by LynnWhite
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Never again the holocaust of Jews, of Slavs, of dissenters, of the mixed or mismatched ethnicity. Gassed starved beaten enslaved dying. Never again the swarms of refugees left behind fleeing dying pleading to be let in anywhere dying unwanted. Never again. That’s what they said then. But then in Gaza it happened again. And now in Gaza it’s happening again. Again and again and again.
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Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Peach Velvet, Light Journal, and So It Goes.
The amnesia and cowardice of the human beast trumps again any alternative impulse or idiocy. Imagine a policy of dropping food from the air killing people below?
We keep trying to make sense of murder, as though that is possible. We drop bombs, mutilate bodies, withhold food, create starvation, then scoop up the dead as if they were rodents in the field, and then we write poems pretending to understand.