today, the mouse and i are Abed Elrahman Hamdouna,
a volunteer ambulance driver in the concentration camp called Gaza
who gave his life so the COLLECTIVE West invested
("us" against the rest ingested) dust to rust
subscribers to 'whiteness' could think themselves rich.

[in case you're wondering, no,
we didn't change the profile picture;

for lo, we never will until
the
"protection" racket racism bracketed
twentyfirst century's first genocidal
profit bidden "good"ness ridden

brazenly homicidal

crime against nature
is
finally stilled.

for i faithfiully promised Aaron's piece
of the breathing spirit
moving us all

i'd carry him with us forever and a day,
or
at the very least until

the mockery of democracy
masquerading as "freedom"

(that "news" monopolising
distraction aggrandising
empire of lies

dancing on the stolen proceeds
of
needful creeds

buffeting the threads
of
a five century slivered
border ordered
independence cornered
hapless Global South,

holding "exceptional" court
with its still smoking
arsenal of nuclear weapons

held above
the violence exalting
talking heads
of
its pinioned minions
and
soulless thralls)

stops murdering
the
these our brethren

human beings

bravely clinging
to
a stolen homeland's

actual independence

that he so loved

above

his shelf of "self"

that in
a
saintly plaint

beyond restraint

he spoked
unchoked
his
open heart

and gave us all

his conscious blessing

dressed
as
profitless life.]

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