nose the size of a
ripened pear shriveled
sun dried & sandblasted
short black hairs
a wool coat brushy hair
dune wrinkle lines
each doubted expression
a cartoon caricature
missing teeth thirsting for water
a mosque's tower in background view or
an ad for Pepsi Cola
Yelling always
it was Sunni out
the crowd of Shi'ites
carried four blackened away
a final hajj
from Karada neighborhood
to Page A8 one dollar.
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*or war poem through fingers and cultural lenses of a twenty year old white upper middle class american male at school on the computer his parents bought for him.
2)EDUCATION
Sunni Muslims are the orthodox
branch of Islam whose adherents
believe that Muhammad's successor
should be elected.
They comprise 85% of all Muslims.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Shi'ite Muslims are the
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa branch of Islam
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whose adherents hold that
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ali, Muhammad's cousin & aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa son-in-law, was
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Muhammad's successor.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Found in Iran Iraq
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Afghanistan Pakistan.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
3)PERSPECTIVE
news three days
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa away
curfew cooled sectarian violence
do not draw a picture
do not say a name
at least 75 Iraqis
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (no u after q)
Mahdi AK-47 years old
379 people and rising
90% of Arab
population are dependent
on water that originates in
non-Arab lands.
numbers mean nothing.
words mean less.
car=bomb
Askariya Shrine in Samarra
a golden explosion
the CNN predicted civil war.
1 comment:
Drunken post:
the multiple part serial poems, as exhibited in the work of erin mouré, are fun and interesting in certain ways, but there are other ways that mouré uses the form to complicate things. for example, thematically, her poems dont all relate to one another. in fact, one part of a poem might not really have anything, topically, to do with the others, and so on. what makes her poems most interesting to me are the seemingly random groupings of images and things, but they all bear just enough resemblence to one another to lead the reader down that particular path to the proper understanding of the whole piece. that probably makes no sense at all in the way that ive just explained it, so heres a simpler means of illustration: concentrate not on thematic emphasis, but instead on common recurring images and even specific elements of images. the silver lining is what ties her poems and pieces of poems together, not the larger things like theme and form. it would be more of a free and liberating form to engage things on those levels, relating things to one another with the thin strings of implication rather than the firm bindings of elemental characteristics.
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