Every Good Morning

The Greeks and Shakespeare understood madness. Look at how Regan and Cornwall go to work on Gloucester’s eyes in III, vii of King Lear or how the maenads tear apart Pentheus in Euripides’ The Bacchae. Real madness is rage that does not diminish, one that keeps finding sources of more rage. It becomes an instrument of perpetual motion made of flesh and endlessly producing malice. It strikes out at anyone […]

I have been writing poetry for five years and have achieved mediocrity — if that — a knowledge I can think of wryly, having come to an age when it is more and more inconvenient to tell myself lies. As if I were in a sinking raft in treacherous waters, I start looking around to see what I can salvage, what will help me swim and ward off sharks. Pretending […]

  It has come to the point where I cannot decode what I understand or maybe my last shreds of idealistic innocence and blindness are being swept away. Maybe I am just another damn fool sleeper awakening. Since Plymouth and Jamestown,  the US has always been a collection of accomplished killers and economic pirates. For proof of that spend just a few hours thumbing through the history of the Indian […]

I will leave aside his inexhaustible lying and his innate dishonesty, his arrogance, his vulgarity, racism, misogyny, and bone-deep ignorance and lack of curiosity, his destruction of the environment, his eternal corruption and thus his dishonorable use of the Presidency to enrich himself and his pals. I will leave aside his personal cruelty and his delight in punishment. What I chiefly loath about him is how he has spread his […]