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Child. Cold. Death “…in Slow Motion” – 2
How can you bear the frozen death / of even one small child / and not go mad with rage or grief? / How can you bear it / but for this dumbfounded-but-deadly / sleep / your drunken singing and dancing / unleashes / like a cold-dead-stone / in place / of your body / and soul?
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Gaza ‘CEASEFIRE’? “Death, in Slow Motion” or…“Happy” “New” Year, Gaza…
and now, and here, where / “even getting one loaf of bread into Gaza” / must change / “the whole of the geopolitical order.”/ Enough! Basta! / Even the silenced corpse complains
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After Gaza
After Gaza i can no longer kiss /my dead children goodnight /because they are still in-hiding /from monsters buried beneath /tons of rubble stored in /too-many-inhuman minds for millennia
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O, Lord of Hatred – after Listening to Steven K. Bannon’s “War Room[s]”
“This is how fascism comes to America. Not with jackboots and salutes,” but “with a television huckster.”
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This Fascist Inside of Me
Once we were asked / who are these criminals, you speak of? / But, look, already they are fading / into the forgetfulness of the fire/ for we have buried our own / hearts and minds / in the loneliness of this belonging, / burned our own homelands, / broken everything down / to the boneless bone./ and all that is left now/ is their fascist inside of me
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Hind Rajab Killers Now Identified. Time Now for “Nuremberg Trials” 2 (3,4,5…)?
Al Jazeera has released a new Documentary that uncovers “new evidence in the killings of Hind Rajab, her family, and the rescue team in Gaza City”. The documentary, in partnership with the Hind Rajab Foundation, is entitled Ma Khafiya Aatham
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On Listening – being listened to – by the Palantir Corporation
this beast that was empire-born / and brutal-bred / in blood and bewilderment / waking with a snarl / a century’s most poisonous ideology / with mask and truncheon and murder / now telling me / who i could be, one-day, / a rising star of the swastika, another / celebrity of chaos and cruelty / and catastrophe
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STARVATION
“Many new tyrants keep a copy of Mein Kampf in their drawer; it could still come in handy, maybe [NOW] with some adjustments or the substitution of some names.” ( Primo Levi, 1986)
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(And Still…) The Hell of Gaza
today they will burn children / in their tents and tenements / and babies in their cots / and this, let me tell you, / is a time of Hell / and to write poetry while Gaza burns / must be barbarism or worse
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Now End All Thoughts of Peace?
For (small) Amayah – and her World…waiting to be born. It was the Autumn of the Fences / and blood flowed freely. / So freely it froze the fragile faces of / the small ones and the innocent ones
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