Category Archives: Iraq

Connected

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

I wish I saw the Wallflowers at the Hartford Meadows on the twelfth of September eighteen years ago. I used to love The Wallflowers and my mom bought tickets for my 17th birthday and I waited all summer long and … Continue reading →

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Manifesto, A Poem

Posted on August 10, 2019 by

Some people believe so strongly in the ideologies they were either raised with, or found in some other way but they believe so strongly that they’re willing to lay down their life for their ideology even if they can start to … Continue reading →

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The Ignorant American: Professional Courtesy to the GEO Group

Posted on July 14, 2019 by

(Music by Toby Keith) American girls and American guys will always look the other way when black and brown folks die or when they see a baby crying in the hands of the feds left to sleep on the cold … Continue reading →

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Dead Doves

Posted on March 20, 2019 by

It’s March Nineteenth, two- thousand and nineteen, it’s sweet sixteen for one of the wars that we’ve lost count of all that remains are dead doves   and the graves are all overflowing, and we think we’re better off not … Continue reading →

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Jump Ship/I Sailed With Columbus

Posted on March 2, 2019 by

“I Sailed With Columbus”  When I was eight years old, in 1992 I first learned about Christopher Columbus and I sang along with my class “In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue” and we drew pictures of him … Continue reading →

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Elegy for Alaa Mashzoub

Posted on February 4, 2019 by

Blind assassins can’t erase your words, written in ink, can’t erase your message. Thirteen bullets and they think they have silenced you   but ink outlives blood, and paper weighs more than rock, and scissors, they can cut off your … Continue reading →

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The Lone Dove

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

When the hawk fell dead from the dark grey sky above, the lone dove exhaled.

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