POEMS by Gideon Polya

“One day in the life of Barack Obama” by Gideon Polya (first published in Gideon Polya, "One day in the life of Barack Obama", MWC News, 12 February 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/videos/594-one-day-in-the-life-of-barack-obama.html ).

Hey, hey, USA,

How many kids did you kill today?

Deliciously dreaming, half awake, half asleep,

Slowly he stretches and ventures a peep.

Marbled ablutions, dental spit,

Even an emperor has to shit.

Yes suh, no suh, a dusky maid

Serves bacon, eggs and marmalade.

Versaci-clad, elegant, the yes we can King

Emerges with flunkies with hand grips and spring.

Between limousine comforts arises the doubt

That it’s sure getting hotter for the Man with no clout.

Hard men, worse women, and power of state

Consign billions to mayhem and hunger, called Fate.

Feasts, entertainments, beauty and swain,

Thence ruling the World yields to slumber again.

Hey, hey, USA,

How many kids did you kill today?

Answer: 1,000.

Gideon Polya, 13 February 2010

And then they stole the falafel by Gideon Polya (first published in Gideon Polya, “Palestinian Genocide poem: “And then they stole the falafel”” , Countercurrents, 31 May 2020: https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/palestinian-genocide-poem-and-then-they-stole-the-falafel/ ).

The violent, lying Zionists stole

All of the ancient land of Palestine,

Three cities, hundreds of villages and towns,

An ancient land ethnically cleansed.

They stole the human rights of Palestinians,

Of Exiled Palestinians, Occupied Palestinians,

And of Israeli Palestinians living as oppressed

Third Class Citizens under race-based laws.

They stole the lives of two million Palestinians,

A hundred thousand dying violently, and

Over two million dying from imposed deprivation

In a Palestinian Holocaust and Palestinian Genocide.

They stole the futures of millions of children

Abusively imprisoned without charge or trial

In refugee camps, West Bank ghettoes,

And the blockaded Gaza Concentration Camp.

They stole the future of all the World’s children

Under threat from Israeli and other nuclear terrorism,

And stole free speech in Zionist-subverted

America, Britain, Canada and Australia.

They stole an ancient religion, Judaism,

Subverting humanism for evil state terrorism,

And the actual history of the non-Semitic Ashkenazim

And of other Jewish peoples around the world.

They stole the very name of Israel,

The ancient name of Torah-observant Jews,

And the religious language of Hebrew,

In the interests of Anglo-American imperialism.

They stole the ancient city of Al Quds,

The third holiest city for Muslims,

And backed America in the US-imposed, post-9-11

Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide.

They stole the Jewish Israeli heritage

Of Berber, Arabic and Yiddish language,

And with evil America helped destroy

Aramaic-speaking societies from Palestine to Iraq.

They stole the flag of Apartheid Israel

From the innocent Greeks, with the Star of David

Stolen from anti-Zionist Orthodox Judaism;

Their national anthem they stole from Smetana.

They stole the reputations of anti-racist Jews,

And of all those opposed to genocide and Apartheid.

They stole the name of a hill facing the Mount of Olives,

Renaming it for genocidal psychopath Herzl.

And then they stole the falafel.

Gideon Polya, 31 May 2020