Yawn & wail
Or just wailing (I deleted the yawning).
During an economic crisis one should read Blake and Rimbaud. And Stan Apps. And Linh Dinh if you can take it. It reads more bleak than Blake.
By W.D. Snodgrass, who just passed away (why is so much of these poetics about poets dying?)
And Gaza:
“While Israeli plains and artillery continued to kill indiscriminately in Gaza, Israeli poets recited protest poetry while president Shimon Peres attended the dedication of Bialik (the national poet)house in Tel Aviv. The poets read Bialik’s poem ‘on the slaughter’, and asked the attendees how are they able to sip champagne while hundreds are being murdered in Gaza.”