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Kill the Families

Photo courtesy of DCI Palestine

 

When I set off for Columbia University

to become a foreign correspondent,

to cover wars and peacemaking, famine,

 

floods, murders, kidnappings, larceny

on a global scale, I never imagined

that a government would seek

 

vengeance on my family, bombing

my spouse, daughter and son to ash.

I never could have conceived

 

that one day, while alive still

on this great old planet

with its ancient human families,

 

that I would see my colleague

suffer punishment by his nemesis,

a government engaged in carpet bombing

 

of neighborhoods and precision strikes

of journalists’ families among other

collateral associates of the pesky

 

and uncompromising truth seekers,

the head of Al Jazeera’s bureau

in Gaza and fellow unfortunate members

 

of the fourth estate whose wall

of lamentations now includes family

members pulverized in retribution.

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