The Maw

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Genocide is not simply historical;
Genocide is not simply hypothetical;
Genocide is not simply justified
by “a right to defend oneself.” 

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Yet it is true that Genocide—dawning
the fetid, rotting costume of eternal
dominion & inevitable conclusion—
hungers for a simple world. 

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Genocide expects people, dead & alive,
to lay before its caustic maw, tenderized
by the brutality of cops &
soldiers, demoralized by the inaction
of politicians, hypnotized by an elusive thread
wound of guilt, victimhood & ethno-nationalism.

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When & wherever it appears, Genocide presents
a single option to anyone it touches,
behind or at the hands of death: to become
—like bloodless feed—
simple.

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The impossibility of one’s simplicity!
        You are complex!

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Complexity                    declared, embraced,
                                        nurtured, loved,
                                        & collectivized
grows & shares. 

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Silenced, it burns & dispossesses…

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How foul before the tongue of Genocide!
How offensive before the colonial Zionist pallet!

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“Antisemitic,” Bibi says of us
daring to see Palestine for its complexity;
to see ourselves for our complexity; 

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to unwind
      a 76 year old thread
      & find the plot
           to consume Palestine.