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Do This: Notes by an Accomplice Sing a kaddish for all tortured Palestinians & waltz slowly for each slaughtered Kosovo Write a poem for the millions of starving Tutsis then chant "Hail Mary" for each democracy overthrown Do this as a celebration of absurdity as a ritual to the depths of our apathy as a vision of how bestial humans can seem & if you have the strength, as a testament of what should never ever be allowed to be. |
As the fog of history lifts
I think of all who've come before & inquire,
"Why did you allow those nightmares to be?"
"Why did you permit the rise of Hitler
& such mutations of humanity?"
Such questions becomes easy with a buffer of history,
yet at times I wonder whether others will look at me & whisper
"Why did you allow the villians of your day to propser?"
"Why didn't you help more people in need?"
Am I not every bit as guilty
as all placing comfort over conscience
or rationalizing injustice as fate?
Hear the author read this poem.