I AM
I AM THE SUICIDE BOMBER GIRL*
Did you know that there is a biological imperative
for love? The glue that holds the human-tribe together
Without it we are doomed should natural selection choose
social media connections over old fashioned love for reasons
of say disease control Hate might reign supreme It too is in our
ancient DNA just another form of self preservation
Not opposites really more flip sides of the same coin that make us
the beautiful+cruel conundrum of the higher primates In Canada’s
aboriginal language there are 736 words for love & only 1 for hate
It does not require much complexity just a thick skull+hairy palm
Today we contemplate the aftermath of the bloodbath in France
Islamist militants have killed cartoonists journalists + 1 psycho-
analyst at Charlie Hebdo Also police officers +4 Jewish patrons
of a kosher grocery store
Of course we are all Charlie & now thankfully all Juif But are we
all the brothers Kouachi? Or just some of us? Were we all cheering
at the Bastille when heads rolled in 1789 Or just some of us? Were
we all looking the other way when trains packed with human-cargo
traversed Europe just yesterday?
Are we all thick of skull +hairy of hand? Under what circumstances
will the few become the many? In 1642 Galileo was hauled before the
Inquisition With his pen he endorsed the Earth’s orbit of the Sun
The Church threatened torture & locked him away until the day he died
For many the pen has always been as dangerous as the sword To quote a
fallen comrade of the pen Stéphane Charbonnier: I’d rather die standing
up, than live on my knees And die he did last Wednesday when the Kouachi’s
entered Charlie Hebdo & called out his name
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.. We’ve got to
live no matter how many times the sky has fallen.
DH Lawrence Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Live Damn it! Live!
George Costanza Seinfeld
Winter 2015 *on January 11 2015 a 10 yr. old girl was detonated in a busy
marketplace by Boko Harem militants hiding nearby
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