June 20, 2026
America's Most Critical Journal since 1999
By Martin H. Levinson
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say with ICE.
From what I’ve read about immigration quagmires
I think the odds are long on fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ICE
Is also great
And would suffice.
Editor’s Note: Inspired by Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice”.
Published in Poems
Martin H. Levinson, PhD, New York University, is a past president of the Institute of General Semantics, book editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics, and a contributing editor to The Satirist: America's Critical Most Journal. He has published 14 books and scores of articles on topics ranging from self-help fairy tales to social and historical analyses. He is currently a faculty member with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University, a teacher for the United Federation of Teachers’ Si Beagle Learning Program, which is located in New York City, and a lecturer on contemporary and historical topics for schools and public libraries.
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