I suppose that’s all a citizen of this area can hope for – patience.  Waiting for 2 peoples who want to occupy the same place to figure out how to stop fighting for the moment.  We slept last night after four nights of being wired to jump out of bed and run two flights down to the shelter.  Not because it was safe to sleep but because we were exhausted.

And now we have to see family, solve family problems and start getting ready to go to the States in 2 days.

Yes, we’re going to the US for 2 weeks, to worry from abroad.  Not an easy task.  Mostly family events but also time to see friends.

This will be the first time I’m ready to give a reading but no one in New York invited me and I didn’t reach out to my usual places.  It’s not easy because I have a whole slew of new poems I haven’t even tried to publish and I know would have to go through a political strainer before the poems could even be considered.