Poem: Tell me now

'She is five and she’s taking no hostages...'

She is five and she’s taking no hostages.

She wants to know why the sparrows die; 

why her baby brother sleeps with sewage.

She wants to know why Bethlehem‘s 

rebels aren’t given a massage. Why

no one has combed the hair of the dead 

child or made her mother a cup of nettle 

tea with lemon. Tell me now she says.

The poem of her eyes unrelenting.

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