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Making Money from War
We stand at the edge of a fucking Abyss. Its rabble-rousing smoke / silently sucking the oxygen from already crucified lungs. Like lemmings, / a hundred million motherless soldiers, our long-lost brothers and sisters, / (your own sons and daughters, comrades and neighbours), must soon step / out into desolate space – A poem by Séamas Carraher
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Every Time the News from Gaza
and peace falls from / its harmless crutches / outside the blood-stained ruins / of one more Palestinian or
Lebanese hospital… A poem by Séamas Carraher
A Land Without a People? A People Without a Land
if only this endless bloody rain / could wash away these thieves and thugs, / gangsters, hoodlums and real estate dealers / who we know by now / proudly declare themselves / to the stone-deaf, to the dead / and the dying / “We, The Chosen Ones” / AKA (Also Known As), / The Demons of Genocide & Atrocity
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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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