Bob Green

Auntie Salma has died
A Palestinian mother
Far from home
Not complaining
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handcuffed and blindfolded
and taken to an unknown location
handcuffed and blindfolded
hooded lost and hidden
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Come around
Listen in
Settle down
Hear the sound
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Gentle Aboud
Just out from Ramallah
Where Jesus himself
Once preached at each door
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Apache copters fire on schools
filled with children,
filled with teachers
While the real Apaches
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Wall slices Palestine,
wall fence, human shame
wall steals water
wall divides town
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Grant us peace,
that we may not oppress our neighbors
Grant us justice,
that we may not enslave our neighbors
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Gaza dying quickly
parched and starving
sea close by
tongue caked with salt
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Then let’s forget the word entirely
it’s a made up modern word
for what’s been done by tribes since before before
made up by Raphael Lemkin
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I speak of your insistence
on believing what you’re told
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