poem

A rave and massive concentration camp

They danced, they raved
outside the world’s biggest concentration camp

Jerusalem,
a Quarter Pounder outside an apartheid wall

Morning,
one by one,
the children in their pajamas,
loving parents snuggle,
climb a warm wondrous family bed,
a warmth that should be all and larger
as their neighbors own no air, water, sky, border, nor energy,
as their neighbors have
no
right to live
unless they vanish in time or cede every fucking thing they are

They call blood ketchup,
love savagery,
prison breaks inhumane
in the headquarters of the colonial occupation,
in the halls of the empire

They always do,
the walls come down

They try to last laugh and bomb you into the ground when they blame
you for their own sins.
Instead, you stand together and cleanse them of their crimes with the
messy guns of history.

We always do,
the walls come down


In a noon day sparkle,
at the center of the world,
biked youths smile next to separate roads for the indigenous

Freeze.

You see the live ghosts,
touchable outlines,
smells that penetrate the very atoms of the universe

For razed villages and buildings cannot be suffocated under a gated settlement
or the rubble
or erased by a genocide machine

Stolen homes reclaimed,
the walls come crashing fucking down to the exultation of an entire human
race that will one bright fucking day be human

The pen and the sword are mightier weapons when correctly wielded together at the proper point in time and space