Invasive species Quotes

“reality show

prisoner swap
al azhar's next top fatwa
the great baklawa baking show
fear factory
meet your dystopian date
weapons deal or no weapons deal
name that war
sanction this
amazing race for clean water
so you think you can poetry?
survivor: Post-deportation edition”
― Marwa Helal, Invasive species

“this is where the
poets will interject / they
will say: show, dont tell / but
that assumes most people
can see”
― Marwa Helal, Invasive species

“let every poem I write be a response to the cumulus cloud of aggression that follows me
and let every word work to reverse the effect of the slow meting out of system[at]ic
violence let every letter represent a human standing in protest”
― Marwa Helal, Invasive species