Touch the Donkey supplement #294 : seven questions for David Hadbawnik / @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/02/ttd-...

'let them do their jobs'

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

what fresh hell...

very true. everyone's focused on the highly visible happenings downtown, but there are abductions happening in quiet 'burbs and towns all over the state. at school bus stops. at apartment complexes. people just trying to get to and from work, their kids to and from school. it's horrifying.

I'm not worried about getting arrested--er, detained--it's frightening, and I want to avoid it. But what's far more worrying and frightening is the 360-degree surveillance state that goes along with the ICE incursion. People have no idea how pervasive this is, and how it's being used by the feds

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

hit me driving home on the freeway thru downtown, passing by (possible) ICE vehicles with bros in the cabin and out-of-state plates... what they've unleashed on our city is 3000 kyle rittenhouses. they are armed to the teeth and not only untrained and enabled, but eager to shoot us.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

About to begin marching

From the general strike march downtown today in Minneapolis

yep

Demonstrating against the nazis downtown today

So I didn't realize that Stranger Things season 5 was actually a documentary about Minneapolis in 2026. Haven't been posting here much, but will be ramping it up as I begin attending stuff and documenting. Welcome to the resistance

a few recent typewriter things, one with a couple of lines from Clark Coolidge sprinkled in... I've been playing with those lines and rhythms off and on for the past 20 years at least, finally feels like I did them a small bit of justice

God love Andy Partridge and XTC: Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in Shilling for the fellow who milks the herd Shilling for the fellow with a wife for keeping How can we feed love on a farmboy's wages?

A recurring dream (nightmare?): I'm enrolled in a class. Months have gone by, but I haven't attended, indeed I've forgotten I'm in the class. Assignments and exams have been missed, and now I'm desperate to catch up - but I don't know where and when the class takes place

Dear Folks -- I know everything is terrible right now, but please take a moment to look at this gofundme for Robbie Dewhurst, a dear old friend from Buffalo days, and his fiancee Marwa Abdul-Rahman, who lost everything in the LA fires.

While watching Inland Empire yesterday——>

Just got a shipment of some of these from my wonderful publisher, Shearsman Books… getting ready to do some readings for the first time in years Shearsman.com/store/Hadbawnik-David-c28470013

Just a few sonnets that originally appeared in the Denver Quarterly last year by way of introduction... Welcome everyone, and cheers!