Jain Spirit 2005 09 No23

Author(s): Jain Spirit UK
Publisher: UK Young Jains

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SPECIAL REPORT
Ten years after the event NewsHour airs a special report on the anniversary of the genocide Let us plant tin crosses rusted over with question marks Let us read from a leather-bound bible the Gideons place them even here
I sit upstairs in a wood-floored kitchen home to imported teas and frozen berries halfway across the world from the mass graves the thousand skulls that line the walls of a church christened slaughterhouse christened memorial
LONE TREE
Gahwiji
POEM FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
I remember the name Rwanda I was in the tenth grade I remember the names Hutu and Tutsi I remember headlines of killing I lived in West Los Angeles I read Chaucer that year I read Frankenstein
legless wingless finless you find more wonder in your one millionth sunrise than could I dancing on the moon
the air was sliced by bullets and bricks and words and fists and Muhammed fell dead and David fell dead and Haatem fell dead and Moshe fell dead and Rashid fell dead and Yehuda fell dead and Abu fell dead and Ariel fell dead and mothers on all sides
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