buying time to regroup
to fend off the people
to abduct them in the night
to crush the rebellion
The lies of the rulers
corrupt in their power
bombing their people
crying out for freedom
for fundamental rights
The world silent
complicit in their deception
giving a stage for their madness
to speak without consequence
spewing lies in the air
March
6, 2011
All
of the North Africa and Middle East coverage
versus
the freedoms we share
such
as our town’s School District Meeting
March
5, 2011
&
“Moammar
Gadhafi's son speaks with CNN”
Saif
al-Islam Gaddafi
Saif
al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Nic
Robertson
&
edited April 25, 2015
Black and White – v2
September 4, 2006 19:05
Black and White
&
edited April 25, 2015
The Granary – v2
January 30, 2010
The Granary
This poem is about my memory,
of the jarring sensation
seeing a photograph circa 1994,
of one of the all-time
great pictures, capturing evil,
before it rose up to full flowering
of Joseph Goebbels,
in 1933 at the League of Nations
Life Magazine article about the photo
on display at The Granary Gallery
on Martha’s Vineyard
taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),
a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the
century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.
&
Tweet
about nighttime abductions in Tajoura district of Tripoli
massacre
in Zawiya
March
4, 2011
&
firing
of tear gas on people coming out of prayers
in Tajoura neighborhood of Tripoli
March
4, 2011
&
the
coming of a Friday day of prayers, which have been the days
of
the largest protests in many of the countries in revolt
March
4, 2011
&
The
ludicrous statements of Moammar Gaddafi
February
28, 2011
The
coverage of the sons of Muammar Qadhafi
with
Christiane Amanpour
February
27, 2011
&
seeing
the genocide in Libya
and
hearing the rabbling of Gadhafi
2/22/2011
&
on
the transformations since the beginning of January -
all
the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Oman,
Jordan,
Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, etc.
and
especially
the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
February
11, 2011
&
and
the jubilance in Tahrir Square
versus
the bloodshed in Bahrain and Libya, etc.
February
18, 2011
&
hearing
claim by President Obama 2/15/2011
in
a news conference that when history books tell it
we
will be seen as being on the right side of history
in
how the United States responded
&
Post
on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“Our
Revolution was like Wikipedia”
February
14, 2011
&
Post
on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“This is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero
because everyone was a hero.”
February
13, 2011
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