WITNESS THE WITNESS
For the time being, ICE Flight witness
has been called off by the city
duty to the Plague.
Flights continue. Asylum
seekers are being sent home.
No one really knows
what it's like on the planes.
My wife is making masks
for health care workers.
I'm listening to music
on my headphones.
I've just finished reading
a biography on Dostoevsky
and have renewed respect
for the Devil. The Devil
that's in me, the one capable
of doing so much bad shit.
That comes from knowing
the brother Ivan. I wanted
so much to be like Alyosha,
studying at the feet of Zossima.
A second-class Alyosha.
Not better at all.
No better than being
a second-hand atheist.
Jim Bodeen
2 April 2020
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