A Practical Appraisal of Palestinian Violence – Steve Salaita
— Read on stevesalaita.com/a-practical-appraisal-of-palestinian-violence/

a late daughtering. 
a late offering to didi. 
didi being short for diana. 
a statue the goddess or the man who knew 
i fixed a bead on the containment of all human emotions. slowly tried to breathe but found every efforts cut short cut dreams cut grasses savory lights beamed lights in from above the headlamps and flashlight and hedonists came all at once and we thought it was a coincidence, don’t blame me i was young and trusting, don’t blame me i am still too trusting too young it seems to know 
how to fight this thing effectively. 

my mother 
                   is learning to play
all the things she couldn’t play 

my mother
                  is learning to say
all the things she couldn’t say 

and i 
         am witness 
to this glorious glorious woman 

whatever we make 
we make together 

       i am witness 

While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed.
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An excerpt from Lucinda Williams’s memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” about being in love with the poet Frank Stanford, and about his suicide.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-poet-who-became-my-muse