Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Socialist Sonnet No. 168

Proportionate?

 

Four children playing marbles is an act

Of terrorism? What of families

Forced to sleep in tents? The authorities,

Judge quite proportionate to the fact,

Launching a punitive conflagration

In order to maintain security,

The long-term future and the purity

Of a divinely appointed nation.

The irony of a pogromed-people

Driving others into ghettos, where they

Will survive and simmer, then find a way

Of striking back as soon as they’re able.

Observed in the breach, professed human rights

Spurned as rhetoric of anti-Semites.

 

D. A. 

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