Intifada

Michael Peach

Every now and again
The elephant in the room
Breaks his chains
And, until subdued
By his briefly awakened
Captors,
Goes on the rampage.

Jerusalem
13 May 2021

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve

Whereas the good and loving One God Endows all humans

Though for many reasons The “two-state solution” Is now dead,