Thursday, November 20, 2025

A Room of My Own: Trump-Raged World Tanka

Trump Empire, Inc, LXII:

alone, putting
the Trump-raged world on mute
I take a sip
of morning black coffee
and listen to the snowfall


FYI: This is a sequel to the following poem:

One Year On

A notice pinned to the community library’s message board: The Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Section has been moved to Current Affairs.

Apocalypse Now
spine bent, margins yellowed …
on its last page
Trump 2028
inked in a shaking hand


(FYI: The Independent, Nov. 5 2025Eric Trump doesn’t rule out dad running for president again in 2028
President’s son also hints he would consider mounting a campaign himself ‘if there was no other choice and it got so bad that you had to do it’)


Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCLII: "'ceasefire' strikes"

heavenward
                    rising
fireballs
               fireballs
                              falling
heavenward


FYI: This could be read as a sequel to the following:

War Is Peace

pyramid
after pyramid of rubble ...
again "ceasefire" strikes

fireball by fireball ...
the length
of a Gazan night

smoky twilight
a cry sinks into the sound
of a gunshot

skeletal houses
these layers of silence
upon silence


Chen-ou Liu


Haaretz, Nov. 19 2025Israeli Strikes Across Gaza Kill 28, Including Women and Children, Officials Say

And Socialist Project, Oct. 28, 2025The Illusion of a Ceasefire: Gaza Still Under Continuous Genocide

Despite the announcement of a deal between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Israeli regime, the latter continues to violate the ceasefire provisions. The world treats the ceasefire as if the genocide has ended, but the reality on the ground tells a different story: Gaza is in ruins; and starvation, displacement, and death continue as deliberate tools of genocide. This so-called ceasefire exists only in rhetoric; genocide continues while diplomatic actors debate who allegedly broke the deal.


Added:

childhood river's edge
a gray-haired man 
jumps into himself

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