"Afghans Avenge Florida Koran Burning, Killing 12"
by Enayat Najafizada and Rod Nordland
April 2, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/
THE POEM:
avenge
mullah mullah mullahs
at the head of a crowd
taking off the heads
of another
an eye for an eye gets
lost in translation across
the universe turns into
a book for twelve bodies
a cartoon for four
too much wordtalking
from illiterate hands
cradling hate and tasting
triggers on the tips of
foreign tongues
flush and
fourteen piles of ash in Afghanistan
where fathers once stood
after men meshed Muhammad
with their own waste
in Cuba
the death of words
is the death of people
the way to avenge either
is the same
and vengeance knows no bounds
of geography
mullah mullah mullah
in my language
in your language
words are
such sorrow
in the making
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