BLEED
PRICK ME & I BLEED
In a play yesterday the onstage
lovers caught in their own feedbackloop
of: lovehatelovehatelovehate I pate you
said my 3 yr. old client That’s okay said I
You can pate me + like me I pate you + I
hate you said she
Let us extrapolate to the Global stage Take the
Levant for example Ancient hatreds + loves (?)
spring up in the midst of an aborted Arab Spring
There will never be peace the pundits say
And what of the Jewish Question? 3 Yeshiva boys
kidnapped & murdered 1 Arab youth immolated Late at
night we hear the wail of the Mothers floating over Galilee
Grief has no creed it is democratic +free
So are Jews measured by a different moral yardstick? Are we
not human too? Are not self-preservation revenge + hatred the
sine qua non of humanity? They never stood up for themselves
fought back Why did they walk in single file to the oven doors?
In my world it is the year 5774 and these questions are not rhetorical
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I am not an animal. I am a woman.
The Elephant Man
Summer 2014
