IF NOT NOW, WHEN?—CALL FOR AN END

Inspired magari by Cairo— and for those who haven't followed the sordid headlines, linked by this Premier's forcing an inferior to get a prostitute out of jail for being Mubarak's supposed niece—

fed up long ago, the capital's piazza "del popolo"—of the people—animates, at long last in recent memory, the name:

a call for corrupt and injurious leadership to get lost seared by the hundreds of thousands in the name of women, to be written up, one reckons, as a strictly gendered message to marginalize, though we're crammed with as many non-women in the teeming ellipse:

cutting across the political spectrum, ormai, people who won't submit to further erasure—of constitution, bodies, rights, minds, futures....