The Age of Ignorance

In order to get there
go out and return
or haven't you been there?
Up and up, to the shade
and forest, and down
again because to die there.
Have not all rules
been ignored then
and that is ignorance?
To each his own
they say and that is
our noble polytheism.
Sending these coupons
through the mail
to you, to your table.
Have not the laureates
culled their letters
for the laws they lived by?

Ode to Higgin's Hill

The stuff of loosed

children where the dead dogs

we remember
keep our secrets,

up in the summer

in the rains

and lightning,

we swam to swim

and walked there,

walked our bikes 

up the hill, 

rode them down

between six and supper.

A friend sent me a message yesterday....so few have done that.  I do know exactly how many and which ones and could have predicted that from the beginning, when I first met them.  It's funny how just a little message can make a difference to a person.

My response opened the flood gate. I'd been searching for the right word to convey my feelings...not to others but to my self.  And it came:

My heart is breaking. It is breaking in ways I didn't know were possible. It hurts to feel one's heart breaking. A child dying. A marriage dissolving. A house burning. The loss of a leg, an arm.

Nothing matters anymore. None of it. Gold, silver, bank accounts. Food, warmth, sunlight.

My heart is breaking but what is even more important:

I always knew it would. I tried to sever things that would minimize the damage. To cut them off before the bleeding.

What About Mars?

No more problems says the package
the cure came in, no more
warning labels and the price tag
no longer legible. It began
with flashy children and fast cars
then people started talking
about the leftover stuff
after the move out,
wondered what would happen
to the crystal ball and Japanese flag.
Where to put Mars now?
Whose house next?

[48.16] Say to those of the dwellers of the desert who were left behind: You shall soon be invited (to fight) against a people possessing mighty prowess; you will fight against them until they submit; then if you obey, Allah will grant you a good reward; and if you turn back as you turned back before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.- From the "Victory" in the Glorious Quran

"Mountains may move from their position, but you should not move from yours. Grit your teeth. Lend to Allah your head (in fighting for Allah, give yourself to Allah). Plant your feet firmly on the ground. Have your eye on the remotest foe and close your eyes (to their numerical majority). And keep sure that succour is but from Allah, the Glorified." Sermon #11 Nahjul al Balagha, Ali ibn Abu Taleb, Chief of the Believers. THERE IS NO EXIT RAMP.

[8.30] And when those who disbelieved devised plans against you that they might confine you or slay you or drive you away; and they devised plans and Allah too had arranged a plan; and Allah is the best of planners. -From "The Accessions" IOW, translates to "The escalation ladder" in the Glorious Quran.

 Laith Marouf on the ground in Lebanon, the criminal entity using 'Al Qaeda' proxies to fight their 'war'.

https://www.youtube.com/live/9_5mFbhglRE?si=bf0FZEJJfsglWPxQ

As the World Turns, faster and faster

In Lebanon, all hell is breaking loose. In the south, the "IOF" has used Humvee vehicles, apparently flaunting the idea that they don't even need to use the mighty Merkhava anymore. 

There have been at least a dozen and according to some reports, over 20 Merkhavas either disabled or totally destroyed and put out of commission in this latest criminal attack against the sovereign nation of Lebanon. It is important to note that one of the primary reasons the "IOF" Zionist Regime could not and did not remain inside of Lebanon after the 2006 illegal "incursion" was due to their own foolishness. 

In 2006, the criminal "Zionist" regime bombed every bridge in Lebanon save for the major arteries and this left them bogged down and at the mercy of the liberation front in the south and cost them numerous casualties and deaths. As well, the size and maneuverability of the Merkhava did not allow for ease of traversing the zigzaging jungle of roads in and out of thousands of villages in the south. 

The growth and spread of the villages in the south has created an unending carpet of residential enclaves and a significant change in the battlefield landscape that the "Zionist" criminal regime faces. Twenty years ago, there were vast expanses of undeveloped farmland that did not provide much cover for either the Resistance Army or the "IOF" itself. Not anymore.

