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War – this Embrace of the Butcher – Comes Again (and again…and again)
Seems now Death /has come to squat /squinty-eyed and sadly-obese /straight from the tanning tables /of Teheran or Tabriz/and from the grim Graveyards /of Gaza / come to sit and squat /outside /our bedroom door
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For the Schoolgirls of Minab
i papered its walls, properly, / with pictures of heroes who / once held our humanity / high as a flag to fly freely / on dark days and days of woe / but all our heroes have died / and here and now / is our Time / of Woe . A poem by Séamas Carraher dedicated to the schoolgirls killed in Iran by the United States
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“Executive Orders”
and see, one last deadly plague descend, / as this fool, he wields his dumb ‘sharpie” / and a whole world will soon collapse under / an army of Orders / cities under siege by bureaucrats / and bombs, by bullies and buffoons / with their armada of armed threats / and false promises / and always, and everywhere / the silenced cry of their exterminated victims…
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Fear of the Father? On not listening to Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address, 2026
So we listen now to /this bully /with his armed armada / of beatings and belts. /The one still terrified /of the whirlwind / that still eats the smile /from his frozen face festering /with this fleshing-eating virus / called Tyranny
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Like a Flower sifted through Agony
for here in a world of furious forgetfulness, / its savagery now floating like a symphony / from another death camp/they are still singing this one tuneless song / “never again” / Never Again? / Never ever again?
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To the Enemies of Humankind
and for the Kurdish people in Rojava, Occupied Kurdistan for the Palestinian people in Occupied Palestine and for those resisting, under paramilitary siege, in the Occupied Cities of the U.S.
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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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