10.2  | 

Salma

If Palestine was the size of Canada

they would have put you on reservations far off in the bush

away

so they didn't have to look at you

didn't have to see any of your number

didn't have to see the suicide of your children

After all they are only brown

after all

Let you die there dirt poor

without any clean water to drink or bathe in and then say don't look at those

dirty Palestinians

They are poor and dirty

in the land god gave to us

and the land god gave to you

they say god gave to them

as if god is only books and bullets

Our lives are unpalatable to them

and then they claim they had nothing to do with it

It was God

Suheir

It was always God