In this newest incarnation of Zionist land theft, genocide and elimination of Lebanese culture, the "IOF" is employing the use of Humvees however, what several videos reveal is the seeming abandonment of these vehicles out in the open. In these videos produced by the Resistance army of the south, there is a notable absence of actual crininal invaders. Of course, the "Zionist Regime" never reports the results of numerous assaults resulting in 'troop' injuries or deaths and one can apply a factor of double to most statistics reported by "Israeli" news services, probably even greater than that.

In other developments, the Lebanese parliment continues to attempt to serve it's "ZioUs" master and act treasonously against the Lebanese people. It is difficult to measure how this will end. I have noted that there was a large influx of media stories in the English version of the Lebanese News services indicating a desperate attempt to control the 'local narrative" or at least, the one I am privy to as a non Arabic literate reader. My belief is that the people of Lebanon are not going to sit idly by while certain members of their parliment allow South Lebanon to be bartered off in exchange for ....nothing. A fistful of dollars in the pocket of a corrupt parliment member (or two or ten).

The Lebanese parliment is accused of abandoning the country, having relieved the army of any HZB leaning leadership and is using it as a personal extension of their own treasonous alliance to the "West", allowing it to be used as a tool of the failing, endless wars of the ZioUs Empire. The Lebanese parliment is creating a 'retreating force' and failing to protect the Christian villages that are interspersed with Muslim ones throughout the areas not already eradicated from the map by this criminal and evil and most of all, cowardly 'army'.  The UN as well, is about as useful as tits on a hog and have been attacked by the perpetually delusional ZioUs forces. Indonesian forces were attacked and there is a complaint at the "UN", again, the same "Food for Oil" institution that hosted such luminaries as Kofi Annan who lined his pockets with the monetary instrument called starvation of indigenous people.

Word on the street has it however, that HZB is allowing this incursion to sink even deeper into what can only be described as a jungle of suburbs, neverending 'empty' homes anxiously waiting to trap the devils in their own hall of mirrors in the South. But that's just whispers. Or not.

 

In a shameful move, abandoning south Lebanon's Christians and putting them back into the hands of Israel, the Lebanese army has left Debl and is preparing to leave Rmeich and other towns

They are abandoned south Lebanon to set the stage for long term occupation

Notice how none of these M113 have their machine gun installed? This is what Israel allows and the U.S enables. We are not allowed to have real security, only submission

There were at least a dozen civilian martyrs throughout the south and all the way up to Khalde. Four journalists.

Gaza, here we come.  

Or not.

March 29, 0815

Two critical attacks during early morning on Zionist Regime assets in West Asia:

1)Saudi AWACS plane(s) targeted.
 

2)️ ‌Another airstrike on Iran’s Isfahan University of Technology

Public Relations of Isfahan University of Technology:

— Around 2 PM on the 29th of March, Isfahan University of Technology was targeted for the second time by a brutal airstrike from Israeli-American aggressors.

— According to initial reports, this attack, which targeted one of the university's research institutes, caused damage to several other buildings and resulted in minor injuries to 4 university staff members.l

3)️ Israeli media: Initial reports of secondary explosions at (one of) the targeted factories in Be’er Sheva. 

This is in response to Zionist regime targeting chemical plants in Iran. The factory is in the southern desert and responsible for processing ammonia, which is highly flammable/explosive.

Other factories in the Be'er She'va region targeted by IRGC:

️ Ne'ot Hovav (Hebrew: נאות חובב, lit. 'Abodes of Hovav'), formerly Ramat Hovav, is an industrial zone in southern occupied Palestine and the site of Israel's main hazardous waste disposal facility. Ramat Hovav Industrial Zone is the locus of 19 chemical factories, including Makhteshim Agan, a pesticide plant; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, a pharmaceuticals plant; Israel Chemicals, a bromine plant.

