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Kaddish (*) |
And on the eighth day
God created his bloody sore,
the Middle East
where only the streets
silently
speak of the dead,
where the buttercups cups,
cups are red
from blood,
where bodies are tossed
in oil, oil,
hot hot oil.
Don't burn your finger God
on the ziz,(**)
red, red ziz.
Allah-o-Akbar!(***)
(*)Kaddish: Jewish Prayer for the dead.
(**) Ziz: a flower, a cleft or pass, probably that near En-gedi, which leads up from the Dead Sea in the direction of Tekoa; now TellHasasah.
(***) Allah-o-Akbar: Arabic for "God is Great."
copyright 2006
Sheema
Kalbasi |
