From River to the Sea: Part Five
The Mediterranean Sea, hostage to war.
The remnants of white phosphorus tremble in its waters.
And countless fish smile before burnt to the bone.
Venus, in her transparency, still wanders topless on the foamy waves.
The gun boats, in the exquisite flexibility of their vessel,
target their fire on the living in Gaza, sparing none.
The Mediterranean is now witness to a war crime, its blue waters giving sanctuary to warmongers, sailors watching with awe the precision bombs
wrecking the buildings, and human soul.
Venus swims at the feet of their giant oil slick.
Next stop, the Gaza hospital, the line of dead babies in incubators,
and grieving mothers, the doctors conducting surgery on patients in the dark without anesthesia, and Blinken still claiming to be protecting civilians!
No, no TV comedy show could ever make such a spectacle of America without conscience.
Rerelax friend, try your hands on a Foucauldian genealogy of genocide, remember the native Americans wiped clean, the Hiroshima bombing, the Mail Lai massacre, the Abu Ghraib prison, the Afghan debacle, the Ukraine proxy war, the allusion to slavery in Constitution, the "three fifth compromise." Alas, it's an old story, with the chorus of 'land of the free' accompanying it.
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Kaveh Afrasiabi
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