One of several chemical factories of the Zionist regime in Be'eer She'va burning/toxic:

️ Ne'ot Hovav (Hebrew: נאות חובב, lit. 'Abodes of Hovav'), formerly Ramat Hovav, is an industrial zone in southern occupied Palestine and the site of Israel's main hazardous waste disposal facility. Ramat Hovav Industrial Zone is the locus of 19 chemical factories, including Makhteshim Agan, a pesticide plant; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, a pharmaceuticals plant; Israel Chemicals, a bromine plant.

4)CNN reports (for what it is worth) high level talks in Pakistan.

-In other developments, the UAE (the United Front of Installed Dictators in the Gulf) have seized $580 Billion in Iranian assets declaring they were lied to about Iran's goals in the war.  Seriously?  I mean, seriously?  These louts are truly a bag of hammers. They have also revoked "Golden Visas" which guaranteed 99 year residency to Iranians hoping to lap up the luxury of the Khaleeg Gold Rush...well. This is important...some do not realize that Iran does have significant investment in the Gulf region...but I'm sure they realized that owning one's own country is a hell of a lot more valuable than the denatured US currency and a Family Deluxe Fast Pass to the Disneyland of the Bedouin Empire.  I mean, come on now.  

-The Haman Plan document leaked...it is important to understand who Haman was....contrary to what the story of Haman is about according to these audacious liars, Haman was actually the Architect to the Pharoah.  Not an Iranian killing machine i.e. a Hebrew named Mordechai blah blah blah.  Delusional and believing their own made up Biblical tales at this point.  Anyway, very worth reading and utterly in denial that they started this whole fiasco.  With lies. To keep two bloody dictators (Trump/Bibi) out of jail, both guilty of attempting yet another EthnoSuperState and landing themselves firmly in Imperial Over-reach territory.  Did neither of them read Sailing to Byzantium?  

The United States and Israel are pursuing the implementation of an anti-Iran plan (Haman).

Due to a U.S. miscalculation over Iran's initial response to the Feb 28 attack and the war's unexpected prolongation, Israel has proposed coordinated combined operations to be carried out on the morning of March 28, marking one month of the conflict.

This plan has faced some opposition within U.S. decision-making circles; however, its core elements have reached consensus, as discussed in a briefing held for several members of Congress two days ago.

This plan, named "Haman" after the famous Iranian-killing story of Esther and Mordechai, emphasizes decapitating Iran's leadership and insists on a swift and lightning-fast end to the war.

U.S. 10-day delay on warning Iran's power plants may reflect hesitation, time needed to finalize the plan, or a deception to strike at zero hour on March 28.

Sections of this document, obtained through informed sources and provided to Iran Intel Watch, are presented below.

The United States will carry out military actions against Iran during the period of March 27-30, 2026:

1. 4,000 U.S. troops, along with fighters affiliated with Syrian takfiri groups, have been deployed in Azerbaijan. On March 25, 20 drones entered Iran's border areas to conduct reconnaissance and prepare for the attack.

2. 2,500 U.S. troops are stationed in Bahrain and 2,500 in Pakistan. Their plan is to advance by land, capture and isolate the Chabahar region from Iran, and continue toward central provinces—likely Yazd— and seize the missile city.

3. Takfiri forces, Kurdish terrorist groups, and 2,000 U.S. troops are deployed in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

4. The U.S. will begin its attack by striking power infrastructure in southern Iran and Tehran, then destroy the Bushehr nuclear plant, disrupting high-level decision-making and forcing evacuations nearby. In this context, necessary warnings have been issued for the withdrawal of Russian forces, and in the days before March 28, the power plant's sea access has been completely blocked by bombing to prevent contamination. Through this, the Americans aim to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and will deploy their forces on other islands—likely Khark Island.

