Alphabet City

cc: Chagall 2022

While Putin is tied up in Ukraine, 
singularly obsessed, horses and elephants will amass
on his borders, from Mongolia to North Korea to Kazakhstan

At that time, the game will turn to Go,
and all of Russia itself will be the spoils, will be Xi's komi

Life and death, 
no mutual life

cc: Chagall, Tsai Ing-wen
2022

cc: Chagall, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen
2022

Everyone is falling
atop the orb within
blue sky, not below

funny how
some descents are
more rapid 

don't be sad, 
just inevitable outcomes 
of common sense

yes - that still exists,
despite all efforts to the contrary
Mary, Mary, quite...

How has your garden grown?
Nary a cockleshell in sight
these days...

Beautiful people all in a row

cc: Chagall 2022

Madam Vice President,

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
      Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
      And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
      And burbled as it came!

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
      And the mome raths outgrabe.

Sincerely,
Carlos Chagall

cc: L. Carroll, 1871
Please note that translations are unavailable at this time

Mayor Eric Adams of NYC just proclaimed 
the cities of Hoboken and Newark, New Jersey,
as rightful boroughs belonging now to Manhattan,
since the peoples there share the same accent, 
frequent the same pizzerias, and vacation 
on the same beachfronts as native New Yorkers

cc: Chagall, Ed Koch
2022

He does not know, we held on to one
SS-19 Stiletto, and a handful of Molodets,
each signed:

   Dear V.V., With Love, the Adventurers

cc: Chagall, All Kazak Team Leaders
1991, 1994

Tearing down statues,
creating cultural amnesia,
only guarantees that the toppled
will rear their bronze heads once again 
within three generations

Do not fear the past, no matter how hateful
it is; learn from it, brace against its recurrence, 
point to it shamefully - with disgust - when you must, 
but never erase its lessons

Don't sell short against those with patience
for the long haul

You must know, and your children must know,
paths we have already been down, those where
the thicket is dense, disallows light, air to breathe

You will better know The Way
that leads to quiet pasture

Want to do something meaningful?
Go topple a regime for real, if you've the balls.

cc: Chagall, Topplers
2022

“Why does Ukraine matter?”

How the independent, sovereign, democratic nation of Ukraine ranks:
1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;
7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

Ukraine is an agricultural country:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume);
1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
5th largest rye producer in the world;
5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
8th place in the world in wheat exports;
9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
16th place in the world in cheese exports.

Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

Ukraine is an industrialized country:
1st in Europe in ammonia production;
2-е Europe's and 4th largest natural gas pipeline system in the world (142.5 bln cubic meters of gas throughput capacity in the EU);
3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
3rd largest iron exporter in the world
4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
4th place in the world in clay exports
4th place in the world in titanium exports
8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;
10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

Source: Andriy Futey
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Ukrainian World Congress - Свiтовий Конґрес Українців

I do
try hard to
like your writing, 
sorry for not biting,
it's not your timing, 
maybe try not rhyming
at all

cc: Chagall, Whitman, Pound, Eliot, Blake, Dickinson, cummings, Williams, 
Ginsberg, Hughes, Stevens