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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Rhys Langston
Rap
Inkydew the Companion
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Rhys Langston Podell
Lyrics
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petrol and vegetables
don’t airstrike the messenger
the pillar box
obstructs the view
caravan, aid unscheduled
prayer reduced to etudes
siren songs in hospitals
does the blood dry?
is there texture the news?
the far off minds blank
and their bellies full
of petrol and vegetables
call the state rep
who the lobby moves
withhold the wages
and the morals, too
who’s last on earth
first in the queue?
see what hope is there for a future
where live-streamed dead
fails to rustle or move?
atop this holy land
marked with treads of tanks and
an empire’s platitudes
the rainwater uncollected
washing hands in false equivalence
made to mock wudu
I say what would Theodore Herzl say
to the Tolstoy of the Zulus?
what would Saul bellow beneath the concrete
of Gazan children’s tombs?
לֹא יִשָּׂא גוֹי אֶל גוֹי חֶרֶב לֹא יִלְמְדוּ עוֹד מִלְחָמָה.
(nation shall not lift sword
against nation, you shall
unlearn these ways of war)
it ain’t no Lut Gholein in Golan Heights
transubstantiating to stay a while
til septic water turns honey wine
and as the settlers evict the goalposts
hiding behind courts carved into Mount Zion
(free Palestine)
powering forward the North Atlantic trade of
Oslo set to Biblical standard time
(free Palestine)
and the dust settles
on the fragile Zionist mind
the river to sea’s a defensive key
cut by their dotted lines
(free Palestine)
pathos is crude oil gaslit
fluorescence on Hebron
with alleged precedence heaven sent
as these colonists drop geography lessons
from their fighter jets
the politics stand in for testimony
to puff white phosphorous
atop the witness
so when public opinion turns a chemical weapon
the dialect of the unheard is
a forgotten semitic
the world bleeds
what use is a metaphor
when genocide takes to task the medics?
לֹא יִשָּׂא גוֹי אֶל גוֹי חֶרֶב לֹא יִלְמְדוּ עוֹד מִלְחָמָה.
(nation shall not lift sword
against nation, you shall
unlearn these ways of war)
Written by: Rhys Langston Podell
