Propaganda as justification for action or apathy Poems

Popular Propaganda as justification for action or apathy Poems
if we need to flatten the plain field, lets flatten the hole thing
by atef ayadi

the field is already flat.
they made sure of that.
one horror to justify the next.
a child’s hand to sell a bomb.
a flat, eternal now.

you call it archaic. this beheading.
this bone-deep, familiar script.
but the archaism is in us.
the old brain in the new tank.

......

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Recent Propaganda as justification for action or apathy Poems
if we need to flatten the plain field, lets flatten the hole thing
by atef ayadi

the field is already flat.
they made sure of that.
one horror to justify the next.
a child’s hand to sell a bomb.
a flat, eternal now.

you call it archaic. this beheading.
this bone-deep, familiar script.
but the archaism is in us.
the old brain in the new tank.

......

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