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the revolutionary love thing

I don’t go in much for the revolutionary love thing
which seems very christian to me

the way they talk about it now, asking the brutalized
to love for our distant sake

200,000 dead. more. you want them
to be moved only by love?

we don’t have to feel good all the time!
get comfortable with hate

there’s no way yet to love the oppressed and not
hate their killers. if that still worries you

think love’s not so far away:
in a colonial situation, to fight the enemy

even to kill him, is an act of love
Che said: imperialism turns men into beasts

whoever can do what the colonizer does
has abdicated his humanity

has turned himself into an animal
to kill a colonial soldier is like killing a werewolf

somewhere there’s mercy for the man who’ll appear
when the fangs shrivel and the claws fall away

a good israeli soldier would defect
a good israeli soldier would desert
a good israeli soldier would kill himself

he would annihilate himself as an israeli soldier
if a good israeli soldier exists and can’t do that

he’s praying tonight
red triangle, find me soon

 

 


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