Israel, founded on religious delusion, bare theft
and the barbaric iron will to smite,
oh, such a deep apartheid,
occupying the West Bank
settles principal hilltops with rare views first,
mugging land, setting hordes of goats
against the Arab olive groves, ring-bark 'em dead,
each house a lookout facing out, a big ring spying,
red roofs, all painted the same standard color,
air-force will recognize frequency, through any glitch,
the angel of death will pass over.
Not just a wall to appall, but fences, blockades, corridors
ugly lines and colors of prefabricated economy,
checkpoints, corrals, gates, that
open a corridor and close both ends,
hold women and children trying to re-provision
for random hours, penned up like cattle.
Urban intrusions are fought with bulldozers and wall drills.
Demolition the weapon of choice.
It's all an architecture of destruction.
Mordor today, where the thorns might grieve,
if they had a heart;
where too many hearts have been turned to stone.
