Palestine

from Doha News

 

smoke from burning tires

clouds the summer sky

the street a river

of bottles old food

used toilet paper

raw sewage and blood

 

three families sleep

in one room share one

bath one cold kitchen

one bare yard the smell

of perspiration

salted with dread

 

Zionist settlers

build a wall depress

a population

with economic

servitude hatred

humiliation

desperation death

 

soldiers with machine

guns tanks grenades gas

comb ghetto alleys

for children with stones

little boys with sticks

moms with wooden spoons

 

families fight back

with homemade weapons

rebels dig tunnels

martyr themselves as

modern explosives

made in USA

rain on tenements

 

settler zealots

"God's Chosen People"

bulldoze ghetto streets

withhold water and

electricity

murder fathers jail

teens assault children

 

as world media

reports terrorists

attacked innocent

settlers who were

fishing for salmon

in West Bank streams and

Gaza lakes today

 

smoke from burning tires

clouds the summer sky

the street a river

of bottles old food

used toilet paper

raw sewage and blood

 

Hanthala

a symbol of the Palestinian resistance

sticker affixed to a Doha car window