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Thaer Husien
With a full settler
chest called
allies invoke
shades of named renegades
who took AIM at Custard
bang!
into Huey's Black Panthers
and jaguar print jackets
patched with Che
yet too afraid
to call our
freedom fighters
for who we also march
nothing but "The Resistance."
So this is for Yahya Sinwar, Fatima Bernawi, Leila Khaled, Abu Obeida, Muhammed Deif, Basel al-Araj, Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, and the millions of hearts and hands with a name imbued with centuries of lore but I call cousin with love, it's they I adore. Free Palestine means death to the United States. Death to the United States means First Peoples' land back and New Afrikán reparations. If there's any further confusion, let me clarify that October 7th was a prison break and the Palestine Question stems from 1492.
And in a different
more invisible kında way
every day
this genocide
in our iteration
first or next
kills me
a little more
deep inside
and most times
I want to kill you
for not dying with us too
so if I don't answer
know that I tried to show
explain but
won't bear responsibility
of convincing you deux
not taking five
justified
Irish goodbye
still love between us
if there's a jinn
hidden in your absence
so I can use every wish
to replace you with any
man, woman, or child
right before starvation hits
right before the bullet stops
right before the bombs drop.
Milla van der Have is...