October 30, 2023

Gaza, Take This Cup from Me

a Compendious Book on Guernica reruns in a place

Urim and Thummim chose to transform every figure

A cheap breastplate as random as desultory tribes

Equates to autoimmune disorder: acts sensitive to assumption

Reports, exogenous acts of God – by incidence and effects

Enshrine pernicious anaemia around anthropic argument

– imposing on you the easiness of death,

Defeat won’t matter, in every scenario they lose

stones placed for some day in the future, ordinance won’t matter,

in every scenario they lose, operations run their inquisition,

the vanquished of today

Masjids call

Flowers braver than us.

 


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