Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXX: "Gazans are Humans?"
too much to ask YOU
to see Gazans as humans?
50, 000 deaths
silenced, forgotten, buried
under the weight of daily life
FYI: Israel's oldest daily now sanctioned by the Israeli government, Haaretz, March 24: 50,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed in Gaza: This Is How It Happened, Day by Day
And Haaretz, March 24: Announcement That Death Toll Surpassed 50,000 Didn't Faze Anyone, Not Even in Gaza
Even Gazans aren't preoccupied by the number of dead these days. They're busy with questions of day-to-day survival: Will Israeli attacks become as widespread as they were before the cease-fire? Will all of Gaza be reoccupied? And who will die today or tomorrow?
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXXI: "crowded shelter"
crowded shelter
layer within layer
of hushed silence
