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Starting From Scratch With Ol' Scratch

Starting from Scratch with Ol’ Scratch by Michael R. Burch Love, with a small, fatalistic sigh went to the ovens. Please don’t bother to cry. You could have saved her, but you were all tied up complaining about the Jews to Reichmeister Grupp. Scratch that. You were born after World War II. You had something more important to do: while the children of the Nakba were perishing in Gaza with the complicity of your government, you had a noble cause (a religious tract against homosexual marriage and various things gods and evangelists disparage.) Jesus will grok you? Ah, yes, I’m quite sure that your intentions were good and ineluctably pure. After all, what the hell does he care about Palestinians? Certainly, Christians were right about serfs, slaves and Indians. Scratch that. You’re one of the Devil’s minions.

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 12/9/2019 3:54:00 AM

Oh, wow! This deserves a second, third, fourth and fifth read. I am diving back in. I do not want to miss anything, Michael.

Michael Burch
Date: 12/9/2019 5:03:00 AM

Orthodox Christians have been wrong about major things in the past: antisemitism and the persecution of Jews, slavery, witch hunts, the burning of "heretics" at the stake. Today, I think they are wrong about what is happening to Palestinian children and their mothers in Gaza and the West Bank. That is my poem's main point.