POETRY, PROSE, AND POLITICS

Fiction, serious reality, and at times their interaction.

  • RELIGION MUST NOT BE USED TO JUSTIFY EVIL

    The unreasonable people on either side are those who do not see that people on the other side have a right to exist in the Land of Israel/Palestine. The unreasonable Israelis are the radical right religious settlers on the West Bank who believe that all of the geographic Land of Israel (Palestine) was promised to…

  • TWIN STEEPLES

    My father was born in Rachoinz An internet photo reveals                                                                                                                           laughing Nazi troops watching Jews scrubbing Rachoinz town square, twin church steeples in background. Our travel years later: Square now a small green park. Steeples still loom behind. (postscript: town is spelled Raciaz but pronounced Rachoinz. I chose the phonetic rather than the actual spelling…

  • THREE OLD LADIES

    When my father passed away, it happened by chance that Kirit’s parents visited him from India. Kirit brought them to the shiva which was held at Mom’s apartment. They were hesitant and shy, uncertain of the customs. Mom and Sophie were seated on chairs in the center of the living room. Mom motioned for Kirit’s…

  • TO UKRAINIAN AMERICANS

    Trump and his radical right wing MAGAs in Congress are holding hostage desperately needed American aid for Ukraine in its fight to save itself and therefore Europe from aggression by Trump’s friend Putin. Vote for Joe Biden. Vote for Democrats in Congress and the Senate even if you are conservative in political philosophy. This is…

  • SERIOUS TIMES

    We live in serious times. In our land, America, Trump the crook wants to become a dictator for life, so not bothered by elections. Trump caters to MAGAs who hate immigrants like the isolationists who locked out my relatives during the holocaust to be fed to Hitler. Trump, the crook, wants to be president to…

  • EVIL CLOAKED AS VIRTUE

    Evil cloaked in the garment of virtue, the most sinister of all. Can one deny virtue? If it is divine will, how can it be wrong?

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William Smith

Writer & Journalist