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Poem: Tell me now
'She is five and she’s taking no hostages...'
by Dana Littlepage Smith
20th September 2024
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.
