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“In the ‘operations’ to come, Israel will be able to carry on as it pleases, emboldened in the knowledge that it can do so with guaranteed impunity. It’s a new sequence of catastrophes waiting to happen.”

5 years later, look where we are.

“I wonder how much your average American, crossing into Tijuana at San Ysidro for cheap margaritas or Viagra or dental work, is aware of these back rooms. Do they feel the ominous hand of government, pressing down on the low ceilings, making all of it feel like the clean and law-abiding and gently menacing prelude to a prison?”

“Lighthead’s Guide to the Galaxy,” amazing. Last two poems + too

From the start, I had to pause (Chapter 1: Jojo “I like to think I know what death is”).

"Lives are lived in a temporal thickness" (78).

A collection that is perfect for cold, long winters..

“Porque la noche es siempre el mar de un sueño antiguo, / de un sueño hueco y frío en el que ya no queda / del mar sino los restos de un naufragio de olvidos.

Porque la noche arrastra en su baja marea / memorias angustiosas, temores congelados, / la sed de algo que, trémulos, apuramos un dia, / y la amargura de lo que ya no recordamos.”

Captivating.
"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all" (194).

en train de lire le voyage aux État-Unis