that. I’m going to make sure that nothing happens to so much as one penguin in Greenland. Not one. No one loves the environment like Trump!

[Cheers and chants of “Penguins! Penguins!]

  

·         Nancy Pick is a writer based in western Massachusetts.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

purified

and then creeley dies and

then thompson,
and then someone decides that
rothko’s bones need to be
dug up and moved

first warm day of spring,

and the woman across the street
is standing topless in an
upstairs window

the hole in my back yard is

six feet deep and
ten across,
and it’s no small challenge
crucifying saviors

kill one

and two more spring up

change the station and

whatever song you find sucks
as much as the one you
left behind

nothing worth dying for,

but the man across the street
stands in his driveway
with a gun

laughs at the children when

they run away

isn’t there when his son jumps

the forty feet from the
bridge into the river, but it
probably wouldn’t have
made much of a difference
even if he was

the truth is easiest

when it costs you nothing

IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU'RE THE ASSHOLE THAT YOU ARE

THE FINE ART OF DYING LIKE A COWARD

FOR ALL SAVED

THE FAILURES OF THOSE WHO ACCUSE ME OF BEING A FAILURE

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BE A HERO, DOPE

SALT, RUST

sound of machinery trapped in
the cold amber silence


gears clotted with old blood


i spent too many years being
a husband sitting at home
sharpening knives


never owned a gun


never noticed who was
driving the car


watched it pull away w/ my wife,
                           my children,
and then i turned back to the
problem at hand


found the mask my father
had given me, and it was a
perfect fit


wore it whenever i fucked a
woman whose name i
wanted to forget


wore it until i
no longer knew who i was


felt too good to give up

ANGEL OF THIRST VS. THE ANGEL OF DUST

at the edge of some

surrealist landscape, all grey

fields and monotone sky and

                      blood red roses

late november and the

highway littered with bones

the crows grown fat

nothing to do with the gun

in your hand but kill

no one to tell you they

love you but your children

and your children are gone

the enemy is always

in your blind spot

is always creeping closer

how else to end this war

but with the slaughter

of those who are wrong?

MR & MRS ORPHANMAKER, AT YOUR SERVICE

Get the baby's parents murdered, then 

use the baby as a photo-op prop.  

You can see why she loves him.....

KING SHIT OFFERS YOU PEACE IN OUR TIME

LUNG GAS

POEM FOR THE FALSE KING, WHO LOVES ONLY THE FALSE KING

THE GOLDEN PALACE OF CHEMICAL PLEASURES

POLITICS ARE FOR ASSHOLES

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THE ART OF BEING NOWHERE

BURYING EACH OF HER CHILDREN

DELICIOUS HOT SCHMOES

@

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THE ONCE AND FUTURE PAST

ALIVE AND WELL IN THE EMPIRE OF DREAMS