Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Our holey Land. One side, still consuming food blessed by the priest, While the other is now ingesting grasses and animal feed. Dear people, what have you done to each other? From the first invasion in '48 To the continual rebellions of discontent; Why must all this pass amongst you? Is there no way to at least somehow coexist? Why must you both practice necropolitics-- Holding the bodies of each to bargain, Knowing that you each must bury the dead the same day! Can the claims of belief not be modified, To reach a softer dogma tolerance And perhaps a more realistic and democratic governance? The former horror borne by one group is now transformed, By attempting to right things, into a horror of both. If human history could be redone, how might you rewrite such? Frank Maurer 20 February 2024 0420 Hours.