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 KarenAK rated 13 months ago -
watch it or read it but don't miss it !!
Suheir Hammad - Def Poetry
fire in the city air and i feared for my sister's life in a way never before. and then, and now, i fear for the rest of us.
first, please god, let it be a mistake, the pilot's heart failed, the ...
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- redneckdriver rated 12 months ago
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(Poem on Crisis of Terror)
by Suheir Hammad
New York, New York
1. there have been no words.
i have not written one word.
no poetry in the ashes south of canal street.
no prose in the refrigerated trucks driving debris and dna.
not one word.
today is a week, and seven is of heavens, gods, science.
evident out my kitchen window is an abstract reality.
sky where once was steel.
smoke where once was flesh.
fire in the city air and i feared for my sister's life in a way never
before. and then, and now, i fear for the rest of us.
first, please god, let it be a mistake, the pilot's heart
failed, the
plane's engine died.
then please god, let it be a nightmare, wake me now.
please god, after the second plane, please, don't let it be anyone
who looks like my brothers.
i do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
i have never been so hungry that i willed hunger
i have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
not really.
even as a woman, as a palestinian, as a broken human being.
never this broken.
more than ever, i believe there is no difference.
the most privileged nation, most americans do not know the difference
between indians, afghanis, syrians, muslims, sikhs, hindus.
more than ever, there is no difference...
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- davidwwalters rated 13 months ago
- What's a flag good for...american flags are at many cemeteries nation-wide...sad but true...
- KarenAK rated 13 months ago
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watch it or read it but don't miss it !!
Suheir Hammad - Def Poetry
fire in the city air and i feared for my sister's life in a way never before. and then, and now, i fear for the rest of us.
first, please god, let it be a mistake, the pilot's heart failed, the plane's engine died.
then please god, let it be a nightmare, wake me now.
please god, after the second plane, please, don't let it be anyone who looks like my brothers.
i do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
i have never been so hungry that i willed hunger
i have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
not really.
even as a woman, as a palestinian, as a broken human being.
never this broken.
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6. today it is ten days. last night bush waged war on a man once openly funded by the cia. i do not know who is responsible. read too many books, know too many people to believe what i am told. i don't give a fuck about bin laden. his vision of the world does not include me or those i love. and petitions have been going around for years trying to get the u.s. sponsored taliban out of power. shit is complicated, and i don't know what to think.
but i know for sure who will pay.
in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. "either you are with us, or with the terrorists" - meaning keep your people under control and your resistance censored. meaning we got the loot and the nukes.
...more
John77075 sent me the link to the YouTube page of this but I wanted one with the transcript so that I can read and remember it better.
Thank you John !
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