Charles Bernstein

Pot Calls Kettle Black:
Talk Back!

Trump’s
Christian white
suprematist
gang’s
attacking
universities
for their
diversities
& usin’
antisemitism
as ruse
to nuke
what’s been
mostly
not so bad
for the Jews.
Here’s the deal:
Nazi
salutes to
fascist factions
just ain't kosher
in any fashion.

Stop the lie
of G.O.P. D.I.E. —
Discrimination Inequality Exclusion.

Come on home to D.E.I. —
Democracy Equality Imagination.

Uche Nduka

Weft

A broken man with a mic

looking like he might be unhoused

Messing it up nimbly

whatever you want it to be

space for statement that stands its ground

Murderous racism is neither

new nor old

Brutal tyranny isn't an ass

kicked down the street yet

The country betrayed you

before you betrayed the country

all bad things come

to an end

Sidetracks floor exhale

tiptoe into arabesque

gold tassels inconsolable stitches

Our ration of the cries

of flight and return

Why is that goddamn TV on

new blooms come with instigation

to riot in the midst of precarity

How ferocious the herd instinct grows

that blood-thirsty strategy

of political rascality

(not counting bribes and graft)

they shriek and think

they're caging the sun

Man at the beach bar

said Leave some brownies

out for me tonight

The grey sky always

hustled for food

it needed to grow some hair

Why don't you hang up

before the voicemail cuts you off

It's not all ghetto

whether it's three towers

or archaeoacoustics

Never Again Is Now

said the placard

their styles clashed harder

than their absurdities

that soup is vile

stop pretending you're a farmer

not to get too birdy about it

keep your immigrant safe

attendance calls for abundance

as if that is all there is

time is running out

and you're not doing a bloody video

freedom of speech is not

freedom to harass and lie

you hold history in the

palm of your left hand

to get a kick out of

navigating disjunctions

Are we just playing

Whac-a-Mole with our country

each underwater goes

into each underwater

Do gongs maybe now

find a place for wrongs

at some point what we're

carrying carries us

these browning fields

to counteract the bigotry

on display

hoping no one will

shoot you for your ideals

delicacy or brutality

petal or gunbarrel

to comfort or to terrify

or when they are livestreaming

the rape the assassination

the snake inside the toilet

all night the blues sink

into sombreros

she told me to rip

the ground apart

completely aghast at

this gaudy lineage

on the other side of

the archipelago

each sentence rethinks

a burning, a child's gaze

curve of plum

counter the drone

reskill the Catskills

zinnia in concrete

Igbo brew in its purple form

breakthru in awkwardness

honeysuckle and its

flammable ascension are

not primarily informational

remembrance is right now

a nosebleed in a darkroom