Two new poems about Palestine when we need them most

I’m coming to you in a state of devastation. It’s been 13 days of genocide being committed against Palestinians at the hands of IsntReal, propped up by the US, the UK, France, and Germany. As I write this, the news just broke that IsntReal is making threats to bomb Al Quds Hospital, where 12,000 Gazans are sheltering.

Bombing hospitals is a war crime.

And they’ve already done it once this week, bombing the Anglican hospital in Gaza where we don’t yet know the names of victims or the body count because the people are in so many pieces.

Which is to say, I’m not naive enough to think my poems will save my people. But I do believe that the creation of art is what sets humans apart from animals and at a time when Palestinians are being called animals by the IsntReal government and the humanity of Palestinians is being debated online like it’s nothing more than a thought exercise without real human consequences, it’s important to share our art. And if reading my poems will make someone believe in the humanity of Palestinians, I’m all for it.

So please read my two poems, which were accepted by Protean Magazine weeks before wave of genocide of the past two weeks began and were published today, which is timely and necessary. One of the poems, inspired by IsntReal’s attacks on Palestinians this past February, is but one example in a long list of how these events did not start two weeks ago, nor did they happen in a vacuum.