Thanksgiving Jumbo Jet
If time remains before
we knowingly are to be
gobbled by calamity
(when all left to do
is to submit to that
hush), eyes entangle
in manhandling hunt
for some reason beyond
Now what’ll we do?—
perhaps into I must
see your bald despair
to soften the edge of mine.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right).