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Gaza

Writer's picture: Stephen K. PetterssonStephen K. Pettersson

CW: genocide, graphic violence, sexual violence


I keep thinking it will stop.

Any second, minute, hour, 

now.

I’ve been thinking that

for a year

now.


Surely, they’ve seen the little girl 

with half a head?

Surely, they must know 

of kitchen table amputations

performed by fathers on daughters,

without anesthesia?


And what about Shaban?

His last moments in the inferno,

tethered to IV-drips,

as he burned alive?

Or the man in Negev

raped in prison by

The World’s Most Moral Army,

a rabid dog

on America’s lax leash.


Did they see—

No, I meant a different body.

No, I mean a different crime.

No, a different time.

No, before October 7th.

Ah

they did see.

They just didn’t care.

Because all I keep hearing 

is that it’s nuanced 

and complex,

like it’s astrophysics,

and not a fucking genocide.


Cover photo by Merle Emrich.


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