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Judge, 2007, Libellum and Charta, New York and Milano

Section 1 from poem "Judge"


This is not necessarily the case:
 people have spent years preparing for Armageddon
For a variety of genuine reasons:
But more than that—
ends up being a bit
player in his own story
It as the potential
Robert C. Bork
with scathing attacks
Bork so shook Mr. Specter’s standing
no matter what headaches
the case against Karl Rove
Part of the problem
Republicans took note
Brownback’s words reflected

White house commando
A string of recent attacks
And the guerillas are choosing
scene of one of the four
Iraqi cities have seen a surge
Dick Cheney who is moonlighting
His former secretary of state
For all that, it is not clear
John Kerry is a waffler
In the church of birds
The man was killed aboard
shot to death at point-blank range
did not give further details
attacks and responses

Ms. Rice placed at least equal weight
When a Palestinian journalist
death toll rises to at least 85
Journalist jailed for over a year in Kabul
He converted to Islam to gain acceptance
They all love Bush, and they all say
Osama Bin Laden is Bush’s friend
the funeral procession for an imam
and his two brothers at pulling
all sides into full-blown conflict
The Department of Defense has
identified 1.766 American service
members who have died since the
start of the Iraq war
A communiqué released Friday
The Humvee has been destroyed
with an “explosive package”
kidnapping the top Algerian diplomat
gunmen snatched Ali Belaroussi in Mansour
masked assassins with smart PR

The unsigned talking points
Gonzales has earned plaudits
But a set of talking points
to mine for leads
concerns that classified information
stopped and questioned
You’re in big trouble
American terrorist enemy combatant
7-by-8-foot air-conditioned cell
piece of evidence against him
kneeling with the timers
a voracious consumer of intelligence
Cheney suggesting that Niger
had agreed to yellowcake uranium
Intrigued, had long believed
asked his briefer for C.I.A.’s analysis
the African uranium trade
Mr. Wilson’s wife, working at
Langley, Va., headquarters of
mass destruction note a superior
band’s qualifications
The blasé attitude Scott McClellan
Mr. Fleischer’s replacement as
Now, I can tell you, Ms. Rice if the C.I.A.

Take this out of the speech
The goals were clear:
shield the president from responsibility
distance vice president from
special prosecutor

People milled through the streets
and pubs and Stockwell
I think it’s disgusting that they had to shoot him
T-shirt with what appears to have
been a palm tree design on the front
ground section of the Hammersmith
Shepherd’s Bush station
Subway riders filled up a train in London yesterday
The police shot the man five times at point-blank range
Under a shoot-to-kill order
backpack containing a bomb
with the words “Fitness First”
Scotland Yard now believed it
Increasingly likely that Thursday’s attempted attacks
kindled uncertainty among Muslims
anxiety of a city under siege
The police trailed a man, South Asian in appearance
from a house in Stockwell
clad in bulky clothes on a warm summer day
He vaulted over a turnstile into a train
plainclothes policeman did not obey orders
shouted man stumbled onto train:
I looked at his face he looked left and right
basically like a cornered rabbit, a cornered fox
He looked absolutely petrified, then he sort of tripped
he half tripped and was half pushed to the floor
and the policeman nearest to me at the black
automatic pistol in his left hand
held it down to the guy and unloaded five
shots into him

Blasts in Egypt kill at least 36 at Sinai resort
Many of them were naked

many of them believed to be Egyptians
sitting at a coffee shop
Jane Sullivan Roberts, an Irish Catholic lawyer
from the Bronx whose pro bono work for
Feminists for life assuming he not only
shares her views is politically risky
served on board
Rice meets Sharon at his ranch, then goes
to Beirut her motorcade ripped through
Rice’s visit in Beirut, a bomb exploded
in a Christian neighborhood
wealthy Moroccan Jewish philanthropists

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