Darfur/Darfur

July 13, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Bastille Day, or the national holiday of France, which is celebrated on July 14^th.

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A political poem about genocide in Darfur containing two opposing points of view about whether to intervene in such a catastrophe:

Darfur's another test of whether we

Are ready to become a sovereign world,

Restraining with state violence a state

From genocide and other crimes of hate,

Unleashing thunderbolts from heaven hurled

Right through the savage heart of sovereignty.

Dirty truths devour clean designs,

A process that turns dreams to spit-out bones.

Remember to be wary of the good,

For what one does is rarely what one would,

Uniting love with skulls heaped up like stones,

Reading story books with snakes for spines.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

July 13: Darfur/Darfur