Under Rubric of Investigative Poetry: that poetry should again assume responsibility for the description of history (Ed Sanders)
A series of random questions for citizens and poet-citizens
When was the Federal reserve created, and by whom?
Who was second in command to Jefferson Davis
& considered the brains of the Confederacy?
What was the primary material factor
in British sea domination?
What was Ezra Pound right about?
How many things don’t make sense about
the Bering Straits theory of migration?
What might that mean?
Who funded the Confederacy and why?
Do you accept the premises of the Warren Commission?
Do you accept the findings of the Warren Commission?
Who assassinated Ghassan Kanafani?
Where did the assassination take place?
Who was Ghassan Kanafani?
What was Dewey Canyon III?
Why did the Confederacy have to import
hay from North of the Mason-Dixon line?
Who assassinated Naji al-Ali?
Where did this take place?
Who was Naji al-Ali?
What happened in Bengal during World War II?
What does the term “false flag mean”? Please identify at least two.
Do you think buildings came down on
9/11 because airplanes hit them?
Do you accept the findings of the
9/11 Commission Report?
Do you think elements of the US Government capable of
controlled demolition of buildings on 9/11, or on other days?
Why did US and Kurdish forces provide cover
for up to 4,000 people associated with ISIS leaving
Raqqa, including fighters and weapons?
Do you think this was the case?
Do you think elements of the
US Government capable of creating ISIS?
Do you think this was the case?
Who assassinated Jean Sénac?
Where did this happen?
Who was Jean Sénac?
Where was Soha Bishara imprisoned?
Why was she imprisoned?
Who is Soha Bishara?
Who kidnapped Mordechai Vanunu?
Where did this happen?
Who is Mordechai Vanunu?
Where was he born?
Why do race and gender now
seem so high on the US agenda?
What does an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth actually mean?
What is the origin of this formula?
What are we talking about?
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What is an alphabet of logarithms
What is a primordial black hole?
What is a bubble universe?
Where are we?
What doesn’t the Confederacy die?
Who backs it?
Why is it getting away with so much this late in the game?
Who are the big brokers for the Confederacy?
Why is there so much focus on Russia? Is this a red herring?
What won’t Palestine and Israel ever heal?
In whose interest is this apartheid?
What does the Caliphate want?
What is the role of the protestant church in USA politics?
Why are so many politicians religiously identified?
What two countries at least 2,300 miles part were attacked by missiles on the same day by a power 8,000 miles away?
How did Barack Obama get elected?
Do you think he was “allowed” to get elected?
Does one see fear in former attorney general Jeff Sessions’ eyes
& that aggrandizing sick smile which is a
predatory gesture
of the face, jaw, mouth related to atavism…?
“I did not declare it so” he said in answer to a question by
Representative Karen Bass of the Black Caucus about Black Lives Matter
Did you see this?
What is the modus operandi of Jeff Sessions, of Alabama? Where is he now?
ICE: whose ads resemble ISIS ads, e.g. “We’re coming for you”,
“we are coming to kill you”. Who designs these ads?
Why do we borrow this strategy from our perceived enemy?
What is poetry struggle in this culture?
Do you know what a hielera is?
Do you no how many days you might freeze in a hielera?
What is he reaction of white people
to their own demographic demise?
How far will they go?
What is “crimmigration”?
What is your personal Zero Tolerance?
What will you not stomach?
What put chlorine in water for immigrant children?
Where is the outcry?
What is the antithesis reality?
What is the B.I.E. movement?
Why are there no public intellectuals in USA?
Are poets susceptible to media control?
Where is the sprit of ’60s rebellion; what will it take?
Why aren’t we continuing to have daily protests in this country around
white supremacy?
What is the poetry community doing about race issues in its own programming?
Why is the liberal media so obsessed with the Russia probe?
What about unexposed scandals of Vietnam,
the operations in Laos like Dewey Canyon II?
What is the US karma with North Korea?
How many people died in the Korean war, both North & South?
What was America’s role in the war with Korea?
Who knows someone who served in WW 2, Korea, in Vietnam?
Is there a literary mafia?
Who was Judah Benjamin?
Where does your water come from?
Do you think black holes materialize out of clouds of dust?
What is the Axion dark matter experiment?
Do infinite other worlds exists in “probability space”?
What does that mean?
What are the Gedankenmexperiments? Who coined that term?
What happened one second after the Big Bang?
What is a beauty hadreon? A Silicon sensor?
Were are we?
In what Collider
What is a decay project
Why do poets need to hire publicists?
Why was Amiri Baraka so vilified for his poem on 9/11-
(Alleged anti-semitism? Why was he stripped of laureateship,
denied notable prizes?)
Who holds power to the secret codes other than US President?
What is the battle between the law enforcements agencies?
What is a “sciamachy”?
What are the Bilderberg meetings?
What is your personal 100 year plan?
Who were the Move Nine?
What does it mean to you to be a “citizen”?
What is the most current case of egregious injustice?
What is “poethics”?
Why so much focus on Russia?
Who is Jigme Gyatso?
What does “skillful means” mean to you?
Why is the poetry discourse taking place primarily within academies?
What is the origin of the term Capitalocene?
What are we really doing about climate change?
How many weapons are on the moon?
Is anyone here working with “We’re Still In” movements?
What is the warmest year on record? Why?
How many immigrants are in US detention centers on any given day?
What are “plutonium pits”?
What are “jellyfish babies”?
Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola photo