Listen to a reading by Tim Foley: “I want my legs back,” the girl cried in Arabic. “I want my legs back.” You can’t have your legs back, little girl. They have been eaten by a hungry machine who needs them for fuel to power its gears. The machine needs your legs to keep the sky raining bombs
When Africans dismember and decapitate human beings using machetes, they are savages. When Westerners dismember and decapitate human beings using bombs, they "have advanced armaments".
In her poem Caitlin is saying to us don't you dare forget the children of Gaza. The children shot to pieces. Their limbs amputated. Burnt. Hungry. With their battered saucepans waiting for gruel to be doled out. Wise with misery beyond their years. Looking for their mothers and fathers in the rubble. The little children who became old and wise in an instant. The little children lost.
I just cut and pasted the poem into a comment from me to Biden on the White House website. It worked. I'm gonna do it now to Kamala Harris. Then I will cut and paste it into a comment to my Congresswoman (Judy Chu, D Pasadena). I write/scream/bitch to my elected reps on a regular basis not because it will make a difference because they are so full of shit. I do it because I want their interns and staff, and for the White House, their political appointees, to feel guilty (or maybe just a teeny bit uncomfortable) for working for them. It brings a smile to my face when I push submit or hang up the phone, so it's worth it to me. I was a congressional intern like a million years ago, and look at me now! Try it my friends!!
Thank you for saying this Caitlin. The chilling finality of the lost limbs of children, the lost parents of orphans, the weeping of children who wish they had been martyred along with the rest of their families, is beyond heartbreaking. I can no longer listen to those lying mouthpieces, and don’t understand how the journalists who sit and listen to their disrespectful nonsense are not yelling at them and calling them out for their lies.
I am weeping from the truth, beauty and horror of this poem, Caitlin. Your ability to shift modes, from dark humor to deep compassion, is astonishing. I read every one of your posts in awe. Thanks so much. Ros from JVP-NYC
The people in Gaza are being ruined. 34,000dead. 100,000 maimed. Children will be stunted mentally and physically from starvation. ALL are suffering traumas they will never get over. Not just from the bombing but also from the world looking the other way. The entire population will be suffering from major PTSD....forever.
The starvation just goes on........while the focus is now on the Iranian attack which demands a response. Did anyone notice it WAS a response to the Israel bombing of their embassy killing top Iranian officials???
It's not only the bodies of children that are being ripped apart in Gaza, but the heart of humanity. As we sit in living rooms witnessing the carnage while we try to digest what is in front of our eyes, the soul of humanity, providing there is one, is being torn apart just as much as Palestinian children's bodies.
When push comes to shove, we are 30 minutes away from nuclear Armageddon, but if that scenario is somehow delayed for a few more years, the Earth's climates may get the job done that much sooner. Reminds me of Tennessee Ernie Ford's 'Sixteen Tons' in which the lyrics tell of a miner's fists, "If the right one don't get ya then the left one will" Pick your poison --- climate apocalypse or nuclear holocaust.
When Africans dismember and decapitate human beings using machetes, they are savages. When Westerners dismember and decapitate human beings using bombs, they "have advanced armaments".
We are the Evil Empire.
We are ruled by monsters.
Turns out the kingdom being held together is not glorious at all. Nothing but a bunch of common, inglorious thugs. Inglourious basterds.
beautifully sad and moving and true thank you as always for your never ending work ❤️
In her poem Caitlin is saying to us don't you dare forget the children of Gaza. The children shot to pieces. Their limbs amputated. Burnt. Hungry. With their battered saucepans waiting for gruel to be doled out. Wise with misery beyond their years. Looking for their mothers and fathers in the rubble. The little children who became old and wise in an instant. The little children lost.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK SO NO MORE CHILDREN SCREAM TO HAVE THEIR LEGS BACK!
I just cut and pasted the poem into a comment from me to Biden on the White House website. It worked. I'm gonna do it now to Kamala Harris. Then I will cut and paste it into a comment to my Congresswoman (Judy Chu, D Pasadena). I write/scream/bitch to my elected reps on a regular basis not because it will make a difference because they are so full of shit. I do it because I want their interns and staff, and for the White House, their political appointees, to feel guilty (or maybe just a teeny bit uncomfortable) for working for them. It brings a smile to my face when I push submit or hang up the phone, so it's worth it to me. I was a congressional intern like a million years ago, and look at me now! Try it my friends!!
Thank you for saying this Caitlin. The chilling finality of the lost limbs of children, the lost parents of orphans, the weeping of children who wish they had been martyred along with the rest of their families, is beyond heartbreaking. I can no longer listen to those lying mouthpieces, and don’t understand how the journalists who sit and listen to their disrespectful nonsense are not yelling at them and calling them out for their lies.
I am weeping from the truth, beauty and horror of this poem, Caitlin. Your ability to shift modes, from dark humor to deep compassion, is astonishing. I read every one of your posts in awe. Thanks so much. Ros from JVP-NYC
Thank you Caitlin🙏
The people in Gaza are being ruined. 34,000dead. 100,000 maimed. Children will be stunted mentally and physically from starvation. ALL are suffering traumas they will never get over. Not just from the bombing but also from the world looking the other way. The entire population will be suffering from major PTSD....forever.
The starvation just goes on........while the focus is now on the Iranian attack which demands a response. Did anyone notice it WAS a response to the Israel bombing of their embassy killing top Iranian officials???
“…that will never come back.”
That will NEVER. COME. BACK.
It's not only the bodies of children that are being ripped apart in Gaza, but the heart of humanity. As we sit in living rooms witnessing the carnage while we try to digest what is in front of our eyes, the soul of humanity, providing there is one, is being torn apart just as much as Palestinian children's bodies.
When push comes to shove, we are 30 minutes away from nuclear Armageddon, but if that scenario is somehow delayed for a few more years, the Earth's climates may get the job done that much sooner. Reminds me of Tennessee Ernie Ford's 'Sixteen Tons' in which the lyrics tell of a miner's fists, "If the right one don't get ya then the left one will" Pick your poison --- climate apocalypse or nuclear holocaust.
what's immoral they legalize
what's perverted they normalize
what is moral they denigrate
what is nasty they celebrate
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what once was pure they have defiled
what once was tame they have made wild
what they make is our hell on earth
what they take is our own rebirth
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We need clear firm marching orders in order pLz now soon... We MUST reverse this somehow someway?!??