America
She killed negroes For fun And that tree still grows She never won A real war She hanged and burned alive The planetary whore And sent post cards To her bestial subhuman children With whom she copulates Rejects of mankind Planetary refuse She has so far escaped From justice She murdered Filipinos She is the […]
Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali
Ghazal BY AGHA SHAHID ALI Feel the patient’s heart Pounding—oh please, this once— —JAMES MERRILL I’ll do what I must if I’m bold in real time. A refugee, I’ll be paroled in real time. Cool evidence clawed off like shirts of hell-fire? A former existence untold in real time … The one you would […]