5. U.S. forces will conduct heliborne operations using airstrips at army bases in Bandar Abbas, Kermanshah, Urmia, Tabriz, and Bushehr. Prior to the landings, surrounding areas will be heavily bombed to fully eliminate Iranian forces waiting for the Americans.

6. 211 Ukrainian drone pilots will block Iranian defenders, while suicide drones disrupt Iran's defenses. Reports of explosive cans in Fars suggest they were used to equip FPV drones, not as mines.

7. If Iran retaliates and damages regional or Israeli infrastructure, the U.S. may use unconventional weapons on Natanz and Fordow. Analysts link this to the White House's recent "chessboard" image.

So far, what is certain is that Iran's actions, outside conventional rules, have been exercises and preparations to counter scenarios, forcing the U.S. to admit military failure and resort to measures with no military gain. We should watch Iran's plans to confront this scheme.

That's all I can handle for now. There's just too much to collect.  I must nurse my spirit to normal levels with a bit of gardening. Because everyone should do that every day, several times a day.

Peace

You can tune into Mahmoud's channel...he has multiple updates daily and is excellent at verifying sources:

Mahmoud Od

Mehdi Hassan House Arab Opinion via TLGRM

 🇮🇷Mehdi Hasan asked Iran’s FM spokesman about Amnesty International accusing the Iranian government of "massacres" of Iranian “protesters”

Mehdi Hasan: "Why should we believe your government and not Amnesty?"

Here what you need to know about Mehdi Hasan: 

Mehdi Hasan spent years crusading for regime change from Syria to China based on phony State Dept human rights reports that were easily debunked.

He zealously celebrated the Al Qaeda takeover of Syria, and has kept quiet ever since about Israeli troops occupying the country while prisons full of ISIS fighters were emptied along Iran's borders.

Mehdi is now hyping a bunk regime change narrative to discredit Iran's leadership as they face down a campaign of state destruction imposed by Israel and the US. 

His source is Amnesty, the EU-backed NGO which legitimized the Kuwaiti incubator babies hoax that enabled the US to launch the First Gulf War on Iraq.

On January 8 and 9, Mossad-backed rioters murdered hundreds of police officers, guards and civilians across Iran, while burning down government buildings and mosques. The extensively documented regime change riots provided a bridge between the 12-day-war and the current assault on Iran, and form the blueprint for Israel's stalled plan to destabilize the country from within.

At the time, Amnesty described the rioters as "largely peaceful protesters," as though they were staging a lunch counter sit-in. Amnesty also held rallies in Europe throughout January which supported the toppling of Iran's government.

Mehdi confidently echoes Amnesty's deceptive language in order to browbeat his interview subject, presenting him as a criminal while his colleagues at Iran's Foreign Ministry face the threat of assassination by Israel.

With his deployment of yet another shabby regime change narrative, and his characteristic refusal to acknowledge any facts which might undercut his prepackaged argument, Mehdi has joined the US-Israeli information war against Iran. None of his virtue signaling about Palestine can deflect from the insidious role he's playing.

These desert dwellers as they are referred to in the Quran..."submitted to Islam but faith never entered their hearts."  A history of an obstinate love of wealth and luxury, inviting DJT into their chambers to serve him tea in cups lined with his favorite color: gold. All the while, DJT and Co. are slaughtering Sunni Palestinians by the thousands and Shia Muslims are giving their lives and property to stop the carnage.

The predictions of their manifestation would be of "competing in the building of tall buildings."  Mere bedouin balling. Really balling.

These bases were never going to protect them. They were outposts to be called into use once the Shia were subdued.  And that is entirely possible that the Shia crescent will fall to this truly evil regime led by false Jews who call themselves Jews so they can spread their devil's brew throughout the last remnant in the world of "Monotheism".  They are all athiests, enemies of Allah and of each other.

Allah tells many stories in the Quran. It's misleading in a sense...one is lulled into the perception of Fairy Tales, "tales of the ancients". Go look though...the tales of the ancients are in the record. You pay good money to walk among the ruins. And you deny, deny, deny. Ok, have it your way.

