Sabah Mohsen Jasim, the Iraqi activist, is quoted in The City Star saying “To be a poet one must pay much.” Visa complications have prevented her from attending the San Francisco International Poetry Festival that started tonight. US national security at work.

I was really hoping to hear Ferlinghetti, and the international lineup is exciting, but as Jasim put it “routine seems a real foe”.

Indeed. With everything going on right now I can only hope I have a free moment to attend. As I told a friend recently, “I’ve had to be both a morning/night person lately, so ring whenever. If I answer, then that’s what I’ll be.”

WWSCD? (What would Schrödinger’s cat do?)

But seriously, I wonder what Jack Hirschman has up his sleeve for the next couple of days.