A Room of My Own: CeaseFire Now Haiku

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCIII: "ceasefire now"

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waveafterwaveofprotesters

chanting CeaseFire Now

FYI: Haaretz, September 2: Israel's Blood-soaked Cabinet Won't Stop Unless Sunday's Powerful Protests Continue

Much like the hours following October 7, it is increasingly clear that Netanyahu is completely dysfunctional, and that his personal and political survival is a thousand times more important than the lives of the hostages.

Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCIV: "hostages"

hand-drawn portraits 

of six hostages dripping blood ...

Crime Minister cutout

FYI: Each passing day is like a Russian roulette that Netanyahu is playing.

-- Einav Zangauker, father of a hostage

Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, XCV: "Hostage Square"

Hostage Square

row upon row of coffins draped

with Stars of David

Added: Game Show, 2024, LXIV

317 I's

in one single rally speech ...

a MAGA pin

on this young man's breast pocket

stained with oil paint

Added: Game Show, 2024, LXV

an alley stray barking 

at its own echo ...

chants from afar of USA!

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I open the window

to let out a summer fly ...

the silence falls

Added:

a silhouette

in the backstreet alley

this sultry night

her hand touches me there

where manhood once was

Added: This Brave New World, CXVI

The same old same old every day

in the school hallway

scream after scream cut off

by gunshots ...

thoughts and prayers, enough's enough

fade in the gathering dark

Make America 

[Greatly] Sane Again ...

my ex-GOP friend

wipes his wrinkled eyes 

between spasms of laughter

FYI: BBC News, September 5: How many US mass shootings have there been in 2024?

Mass shootings on the rise

There have been more than 385 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed. Their figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places.

For each of the last four years there have been more than 600 mass shootings - almost two a day on average.