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Bullies, the cricket and the choir: sonnet for Israel


Gary Lindorff
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Israel is rampaging, thank god it isn't bigger.

Little bullies cast big shadows

Like a cat that plays a tiger

Or a shadow-boxer standing on his toes.

Bombs serve bullies, the bigger the better.

The biggest bang is the bang for them.

Drones are for sissies, it's the counts that matter --

Numbers trump mere mayhem.

First you bomb the hospital then the town.

Infrastructure, water, food supply,

Uptown, downtown, midtown, playground.

Destroy, patrol with checkpoints, occupy.

But I'm just a cricket drowned out by the choir.

Bullies are legion like empire.

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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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