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“I wish a snake would swallow me.I wish the earth would split & swallow me.Bush sits beside me on the train.Iraq veteran cites his fear of fireworks.They think they’re the only ones with PTSD.We’re literate in peeling off our own skin to sleep.We live like walking debris,swallow snakes, swallow whole pharmacies,wrap our spines around the fingers of bank tellers, while Bush is at a Joanne’spicking the perfe
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“How far is Palestine?” She asks. It’s a fifteen-hour plane ride away,a dozen unresolved UN resolutions away, a few history lessonsaway, a hundred andsome military checkpoints away, too much G4S-provided asphyxiation.”

“What is a fact in Arabic is debatable in English,contentious. Thing is, I couldn’t care less.Say evict& I’ll still say theft.hyperlink them to death. ”

“I don’t have time for paranoia. Won’t flip rocks or look for merit in the death threats. If they come for me, let them: I’ve made my amends.Would be contentin my coffin. It is those stuffing sand inmy mouth that worry me most saying there are softer ways to say this. Thing is I don’t want to be soft. Don’t want to humanize shit. Look at my limbs, look at this earth.”

“Atlanta—woman,black-haired and brown-skinned,goes to the ER under the bridgewhere her hips were cracked openby men who are sometimes her uncles,sometimes her lovers,sometimes her choice.”

“US soldier admits killing unarmed Afghans for sport:Jeremy Morlock, 23, tells US military courthe was part of a “kill team” that faked combatsituations to murder Afghan civilians.—Guardian, March 23, 2011”

“Otherwisenail file becomes the villain, despitecontext. Context: they want catsdeclawed, they want knocked doorsunanswered, they want the other cheek.Terrorist Avenges. Headlines delusional.Are all heads equal?7 Is a soldier’s heartequal to her brother’s? I’ll hold my arsenal.When they ask me next time,I’ll say God held her hand.”

“It’s the same killingeverywhere.Seventy-some years laterwe haven’t lived a day.”

“Do not reconcileeven if they gift you gold.If I were to gouge out your eyesand place gems in their placewould you still see?—Amal Dunqul”

“Nowadays she walks fragile,so unlike the past that she battled,so unlike the past nameless faces remembered on her wrinkled face.They tell the story of the particular events:organized, plural,ongoing.”