Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Never Again for Everyone Tanka

This Brave New World, CVII
written in response to Associated Press, Nov. 14: "Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel rally in Washington, crying "never again"

a wavy sea 
of American flags mixed
with Israeli flags ...
at the corner an old man cries
Never Again for everyone



FYI: This is the sequel to the concluding tanka below of my tanka sequence, "Covering the War," for Edward Said, author of Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

Never Again
a promise, a slogan,
a bumper sticker ...
now a rallying cry
for more chaos and carnage