my favorite historian says
“Evangelicals want to keep
Israel real
for the rapture,” now
their plans are
falling into place:
their bombs are
falling into Gaza;
their anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism equation is
falling into discourse hungry for excuse
for genocide
two wrongs mean
they’re right while
we blame the wrong
warmongers
diaspora-mongers
social-unrest-mongers
climate-catastrophe-mongers
I only want cheesemongers
not Evangelicals selling
every harbinger of the
Apocalypse,
the falling (up) they desire while
I want to choose
life, from this earth
rising in
place, discourse
to the sea.
L. Acadia is a literature professor at National Taiwan University and Taiwan Literature Base Writer-in-Residence with poetry in New Orleans Review, Strange Horizons, trampset, and elsewhere. Connect at acadiaink.com or IG and bluesy: @acadialogue