Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Their Sacrifice

Their sacrifice
and ours
What was it for?
Why did your daughter and my son
have to die?
Now we've flown away
Why are the daughters we abandoned
Again caged?
Those men with guns
Why are they and their God
so afraid
of these women and girls
Alive
but erased?
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A POSITIVE ACT WITH A POSITIVE MESSAGE

In shared global security self-interest, perhaps a coalition of India, USA, Pakistan, UK and others (some EU nations, perhaps even Russia would like to display itself in a positive light) with a UN mandate for Afghanistan to be designated a Global Protectorate aimed at saving 50%+ of Afghans (women and girls) from enslavement, would be a not so far fetched ethical action.

 

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Both Collocutors Disabled By Cloth

I tweeted this question
In twenty eleven
It got no response

Still the question remains
The answer clear and clearly terrifying
For those who impose the clothing

The question is:
Concerning the human race
What is the function of the human face?

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini…/english/collocutor

 

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Jihad Jihad Bring Back Our Girls

And in the end
The great Jihad
Appears to be
Primarily about
The right to have
Women, as slaves,
By day
By night
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Another Word in the Lexicon of Avoidance

Men In gangs
Rape Girls
In a land awash
With ragas
And
"Spirituality"

I distrust that "must
Be OK then" word
Ever self-servingly
Caste

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A Response To The Fight Over Reproductive Rights

“Until men are bound to, determined to and required by law to share equally in the personal, intimate, care and nurturing of their children yes, I believe women have the inalienable right of self-determination in matters of reproduction until the moment before birth.

Without that equality of responsibility and equality in the financial, career and life impact that childbirth brings, I see no reason why men deserve a voice in this.”

. . . Labi Siffre

Birth of an Artist

The family visits The Tate

Through her burqa’ she sees

A reason to change

Her family

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The Tate

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Another Bowl of Slurry From

That Cheeky Charley Heir to the Throne

If it is “precious and sacred” to them
Or you, that is perhaps ok

Though don’t you think female genital
Mutilation, sharia law, the execution of
Apostates (and some other practices)
Should, more than perhaps, demand
A clarion call of “no way!”)

In any event, when anyone attacks
By insisting
Their dishonest and offensive
Claims to "knowledge of god”
Be precious and sacred
To me

I will oppose your
Vacuous regal prose
And them
Vigorously

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