Best Salman Rushdie Poems

Author of “The Satanic Verses” was stabbed
this morning in NYC.
In New York, doing a reading, that city which
now allows criminality.

Yes, I know a Fatwa, was put on his life.
But he’s fearless,  not out to please and can 
deal with strife.

I do hope he successfully...

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Intrepid gadfly;
the voice of dissent.
Multiple times stricken,
multiple times resolved.
Though he bleeds,
still the pen that chides never bleeds,
nor is it obliterated.
For three decades and four,
death he evaded,
still, multiple times stricken,
evasive he remains....

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  Salman Rushdie, advocate of Palestinian statehood for forty years 
    Now publicly acknowledges what he greatly fears

  That 'Palestine' would be run by Hamas, and be a client state of Iran ~
    Rushdie asks, Is that...

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