Edward W. Said
Vintage Books
2000
Ten years to the day.
What shall I do?
Does this rock
throw rocks,
just like you?
Hate the academy?
Kill the anatomy?
Behold, this daughter of destroyer.
Behold, this paternal knight.
Behold, this fatherly right:
he wants to protectively hold
from the shelter of the cold
for One Thousand And One
Arabian Nights.
The colour of his face
reminds him of his place.
Guilty for being white?
And yet ...
"I wish that I may,
I wish that I might."
Wish no more.
He wants your Roar.
So, take your stand!
You see, not even Moses
entered into The Promised Land.
For the struggle, he struggles.
For the dead, he lowers his empty head.
"For Said," he said, "I will kill"
as he swallows the suicidal pill:
simply based on the roll of the dice
he Now knows Apocalyptic Paradise.
What shall I do?
Does this rock
throw rocks,
just like you?
Hate the academy?
Kill the anatomy?
Behold, this daughter of destroyer.
Behold, this paternal knight.
Behold, this fatherly right:
he wants to protectively hold
from the shelter of the cold
for One Thousand And One
Arabian Nights.
The colour of his face
reminds him of his place.
Guilty for being white?
And yet ...
"I wish that I may,
I wish that I might."
Wish no more.
He wants your Roar.
So, take your stand!
You see, not even Moses
entered into The Promised Land.
For the struggle, he struggles.
For the dead, he lowers his empty head.
"For Said," he said, "I will kill"
as he swallows the suicidal pill:
simply based on the roll of the dice
he Now knows Apocalyptic Paradise.
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| Edward W. Said (1935-2003) |
Sources
Edward W. Said. Out Of Place: A Memoir. Vintage Books. 2000
Hany-Abu Assad. Paradise Now. Warner Independent Pictures. 2005.
