Everything that involves more than one person (even if the other is imaginary) is political. Watering your lawn is political. So is eating a cheese pizza (BGH or non-BGH cheese?). But then blogs don't necessarily accomplish the same political ends as, say, calling all of your friends on the the telephone to get them to call Corporation X about abuses by one of their contractors. Or going door-to-door to generate support for a city commission candidate. And poetry? Well, poetry makes a lot of things happen, but not the same things as phone banking or canvassing, in my experience.
Oh - I nearly forgot - HAPPY X-MAN! - I mean, X-Box -
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LAX, April 1, 2025
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Just past customs--nothing to declare--
weeping, gnashing, keening
man on floor head and hair in hands
brown napkin set neatly beside him
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