You must ask yourself however why these "Kings" in the house of Al Saud allowed a military installation to be named Al Kharj? It translates to "the hidden ones".

Al Kharj Attack

You have been warned, over and over and over. This isn't your first rodeo. This is your last one.

Ron Paul

Lebanese Army evacuate/abandon resistance

Zionist Occupier Threatens Villages Currently destroying homes, bridges, schools, existing hospitals.

Interview

 🇧🇭 One of the roads in Bahrain was blocked and tires were set on fire in protest against the murder of the young man, Sayed Mohammed Al-Musawi, by the Bahraini regime, which is closely aligned with the Israeli entity.

This in response to an uprising on the small island that serves as the 'playground' for the rich Saudis.  Footage below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e1hRivh2kPX4UJCmdlcJolT8OsW5HD00/view?usp=drive_link

Interview with HZB official, censored and derived from sourced material via Trench. Link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u93rcLVY1ZX6LD_WOVdFYnch__2nHu4g/view?usp=sharing

 Allah, please give me a little bit of wisdom from your wisdom,

a share of the water from your seas, a piece of the sky

from your spaces. Give me as much as I can hold of grace 

from your grace, honesty from your truth, bravery

from your power. Extend to me your pardon

for the property I've stolen from your ownership,

the deed to my heart is yours, the wealth

in which I graze belongs not to me

and for this, a small dua, in this 

empty hand I hold.

Ode to Upchurch

"I like my poems. They’re
as good as rocks." - Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses

Bud had all boys
across from Whitehead's
furniture store where Pegasus
delivered lightning
when we stopped 
to fuel the Impala.
I didn't know then what I know now,
and we trusted all those boys of his
not to jerk us around.
We shoulda asked Juanita.
Dad clutched and signed
a slip and moved on,
drunk or not, you all moved on
lunging left and right
pulling out and pulling in
to the Hitching Post
next door with a real one
right out front.
Patio orange for the kids,
blood and bar towels for the rest.
All those ponies and Medusa
riding shotgun, near the wheel.

 Here in the prime magnetic moment

so few and so deliberate, I won't say

I told you so but I told you so.

Yes, the secrets were secrets not

kept that way with purpose

but by definition of the secret itself,

out of our hands, completely out of our hands.

There is no forgiveness from the one

who has not the power to forgive.

There is no reward from the one

who has no power to render promises.

The magnetic moment shall pass again

and again until it freezes up and folds

into the homochirality of the records.

Time and the axis of time spins

on the axis of non time.

Everything

 Given enough time there'd be one each of everything

to fashion into a line.

Detail from the Patron Saint Llorona Holding the 12,000 Year Clock-figure 2b

Naco was so beautiful at dusk last night....a little diamond choker beneath one enormous chinchilla collar made of cold steam. Worthy of a Saks Fifth Avenue insert yet all I keep thinking of are the particles the mammoth left behind, the hide and tusk cells still in the air. This mammoth has been after me since I was a child. Out near the old tailings pond, opposite the El Rancho murals and coin op horses...was she there on that broad Savannah, did she run up the old canyon chasing her child before falling under a hail of Clovis projectiles? Certain of finishing my mother's last thoughts as I sat on the front seat in the old Chevy in '72 and she pointed and said, "out there!" What if all those Border Patrol agents just started digging? We'd have a trench instead of a wall and rains like this would form a moat. How big is this castle after all? This. This is how Allah tells time. This is the over-and- over buried in the once-again.

An Easy Riff

Along with JFK which, although I was only just past my first birthday, I do remember...there's the Bob Cranes, the Don Bolles and now, the Rob Reiner's I remember.

