Allah Chanukah Poems

Salacia

Where two mountains almost meet, there is a canyon 
Of boulders and unfriendly nature, such as thorny bushes
And self-hating trees and among thistles, snakes roam...

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Destroy your Christ 
your god 
your idols fall all apart.

Lay bare your mechanical heart 
rebuild it with gears 
wire electric fire to curve 
your craving...

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Brooklyn 

Salt beef with onion
sandwiches.
Goat cheese made 
near the wailing wall
The waiter
is a scientist.

Intelligent eyes
behind thick-lensed glasses
do not dare to leave a tip.
The burden of...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Cyrus...

President of the country, 
not like any that came before. 
Or... Like any that will follow. 
Standing in the gap between the flood, 
and the...

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