back
from barcelona
     in a thog,
a word
  that could
    mean an action
 something like
folding slowly
       through   rain
 nebbia   mist
fog         clammy
                   dank
mosses’ paradise.

           everyone
using weather
              to start with,
especially
       clouds     & seasons
changing.

   back          in time
for devotional fireworks
         over the vatican

meanwhile
   the west bank wall
goes on
       going up,
  australia
     steals east timor’s
              oil,
moves
   another
    inconvenient
      refugee
   island shelter,
            off the map,
   commune di roma
           bulldozes
      rail siding
          gypsy camps,
     chechnya
         elects
           a russian,
   california
         elects
           a plastic toy

   empirically,
      ‘terrorism’
   replaces
         ‘guerilla warfare’
   or        ‘suicide bombing’

                    everyone
     using a neat grammar,
   especially similes,
       or a punch line
to finish with