New Beginnings: The Haste Land

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The Burial Of The Dead

How in times of scrutiny and creed

We continue to solemnly

In pursuing, in presuming peoplehood  we broke

The heart of      ourgod is one

אלוהינו אחד

we are not  one     singularities– pluralized isolation

It is fair to be ignorant   it is fair to feed

ואכלנו וסבנו

Who is satisfied?

And who shall I say is calling?

This tokenized   this listened to?

If keffiyeh and dog tag –heretic martyr monster

הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה

שלנו שלנו      שלנו      שלנו

Our     our      our ourheart

In globalization   in education  my our

Is universal as the right to liberation

Liberation      self-determination

for each and any singular;

false wholes    earthly fixation on totality

Completion mythology

לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר

Yours to know  there is no finish  resources finite

Libratory gait  praying with feet  strive into elderly

Joint pain of injustice

What have we determined? Who constitutes self?

 

The fattest fear and the fist of fury–

CNN jump scared me to the streets

Naughty, not neutered– I feel hate

For his manness: The New Jew

Tan, cleaning the trough, breathing Aryan ideals

Into what would have been ancestry

To disprove  the rat  sun-dwelling and muscle swelling

Most of all the ashes of Auschwitz and Treblinka

The power source of a country. How can I convey

To the empty nightline operator

We rebuilt facile faith

Nationalism,

We caught a fever of our grief and colonization and

 

I thought we stopped praying to prophets as our purpose

When did we return to the Land of Ur?

I thought it was

Supposed to be

No one closer than the Baba Sali

So no Moses to throw a tantrum

Though Davidai does a good imitation 

As if outside the gates of Zion in gleaming glory

Moses penned his death narrative here– 

media chem-trail of vitriol will be what keeps you

From the land of milk and honey 

From the world to come

When the time comes we must melt the gold

Where will it spill

And how do you return to sacred heirlooms

When you have amassed a sum and you can not account for–

Is it because it hurt so bad 

To know all the succumbers 

Side chat, Snapchat,    IG story big block text, X

(Are we really calling it X these days and jerking Musk’s dream?)

Unreal city

 

Game of Chicken 

Regarding the:

Hate to… shame    share

Oink oink piggy piggy

No dining, no libraries, we will make your lives shitty 

 

WHO THE FUCK TO TRUST 

 

Who is the administrator who does 

Finally, rename it Hind’s Hall? 

 

I love you

Well-loved

Well of love

Loved welded 

To shield in the dreams of fears 

 

Old man 

Bow neck for

Caretaker

Profession not known for religion

If sponge baths–

If self-subjection to linoleum 

If this is not holy work

The gates are those of Gehinnom

 

Reasoned power  simulacrum governmental middle

And who rules the other plains–

Simulation storm, de-escalation, swarm 

A butterfly landed never to lift again–

Where can I find sacred stillness of narrative propulsion of

To end. 

To be done with this slit for fucks sake

Revolution in knowing what to live for 

Is not what one can fight for

The method of defeating cynicism is unknown to me 

At this juncture

Everything that 104th and Broadway came to mean

Bleak cigarette showers

Icons of our impermanent rot

The lady statue three blocks up, where West End peels off

 

The Fire Sermon

Spirituality needs tending to

Like a fire?

Like a Garden.

 

When to return

If to return

Why we return

Radical imperative to create

Peace      shapes   

Whose hands held the pen that codified a circle and four lines?

Border, boundary, the six-sided sealed gates

Meeting at the center to invent a symbol of ideal

 so    that

   We   might    make              material ly   interpersonal   cultural 

Two-state   final solution    destruction and survival go by the same name

  The virginal nerd: I will never choose violence

I will always choose resolution

Tent of feces– wreak, weak, what speak. Put your money where your mouth is. 

Fucked and bastardized?

Normative no more

Documentation     reenactment   interpretation

How is the cycle of history sealed?

War clarifies and distills   some murky

The cafe won’t save you this time

The wildly organized   militant many

 

Death By Water

Around the flat last supper gather the philosophers of freedom

Seder in the courtyard of tents,

social displacement as our approximate

Turning to tradition for order when contemporary is scrambled, yet again

Shades of grief and bruise… the right of the youth to refuse. 

Who is willing to be a red role? Who is willing to be a hospital chaplain?

Which holy being both?

 

I was on the phone …yeah

I think we are near the garden by now

Why are you singing

Because I am “hooked on a feeling

High on believing”

Offspring, fox sting

We have forgone and forgotten

Vocal elation declaration: the city sprung 

And bodega flower

 

This time I can. I camp. 

Is the Happy Meal dry? 

Ensure meals are mocking

You wouldn’t believe the going-ons of  

  rehab   camp   dorms

All the fucking  the dissociation  

 in these tent towns of homosocial solidarity,

Soldierly — stoic sexy reverence

For the dykes that risk arrest

next to all the rows of fascism 

are our fields of interpersonal anarchy smoke

the snare light

a flare is a light 

a snare is a drum

and I think you have a pretty nice bum

Are you serious? Are you joking?

flowers in Antarctica

(not gonna lie twin that shit was ass)

DO THEY BLOOM 

that’s a crazy silly 

nervous whoa whoa whoa

 what podcast paper I had to click the done button 

 pending emails  

the only things that are certain.   death and taxes 

Aliza Abusch-Magder is a recent graduate of Columbia University and currently lives in Tel Aviv where she is a Dorot fellow. She is a board member at the Jewish Woman’s Archive and a founding editorial board member of jGirls+ magazine. She is a proflific writer and a dedicated activist for joint liberation.

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