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	Israel’s started

	bombing

	Gaza again

	I don’t know

	where to put it

	in relation

	to the ordinary

	sadness I feel

	about this expensive

	red kettle

	I bought that

	whistles and it arrived

	on Friday when

	I was in Columbus

	they even showed

	me a photograph

	of the little square

	package sitting

	under the mailboxes

	in my building

	I mean I have had

	packages stolen

	for years and I never

	got anything sent

	here of value

	but now my building

	is filled with

	shoppers who get boxes

	and bags of stuff

	so I joined in &

	I got robbed

	I’m back to           poet

	boiling water in a poet pot

	and I forget poet pot

	is not spelled

	poet

	poet

	pot pot pot

	but everything is Gaza

	is gone

	the sweet dog

	the new head

	a puppy is leaning

	against my naked

	arm we’re vulnerable

	here months ago

	was it months

	ago I screen shot

	photographs

	of Gaza going home

	first Trump wanted

	to sell it like a resort

	our president’s obscene

	a fucking idiot

	if I had a whistling

	pot I wouldn’t

	forget the water

	is boiling

	I wouldn’t burn

	everything

	would I

	must everything burn

	if Gaza burns

	must everything burn

	don’t they know

	do I know

	our president is obscene

	I sip my tea

	poet pot poet poet

	poet poet pot

	poet pot

	must everything burn

	O Canada he says

	O Canada is great

	O Canada can be a state

	our president is a fucking

	idiot

	must everything burn

	O Canada is great

	pot pot poet poet

	must everything burn

	poet poet pot poet

	pot poet pot

	must everything burn

	and Gaza’s going home

	poet pot poet pot

	pot pot pot pot POT

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