No Yankee In Mosul Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

No Yankee in Mosul

Was busy fixing film
-call came in
-of Hussein who returned
-of Kabul; much to say

He is now a bomb of hydrogen
-wants to kill all of them
-but babies
-shouts: 'can't be changed;
-they are dumb and donkeys! '

He speaks of people in Kabul
-cheating and bribing
-relations, friendship
-with lies and connections,

He too is like myself
-Two trees uprooted
-homeless we, departed
-the ugly, not knowing
-we will end in worse ones

Now we are there-here
-the no ones
-the no ones
-the no ones

Cannot cope with our pasts
-in new we are none
-what we do complain
-of being over there
-is export, of here

A so called son of mine
-holds IDs of US and Afghan
-he is well-connected
-to Dubai and Doha
-dollars of America
-recorded and claimed
-the budget only for
-improving Afghan

The deals head only for
-those who know how
-to write, prepare invoices
-the bills with good sidekicks
-Clear? I may-be
-must be wise to get me!

Wanted to tell Hussein of this fact
-he is hot and needs time
-needs to be reminded
-academic racism made him go
-he left his doctorate

Must also talk with him
-of two teams
-Taliban and ISIS, US kids
-wanting the civil war
-in region; internal
-games of fight
-like catching the poor fish
-off water filled with mud

For years in Pakistan, USA
-paid money, flared wars
-Muslims killed anti-God
-Arabs and Pashto fought
-the Moscow's infidel; USSR

With rise of Gorbachev
-came second Khrushchev
-moderate, toward west
-but abused and lied to
-with changes best became
-Taliban, Taliban, Taliban

Taliban soon found out
-Washington is great
-only for betrayal
-it is bag full of lies
-therefore chose Bin Laden
-everyone knows outcome
-the planes and twins

Bush, Chaney are the two criminals
-shamelessly declared, lied
-Saddam has W of MD
-planes shelled and poured bombs
-phoenix comes from ash
-came ISIS or ISIL or Daesh

Daily now old and young, children
-are killed and wounded and displaced
-no Yankee on the ground
-they claim, if are right
-use planes and drones
-Pilot-less

No matter what happens and who dies
-the gain is for owners and the rich
-planes, cars, factories to daily
-consumption of clothes to
-dish and plates, food
-will be bought
-from who? ? ?

The true criminals are resting
-where are Bush and Chaney?
-Blood-filled are rivers
-well-known as two greats
-Tigris and Euphrates
-Mesopotamia of old days

Lives are gone regardless of the dead
-in battles of West-side of Mosul
-either kills or is killed an I. S.
-or Shiite, the soldier
-or the Kurd
-Lebanese
-Hazareh


I shiver when see, read the numbers
-of Iraqi army and IS in Mosul
-the war is complex
-real cause those bastards…