Poet

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