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Palestinian poetry, part 2
Reblogged from Tracy Abell- Palestinian poetry, part 2
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3 responses to “Reblogged from Tracy Abell- Palestinian poetry, part 2”
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I left this comment there too, worded differently. I’m leaving an excerpt to a poem, “The Cost of This Poem”. It’s not written by a Palestinian, but the borders in the hearts of poets, are they as hard to pass as international borders?
Even their children get stuck in prison.
The kid threw a rock.
Let’s do away with his life.
Let’s beat ‘im up some.
Oh my the boy got raped,
and it wasn’t by a Palestinian.
Can we press charges?
I don’t have to do a goddamn thing.
We own the Palestinians.
Why do you look the other way?
We have special permission to do this.
We got it grafted in humanity we can.
We are the special people.
All our persecution says that.
I’ll turn around and smile some.
I don’t know how to behave myself
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