End, end the Gaza genocide
Jan 19, 2025
Worshippers of Death, They will remain such, In the annals of human history. Never forgiven, Never forgotten, For the genocide, They perpetrated! …
GAZA, GAZA, GAZA
I look at the photos
I look at the videos
I look at the explosions
I look at the obliteration
Dust rubble
Everywhere
Every image
Witness to the horror
I think images
Sameness
Gaza Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw/Gaza Ghetto
Interchangeable
Same terror-stricken children
Same terror-stricken adults
Same intense fear
Same intense helplessness
I stare I see
I shake I cannot believe
Starved faces
Dismembered
Arms legs torsos
Heads hands
Lying in the rubble
In the dust
A silence has descended
Among many
We cannot mention
In polite company
Dehumanisation
Genocide annihilation
It makes us depressed
It disturbs our enjoyment
Of our pleasures
Of our often facile
Approved hedonism
Our shopping therapy
Our petty intrigues
Our petty worries
We must not talk about it
Think about it
It’s impolite
It’s rude
It’s bad mannered
It’s disrespectful
In respectable
Bien pensant company
To talk about it
Tomorrow, tomorrow
New days will dawn
The American Masters
Together with their European
Vassals
Will trumpet
Netanyahu, Ben-Gevir, Smotrich
We will protect you
Make sure
All will be forgiven
All will be forgotten
You will be assured
The good life
Peaceful death
War criminals they remain
Of Disintegration
Of Dismemberment
Of Non-Existence
Of Nothingness
Worshippers of Death
They will remain such
In the annals of human history
Never forgiven
Never forgotten
For the genocide
They perpetrated !
– John-Janusz Ebel
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END, END THE GAZA GENOCIDE
I think of Adorno
Writing in 1949 that poetry
Cannot be written after the Holocaust
I think now in 2024
We must write
Write to the exclusion
Of everything
Urge all writers
All philosophers
All historians
All journalists
All poets
To think
To write to speak to read
About the Gazan Holocaust
To write nothing else
For a week
For a month
For however long
Until the genocide stops
It will require courage
It will require solidarity
A worldwide strike
Writing strike
Excluding everything
Except writing
About Gaza
There is nothing that’s more Important
For a ceasefire
For a just peace
For reparations to Palestinians
For Palestinians right to return
For saving Palestinians
From extermination
It’s extremely urgent