Not because of their fame or importance
to me but because of the violence.
The carnage of Sabra and Shatilla,
the blue faced bodies of Halabja,
Elie Hobeika before he reached
the Hague, the car that lodged
above the mezzenine
of the St. George Hotel, warnings
one and all, blatant and yet
some still blame the religions
when in truth, it is their absence.

Fiction Section

"Just now the reader of the letter

Tells of the writer's swift descent

fron wealth to want."

- Edgar Lee Masters, Arabel

When the only benefit inverts,

the thrift store is lending

jewelry and pots and pans and books,

the still dead lie freezing in December

a stone's throw away in plots

called Memory Gardens

amok wid weeds and dreadfully faded

artificial flowers, broken dollarstore vases,

the pattern of shoes and always,

one man standing too far away

to see who he is, the books

were merely old gossip

and seldom worth the paper,

on the so-what number of pages.

Generation 

Of all the greens in the world

under gas soaked walls

I can still gather the smell

of ramshackle, holed up in there

nose close to the previous generation

buried down by the dairy,

our mother

sat us in the corner for spitting.

Of all the greens 

gunboat to glade, an ormolu

one only sees in swamps,

as if a whole village built itself

of nothing but grass and chaw,

tucked as it were into the gullet,

   "Although found in good authors, ... is retained, 

             in this country as in England, only by the illiterate." 

saved for later, for the infinite 

scrape of dawn bird and siren,

and nothing more than grease.

Of all the greens to spachtel a room

they chose that one, the color of hospitals.

We had no pantry or closet nor guests

and painted our shoes, yes

saved our lids and jars,

spent our pennies,

worshipped our Gods, and you?

Delusion 

Talking to my children this morning, the children that have seen three invasions, three escapes, three traumas.....well none of that can compare to this in Gaza. No but when it comes to tasting that bitter boneless cake we know exactly about the texture and flavor. Even Israel knows it well and have it as a creed: Never Again. The one thing I hear often on the few newscasts that I pay attention to, so accustomed I've become to this ongoing problem that appears to descend from the battles of brutal Assyrian kings...I notice when they ask, "who is going to rule Gaza after this is over?" I don't bother answering because afterall, it's a script and a TV screen. I have spent way too much time shouting at those actors who go home to their lakeside properties in windy cities with mass transit, arriving home to martinis and fettucine. Who are they to ask questions when it is the case that they work in front of butcher shops for the butcher selling knives? Why are they even asking? Do they expect a response or are they scheduled to give one? It is no secret, I have the answer. Are they trying to pry it out of me? They know I know the answer, they stare at me all day feigning ignorance. Memory. Memory is going to rule Gaza. It always has.

The oddest thing happened yesterday. I was receiving a new dresser so had to get ready...reorganize all those drawers that had become repositories of history, evidence of past poetry readings, my three Nikons (I'm having no memory of ever obtaining the second two, wth?)....and I came upon this. Only a vague memory of picking it up somewhere in town. Apparently from 2011.

In Memoriam

Yea, I miss those days alright

born bright and white and right

in the right place and with red hair.

I miss those days alright

nothing fit but it was new and blue

shoes run faster than white.

Down past the graveyard

you can see your zombies now

not so dead looking anymore is they.

All that mess is so far away

you'd say as you hee'd and haw'd'

drinking your poison until you chucked.

Days they come to an end and nights

not so short with the walking dead

pestering and pawing at your neck.

Born white and bright and right

did you see that guy fall yet

did you see how everyone ran?

It was like they'd seen a ghost!

He was already on an aeroplane

headed over to the Great Salt Lake

which isn't so great, but it is long.

Bet those graverobbers down in Provo

shuffled tickets like their life

depended on it, hob knockers all of them.

Bet that he got to Phoenix 

at half past three and layed low,

shaved and ordered in, rested up.

They all head to the Bob Crane

memorial expressway that hits

the 10 off of Glendale, without exception.

Don Bolles knew. I knew. You knew.

And here we are watching

Huntley-Brinkley count the dead.