{"id":109070,"date":"2017-03-21T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=109070"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:23:56","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/21\/now\/","title":{"rendered":"Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_109080\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/above_the_clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109080\" class=\"wp-image-109080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/above_the_clouds.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/above_the_clouds.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/above_the_clouds-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/above_the_clouds-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/above_the_clouds-1024x614.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Arun Kulshreshtha<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>For Robert Silvers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And you could say we\u2019ve been living in clover<br \/>\nFrom Walt Whitman to Barack Obama.<br \/>\nNow a dictatorship of vicious spineless slimes<br \/>\nWe the people voted in has taken over.<br \/>\nOnce we\u2019d abolished slavery, we lived in clover,<br \/>\nFrom sea to shining sea, even in terrible times.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s over.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Look how the sunlight enters the bedroom and my dream.<br \/>\nLook how the radio alarm attacks me with an ax.<br \/>\nThe plane I have to catch departs at eight from JFK.<br \/>\nUnbuckled and at cruising altitude, we\u2019ll excrete a white contrail.<br \/>\nI have to be there two hours before<br \/>\nWe do. How beautiful the sky when you\u2019re below.<br \/>\nThe Russian ambassador to Turkey was gunned down<\/p>\n<p>Giving a friendship speech at an art gallery in Ankara<br \/>\nBy a Turkish Islamic zealot<br \/>\nPointing one finger upward and saying God is great.<br \/>\n<em>Do not forget Aleppo!<\/em> <em>Do not forget Syria!<\/em> he shouts,<br \/>\nReferring to the horror and the thousands wretchedly dead,<br \/>\nThe little children, from Russian aerial bombing.<br \/>\nRussia is red and red the blood the ambassador bled.<\/p>\n<p>The body on the floor<br \/>\nIs the late ambassa door.<br \/>\nYou step over him to your study window holding a loaded gun<br \/>\nTo your head and jump<br \/>\nOut to your death into the arms of Donald Trump.<br \/>\nPigeons have painted the ledge outside the window white.<br \/>\nNow the day is over and it is time to say good night.<\/p>\n<p>I hear the pillow hissing<em> auf wiedersehen.<br \/>\n<\/em>I stumble out of bed and start sleepwalking.<br \/>\nWWW, White Western World, stand on your feet to greet, still asleep,<br \/>\nThe arrival of the bride made of daylight all dressed in white.<br \/>\nOutbursts of pigeons explode white<br \/>\nAs light in whorls of flight in the wonderful sunlight,<br \/>\nThen settle on cooing ledges and shit white.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trumpeting the most dazzling imitation<br \/>\nDiamond ring you\u2019ll ever see,<br \/>\nSet by the expat genius jeweler JAR in Paris,<br \/>\nWhom nothing ostentatious can embarrass,<br \/>\nTo celebrate the catastrophe of America, the American catastrophe.<br \/>\nThe only possession of mine<br \/>\nGod will want to grab<\/p>\n<p>Is on my pinkie<br \/>\nWhen I\u2019m laid out naked on the slab,<br \/>\nAnd here comes God\u2014who\u2019s of course a she\u2014<br \/>\nWho removes the ring,<br \/>\nAnd slides my corpse<br \/>\nFor cremation<br \/>\nInto her big hot thing.<\/p>\n<p>There was a very rich<br \/>\nLady who lived on Liberty Island,<br \/>\nWho lied to herself and the world like Donald Trump.<br \/>\nHer druggy daughter, her only child,<br \/>\nWhose memory she liked to weep over and about whom she lied,<br \/>\nHad lived and died years before, and apparently the mother<br \/>\nHad behaved horribly when the daughter badly needed her.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was arrogant.<br \/>\nPeople loved her.<br \/>\nHer life was luxurious. People like that.<br \/>\nThere was an old<br \/>\nWoman who lived in a shoe.<br \/>\nHer fantasy was that she and her daughter<br \/>\nHad been fantastic together.<\/p>\n<p>A person who smokes cigarettes these days,<br \/>\nAlbeit only secretly,<br \/>\nA woman who smokes but hides it so no one sees,<br \/>\nAnd is careful about how she smells, no stink, no stain, no pain,<br \/>\nNow it begins to rain<br \/>\nIn her lungs, these days when you\u2019re not permitted to smoke anywhere inside<br \/>\nA public place, even if she\u2019s elegant, is ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>Give the poor bitch a break.<br \/>\nBe kind to poor inhuman us.<br \/>\nAren\u2019t we all a bit like her and at least a little fake?<br \/>\nAnd wasn\u2019t America often quite generous?<br \/>\nIn fact, my understanding is the Western heart is leaking pus<br \/>\nAnd the Western brain is near the end.<br \/>\nThe Prophet Muhammad and his evil double have started to blend.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States proclaims America First.<br \/>\nHe doesn\u2019t know Mecca from Milan.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s been a terrorist attack in Berlin.<br \/>\nAlso, the leader of North Korea<br \/>\nHas ordered a new diet for border guards<br \/>\nThat has given them diarrhea.<br \/>\nI repeatedly shot an innocent unarmed black man in the back who was fleeing<\/p>\n<p>Into a park full of broad daylight. Good morning.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re a senior citizen, you won\u2019t really live long<br \/>\nEnough to know<br \/>\nThe river of refugees has reversed its course,<br \/>\nFlowing the wrong way now on account of shock<br \/>\nAnd aftershocks and so many fools saying<br \/>\nHave a good day.<\/p>\n<p>The United States of America, its ribs gauntly sticking out,<br \/>\nTries to drink from a watering hole, all fifty states try,<br \/>\nBulls mooing like cows, Gestapo everywhere,<br \/>\nBut there\u2019s no water,<br \/>\nAnd this is not just in Flint, Michigan.<br \/>\nGirls and boys, a world you never knew is over.<br \/>\nI was writing a poem the other day that said so.<\/p>\n<p>It said we\u2019ve been living in clover<br \/>\nFrom Walt Whitman to Barack Obama.<br \/>\nOnce we\u2019d abolished slavery, we lived in clover<br \/>\nFrom sea to shining sea, even in terrible times.<br \/>\nNow a dictatorship of spineless vicious slimes<br \/>\nWe the people voted into power has taken 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