THE TRUTH WILL NOT BE BLURRED
For little Mira whose poignant story of survival after being targeted in the head by a quadcopter was told in Josh Rushing’s “Kid’s Under Fire” Al-Jazeera – for all the children of Gaza and the West Bank similarly and deliberately turned by the IDF into human bullseyes.
“The blur is a privilege”
Josh Rushing
in D.C.
they recline
in their leather sofas
their Gucci shoes up
on gilded tables
to watch
the live streamed spectacle
of the genocide
they are
the executive producers of
as they watch
the director’s cut
they give instructions
to splice off
whatever
can be construed
as
too damning
in the roll of credits
after all
they are perfectionists –
they want their ethnic cleansing
and an Oscar too
after all
they know that
the horror
can at any time
be switched off –
clickety-click
after all
they hope
the viewer will
hit the pause button
often enough
to mix cocktails
and
eat a bloody Mcburger
with the relish given
by the sight of mass graves
after all
they retain the privilege
of introducing
blurs
after all
they can let the witnesses know
that they are the ones
who are not sound of mind
little do they realize
that the bits and pieces
of Truth
fallen
on the editing floor
will survive
little do they foresee
that the thousands of children
assassinated in Palestine
will haunt them
without
being switched out of sight
or paused
or spliced
little do they know
that their favorite cocktails
and craven popcorn
are
a very cheap version of paradise
(c) Julia Wright. April 8, 2025. All Rights Reserved to the overseas surgery needed by little Mira four years old, a survivor of the IDF’s attempt to make her a target of an EJK or extra judicial killing – worse than a war crime.
CONNECTING THE BULLET DOTS
for all the children who are dying from EJK – extrajudicial killing – in Palestine. EJK is worse than a war crime.
magic bullet here
magic bullet there
magic bullet everywhere
follow follow
the impossible
zig
and zag
of a bullet so magic
it is the proverbial tree
that can hide
a vast forest
of hidden genocidal crimes
a sleight of narrative
is spun by magicians
who mean us
not to take our mystified eyes
off the trajectory
of a bullet
that made a US president die
but the fact
that bullet
and the assassins behind it
were abetted
by the same zionist evil aforethought
at work today
in Palestine
is not repeat not
the real topic of the day
James Jesus Angleton
a powerful Mossad asset
within the CIA
had the ear of Allen Dulles
and the nuclear bomb hungry
Pentagon brass
with the motive
and opportunity
to delete a US president
who wanted to inspect
the hidden fissile material installations
in Israel
as long as the zionist dry rot
spreading through our state
for so long
is not surgically addressed
thousands of Palestinian children
will be victims
of unmentioned magic bullets
targeting their heads and hearts –
bullets
unexamined by any commission
house assassination hearing
or investigation –
the silent bullets killing
the future leaders
perhaps even the President
of a Free Palestine
(c) Julia Wright April 11, 2025. All Rights Reserved.
GIVING BIRTHDAY
it is my birthday –
the kitchen clock stopped ticking
while i was asleep
it is my birthday –
i am reminded
that next times
are becoming scarce
it is my birthday –
it has not stopped raining
so where are the soaring eagles
keeping safe?
it is my birthday –
i have not stopped writing
since this morning
to prepare Mumia’s birthday
so he can blow out
from behind his bars
the candles lit
on campuses
throughout the world
(c) Julia Wright. April 15, 2025. All Rights Reserved to Mumia Abu-Jamal whose birthday is on April 24, 2025
UNDERGROUND BOOKROAD
taking good note of Trump’s recent banning of books in all the libraries connected to the Pentagon – including but not only my father’s
in tribute to the 2012 Chicano/a Librotraficante movement that created underground libraries. Librotraficante Movement liberates books – again
and to comrade Gloria Rubac who accompanied their movement
in encouragement to Sister Regina Amina Woods whose youtube podcast keeping our books alive is pioneering
to Mumia’s book-hunger on his birthday
the late African scholar
Hampate Ba
said:
when an elder dies
a library burns
banning our books
is stealing the land
of our souls
banning our books
is
seeking the death penalty
against our dreams
and reams
and reams
of hope
banning our books
creates legions of ghosts,
resurrecting
our bravest ideas
where they were lying fallow,
rekindling tales
the Poet gave his life
to pass on
banned books will
roam the land
and
we will fly a kite
for each title shot down
banning our books
will only bring back
the moveable feast
of our lists –
the prison list of George Jackson’s books
the list of books Richard Wright took with him to France
the dictionary where Malcolm X learned the language of the master
the same dictionary banned
from prison libraries today –
lists and lists
of books to be salvaged and treasured
for all they do not know
the uneducated oligarchs can be book banners –
we will fly colorful banners billowing
with the titles of our assaulted books
because we know
that the next step after banning
our bodies
and
our books
will be
to ban
one by one
the words we leave behind
because we know
the aim
is to reduce us
to silence
but
the illiterates in power
will not find the bloodchoke
to make us say:
I can’t write
(c) Julia Wright. April 19, 2025. All Rights Reserved to Mumia Abu-Jamal
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