FRUSTRATED INDIAN

  Today is Jew, and tomorrow is you, my son.   Let me tell you something, my son. I am a Jew. I am a star. I am an Israeli. October 7 is familiar to me. I was born in it, I lived in it, I died in it, and I survived in it in Europe and Israel. I have a long history of experiencing genocides across Europe. I have a long history of blood and tears. It never ended the history of the Holocaust. The Holocaust never leaves me   Let me tell you something, my son. I am a Jew. I am a star. I am an Israeli. Rejection is not new to me. Reduction is not new to me. Repulsion is not new to me. Untouchability is not new to me. Thingification is not new to me. Dehumanization is not new to me. Humiliation is not new to me. Persecution is not new to me. Elimination is not new to me. Sub-human status is not new to me. Rape is not new to me. Blood and tears are not new to me. Denial of the Holocaust is not new to me. Everywhere, there is the den

  Murky Waters   Murky waters have flown from East to West. Humanity is endangered in Western spaces.   Murky waters have trembled from Jihadi spaces. Life is endangered in Israeli spaces.   Long ago, murky waters were ponds and rivers. Murky waters are seas and oceans now.   That is flowing into democratic bodies now. Democratic bodies united with murky waters Endangering Jewish lives now and forever   Murky waters, democratic waters, and knowledge waters flowed together.   Threatening the lives of the most peaceful Jewish ponds   Everywhere murky waters, everywhere democratic waters   Everywhere is masking their skin and ideology. Enchanting their unity in body and mind   Everywhere impure minds, everywhere impure bodies Everywhere Jihadi spaces, everywhere their democratic allies   Murky seas and oceans united with democratic waters Eliminating peaceful ponds   Peaceful ponds are Jewish spaces.   Jewish ponds are isol