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Haikus
my inaccurate indulgence in this irresistible poetic form
You Know Who You Are
You who stayed silent merely to keep your jobs //
While bombs kept taking lives of Gazan kids //
Paid for by your own tax income - blood money //
Endorsed by your fancy corporate house Nazis
Covid Reflections
Five and a half million gone, several more loom
Afflicting beyond boundaries, or calendars of moon
Apocalyptic premonitions, dissent in very being
Suppressed rage, rising age, every breath competing
New World Disorders
Some may say the fateful twenty twenty shall too be gone
And with it, the curses of Covid and its causes unknown
As though magically, or through divine interventions
Maybe just a happy coincidence, calendar's fascination
Replacing Resolutions
god blessed land of opulent nationalists
harboring disaffection for "illegal aliens"
An Ode to the Unfinished
like the unfinished manuscripts
unsung songs
leaderless movements
incomplete news…
Some Issues (Trans.)
Let us talk of the nation’s tribulations
Talk of the colonial power impositions
Why bother with heaven’s splendors
Let us talk of the hell we possess
Divided We Fall
showering the wealth of rhetorics
constructing the highway of dreams
preaching love, preaching hate,
after a while, love-hate…
Meritocratic Jury
Conspiracy of the galaxy
Coming together of forces
To offer them higher birth
infinite inborn meritocracy…
Silent Majority
First they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Pakistani.
Of Incidental Revolutions
Irreparable losses of beloved poets and thinkers too
Baraka, Seeger, Stuart Hall, Marquez and Maya Angelou
No Thanks(giving)
Kill the dissenters
Land of freedoms
Celebrate survivors
Build more prisons
Let Ourselves Prevail
Where the homeless are not recruited to clean nuclear mess
Working class emphatically organize, not rescued under duress
False Accusers
Scripted tales of selective valor, courage, and heroism
In your books, virtues of forgiveness, vices of hatred
Only per your convenience, the mythical fanaticism
Rarely invoked, hardly rebuked, and never addressed.
Socialist Realism
To consume the books that tell the lies,
Or to drop out of institutional favors.
Between emerging heroes or misfits –
Have the choice to swear patriotism
Sleeping Child
…and she will nod her head,
her empty slate of a mind
That will be overwritten with lies after
Lies after lies about who is a terrorist
And who is a decent human being.
Global Spring?
Yet Sandy storms still, Sandy Hook gun cultures kill
Frisk and search racist, disempowered cannot resist
Islamophobic Youtube reel, West’s warmongering shill
Obama’s growing kill-list, the American draconic fist
Two Terrorists
The unfinished business
Of ending terrorism
Find itself done
Now that you are gone