barton smock
@bartonsmock
He/Him, poet, father. Most works are self published, and are pay what you want. Full-length 'Wasp, gasp.' (2023) is here: https://incunabulamedia.com/poethicks
I have all the words that have gone missing to say that I am thankful for being in the August 2021 run of Poem-A-Day at poets.org as guest edited by Kazim Ali poets.org/poem/soonisms
Bombshell reporting from Israeli Channel 11. The IDF has destroyed 1,000 trucks worth of aid and buried it rather than provide it to Palestinians. This occurred two months ago, resulting in the current hunger crisis in Gaza. The same source says that the IDF is about to destroy…
🚨 Breaking: IDF whistleblower says aid from 1,000 trucks was buried in pits or burned. This is internationally funded aid - IDF dug pits, everything from cooking oils to water and buried or burned it. This is how @cogatonline was lying about trucks going into Gaza.
A reminder that everything that has happened was knowable and predictable on the morning of October 7, 2023. Many of you failed, morally and analytically. Many of you ran interference for what the whole world now sees is a campaign of mass starvation.
The current Israeli government is overtly genocidal and routinely kills Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy; it’s about to kill many more. There’s no excuse for not knowing this; to rally behind them now is a statement of geopolitical preference, not moral principle.
We are seeing people use "stage 5 is irreversible" and "there's no food to buy" as an excuse to wash their hands of Gaza & claim that nothing more can be done. We see you & we know what you are. Do not allow these apologists any room to breathe. Do not let up for even a moment.
My poem from the Women of Ohio poetry contest (2nd place for me) is up on the site today: A Poem for the Aunts and Grandmothers on Livingston Avenue womenofohio.com/2025/07/25/dar…
The extermination of Palestinians was a personal crusade for two American men: Joe Biden and Antony Blinken.
Antony Blinken did speak just last week! He blamed the continuation of the war on student protestors
these same children who are starving to death right before our eyes tried holding press conferences begging us to save them in November 2023 and the world did nothing. I’ll genuinely never get over having to write these sentences as long as I live….the heart atrophies.
The US defunded the primary UN organization feeding the people of Gaza in Jan 2024 and no one batted an eye. They did it to help Israel use aid as a weapon of war. Now as the predicted famine arrives in full everyone is throwing their alibis together and it makes me fucking sick
is there anything more stressful than signing a card being passed around at work and having to figure out who to get it to next well yeah there is but still