#I feel heart-pounding anxiety that some anonymous internet stranger is going to send me hate

[raybutani]

I have gotten a few anon asks with people’s feelings re: Israel. I am not equipped to, nor do I desire to engage in conversations or debates about it.

Every time there is major global unrest in the news, I come back to this poem. This is how I’m feeling.

#I feel heart-pounding anxiety that some anonymous internet stranger is going to send me hate #or just in general that I’ll say something that will make me seem cruel or ignorant about the situation #these are the kinds of trivial worries I get to have while people are being killed and terrorized #and it’s just awful #I do not deserve this comfy life more than anybody else #poetry #ilya kaminsky #israel