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Yvonne Green Silent Blessing |
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War Poem There are no heroic deaths in war, if you round people up they cry like stuck pigs, if you run with a bayonet you wet your pants if you kill with a drone, computer games make you crazy when your kids play them. For evil not to triumph good people need do nothing but advocate, negotiate, react, be diplomatic, watchful, mindful. They need to listen, hear, answer not placate, resist not fight, determine not dominate, be dutiful not expectant. And ramparts will give way to borders, wars will be averted before they grow tired, seed poppies, make mounds, cinders of macheted limbs, empty boy's bowels, girl's wombs. 2011 How to beat your wife "If the husband wants to use beatings to treat his wife Yehjib, yehjib, yehjib Allah yakuna al mama lahab never, never, never, do it in front of the children. It must remain between him and her. The husband must not cause her to bleed. The husband must not break any bones. He should avoid her face and other sensitive parts of her body. If a person violates these rules he violates the rules of Allah. He cannot do whatever he wants with his wife because she is not his merchandise. Even if the wife forgives her husband it doesn't mean Allah will on judgement day" So I heard speak Sheik Abdullah aal Mukhmoud for Bahraini State T.V. on 20th June 2005. 2009 Silent Blessing Haven't you done a good job of raising English children shh you whisper isn't it better we say nothing that way they may find out for themselves, shh you whisper, as softly as your grandparents went to their graves 2010 |