#506 - a great victory (poem for Gaza)

 

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a great victory

sixty seven children dead

 

these murders

(nothing personal

twenty to one, who’ll take those odds?)

 

a great victory

count in corpses, if you can

count in rubble

count martyrs

 

smug, without a mandate but

take out the infrastructure for telling

make the struggle eternal

still the world stays tuned

 

everyone’s the little guy here

announce it with fire from the sky

 

the coffins of the children

the children surviving in fear

no food, no roof, no safe water

 

the hole where the home was

where the parents were

 

and some are still living in a bible

or some other nightmare

after all these years

beyond hope

 

who deserves

a surgical excision?

…and entertainment too

 

take out the tunnels

humans are shield

 

twenty to one

for how many generations?

people with nothing may dare

twenty to one

they know, they do

 

do you think the defeated are stupid

to stand up again?

 

sins of the fathers

here’s visiting upon

 

let the world see hear feel

no inch of anything ceded

but the soul

the sixty seven kids gone

 

and the settlement goes on

like any euphemism

 

cut the head off the beast

drive them into the sea

 

there’s always a bigger bully

 

this is how victims can do no wrong

yes, these are war crimes

here’s politics by distraction

and war is a crime as well

 

all for peace and security

ask where are the weapons from

 

please tell me which nation

wasn’t stolen

please tell me which nation

wasn’t just a bad idea

 

and what do kids know?

hunger and hatred

 

so we, so far off

own this too

here of rote empire

once voted this

and now

we close our eyes