Malfeasance
Stephen Taylor sent this poem as a comment on another article. We thought it deserved putting up as a blog post as a commentary on the facile response by Israel to their shelling of ambulances near Rafah and the murder of the health workers.
You can read more of Stephen’s poems on his Facebook page
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Steven Taylor
The deaths in this poem
Are less literal
Than the deaths in other poems
They were largely
The consequence
Of a misunderstanding
An error of detail
The officer in charge
Was wearing night goggles
And so couldn’t identify
The approaching vehicles
Correctly and opened fire
Causing the soldiers
Beside him
To do likewise
It was simply good fortune
There was a bulldozer
Available to dig a grave
And bury the evidence
Of a war crime
Exactly.
Steven Taylor is a master of conveying profound meaning in concise language.
As per:
‘If you suppress your humanness
your inner space will turn dark and oppressive
and eventually you will explode.’
Steven Taylor, Sadness (2017).
Not sure that was me, Harvey, but it could have been …. I’m delighted you like the poem. Solidarity
Very powerful poem. Thank you
As someone said in a post on youtube a couple of days ago:
They couldn’t see the red lights or reflective vest, but could see 6 “terrorist”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM8YLqUjt00
Needless to say, Hamas would never go anywhere unarmed, and the IDF would have retrieved any weapons and produced them as proof to the media…
Borrowed, merged and meme’d, for sharing on facebook. Hope that’s ok.