Saturday, March 05, 2011

Buying Time

The chill of their lies
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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