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. . . i was born a black woman
and now
i am become a palestinian

against the relentless laughter of evil
there is less and less living room
and where are my loved ones?

it is time to make our way home.

june jordan,

moving towards home, 1982

koherence / frakchured mirrorz

reflekting thekayos uv ourtym

1 . . .

theyearz point past

reality tevee showstyl genocide in

northeast afrika

u/s konstrayntz

kontayn no peace &

talk cheapenz thebodyz

sakrifycd in thethot bludgeond

tinkering metaterrorized edgez uv

mindfryt

 

thekonsekrayted body

on fyr

shaban al-dalou[1]

19-yearzold, a

software engineering student in gaza

burned alive with hiz muthr in a tent when

an israeli airstrike hit the/al aqsa hospitalrefuge

in deir al-balah. shaban on an iv-drip

theresult uv an earlier airstrike

on al aqsz mosque

to where he & hiz family fled after

being displaycd frum their home by the/idf  

 

shaban responsibl for thekare uv

2 yunger brotherz, 2 yunger sisterz

& hiz parentz / sakrifycd at thepyre uv

fear, revenge, & u.s. politikz

 

125 hostagez tunneled

deep in thekare uv

gazaz liberation

maligned

hamas guerrillaz

labeled militantz by western corporate media  

 

hi/liting thecheerz that ryz

frum angstsaturayted tungz uv

israeli citizenz grownup frum pupz to

harbour bludgeon, blindtheft & murder az

godz komandment

 

thezionist stayt othering

the/unseen palestinian

othered

 

zionz masterz  

skewering theirown imaginary,

writing terror & strewing theblood

& thebodyz uv theirkaptivz

on sankchuarywallz

2 . . .

an honest akkounting requirez that

yu kall hamas what they be

freedomfiterz

identifying israeli apartheid az kolonizerstayt

spotlit in historyz sunshine / a flayming zionist fringe

exekuting war by starvayshun & freefalling u.s. bombz pushing

u/s unipolarity az imperial order settler dominayshun

fed by militaryindustrial komplex scionz

aggregayting dollarz at the/expense uv

livez rippedup in kapitalist dublspeak, thetalk

uv twostayt solushunz when nosuch be even remotely

possible

 

where theamericozionistz order seedz solitary

settlement situayted in theholyland

mooving inexorably to

widerwar

with iran

in thenaym uv

u.s. hegemony az

the/only konversayshun

on thetabl

the/israelstayt

a/u.s. airkraft karryr[2]

bludgeoning northeast afrika

 

3 . . .

another palestinian muthr

karrying her childz severed head inna plastikbag

another israeli muthr

agonizing over her childz yearlong kaptivfate

another palestinian fathrz

bleedinghandz digging rubble frum hiz

daughterz eviscerayted body

another israeli fathr

protesting hiz sonz militarysakrifyc

palestine thebesieged land

land uv too many tearz

 

[1] Shaban & his mother died in a Zionist airstrike on tents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMjCWNu6jg

[2] Former US Secretary of State Alexander Haig: If there were no Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect its interests in the region. The United States would have to go and invent an Israel.” He once described Israel as “the largest unsinkable US aircraft carrier.

New York native Kétu Oladuwa is the son of Carrie and John Taylor, Margaret Fisher and Tyrone Foster, and the student of Chief James Hawthorne Béy. Poetry discovered Kétu while on death row for a murder he did not commit. There he calibrated his Afrikan identity & wrote himself anew. With his Life Partner 36 years, he is the father of five. A BS in professional theatre grad of Fordham U, with an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern, Kétu blogs at https://rootfolks.com. With 8 self-published books since 2017, he founded Identity Counts Cultural Collective, RootFolks Poets Press, cofounded & produced A Big Apple Jazz Club Series, & Poetikz @ the Krossroads. For 382 days, during 2015-2016, at 70 years, Kétu traveled alone on a motorcycle to the US lower 48 states. Now 80, Kétu's developing a multicity poetry tour.

Comments

  • Barbara
    November 2, 2024

    Way to go Omowale, Big Brother Ketu!! Peace & Blessings Barb

    reply

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