Good interview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M200...

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

"[it is impossible to speak about something

it is only possible to speak beside it"

- Juliana Spahr, "Responding"

"This path our people walked / one hundred two hundred / endless years / since the tall grass opened for us / and we breathed the incense that sun on prairie / offers to sky"
- "Peace Path", Heid E. Erdrich

"Rhythm and Blues is not / The downfall of a great civilization / And I expect you to / Realize / That the Temptations / have no connection with / The CIA"
- "A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails", Nikki Giovanni

There's always a moment when this one-line poem by Brian Turner seems entirely apposite.

NEW ZEALANDERS, A DEFINITION

Born here, buggered it up.

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"I want to wrap Old Government House / like Christo and Jean-Claude / I want to wrap Old Govt House / in pages of the Treaty"
- "Old Government House", Robert Sullivan

"Imagine you wake up / with a second chance: The blue jay / hawks his pretty wares / and the oak still stands, speading / glorious shade. If you don't look back, // the future never happens."
- "Dawn Revisited", Rita Dove

Dance little asshole dance
oh he gets elected, like a Calvinist
He says, I have these guts
Men, I have these guts.
- Alice Notley, 'Logic'

capitalism gnawing on its bone its bloody / blazing empty / bone its porny / plastic bone - Eileen Myles, 'The City'

Crazy to think that just 4 years ago Amanda Gorman read The Hill We Climb

Due tonight! I've just recovered from the Treaty one - which is the whole point, of coure. Listen to Jane Kelsey on RNZ on why there's mahi to do before midnight. Make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Am I joining Bluesky because of Zuckerberg's decision to stop fact checks on Facebook?
'Probably.'