Before the Next Bomb Drops Quotes

“we are the boat
returning to dock
we are the footprints
on the northern trail
we are the iron
coloring the soil
we cannot
be erased”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

“a smashed window always rings louder
in the media's ears than the clacking
of six rounds emptied into
a black teen's body
#Ferguson”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

“building bombed, beams through flesh
buried under rubble
suffocated to death
but only beheading is barberic to the West
#Gaza”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

“Iraq is destroyed
a nation became a broken item bought
a sectarian land, a money suck
a place where soldiers die
a mistake, anything but Iraq”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

“the world is a messed up place

rolled off your tongue
like an arrogant excuse

it’s easy to say that
when drone strikes aren’t
leveling your block in Brooklyn
when stop-and-frisk isn’t
haunting your every move
when your baby’s
blood-spattered body isn’t
plastered onto your
Park Slope avenue”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

“not enough space in a poem
to read all the names
of the dead”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine

“rocking boats
waves crashing
people rushing
falling over each other
packing into small spaces
like memories”
― Remi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine