the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXIV: "wall of indifference"
Life goes on behind the wall
written in response to Haaretz, Opinion, April 9: "This Intolerable Gap Between Jewish Memory and Palestinian Reality" and in memory of 15 executed aid workers
anything new
on the other side of this wall
of indifference ...
15 aid workers bound
and shot at close range
the young medic
with a penetrating gaze
at smoke-darkened skies ...
his last phone message: the path
I chose to help people
too much to ask you
to see Gazans as humans?
50, 000 deaths
silenced, forgotten, buried
under the weight of daily life
FYI: Listen to Harrteza's April 8 podcast interview with Nir Hasson: 'I Don't Know of Any IDF Soldier Who Paid a Price for Killing Innocents in Gaza'
Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson has been covering the war in Gaza for months. He has seen so many horrifying acts of war go unpunished and uninvestigated, that he was hardly surprised by the killing of 15 aid workers at the end of March.
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XX
tariff after tariff ...
another food bank lineup curls
around the corner
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XXI
the garbage bin
near the Fiction Section
of a dollar bookstore
piles on piles of copies
of Trump: The Art of the Deal
FYI: Yahoo! Finance, Oct. 13, 2020: As a businessman, Donald Trump ran 6 businesses that declared bankruptcy because they couldn’t pay their bills.
We’re watching Trump’s 7th bankruptcy unfold
And CoinDesk, April 11: Donald Trump's Memecoin Faces Massive $320M Token Unlock Amid Record Low Price, having lost 83% of its value since Jan. 18.
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., XXII
"Kiss my ass!"
he brags, going with his gut
and the world's forced to go along
for this roller coaster ride ...
Trump’s 7th bankruptcy unfolds
Added: the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXIV: "Seder and mass grave"
an empty chair
at the Passover Seder
100 miles away
in a mass grave bodies found
in paramedic uniforms
FYI: This tanka could be read as a sequel to the following:
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LVII: "Passover"
headlines bleed
into this sunlit suburb
on Passover
chants of Free Hostages
mingle with Free Palestine
