Jack Hirschman – The Children
By Guest Post • Jan 12th, 2009 at 15:53 • Category: Children's Corner, Internet and Communication, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism
This tremendous curse against the murderers of Gaza was written by New York born poet Jack Hirschman, who has spent a life on the barricades against the establishment, and whose work is a unique blend of Marxism and Jewish mysticism.
Jack Hirschman is the best known alternative poet of the United States. Unlike his beat generation colleagues and friends – for example Allen Ginsberg – he chose political revolution over the pre-hippy lifestyle.
Hirschman's poetry is much more than an outburst of righteous indignation.
It is an original blend between blue collar blue collar American speech, violent, yet thirsting for justice, and a reflection on the Qabbalah, which in its turn draws its inspiration on a merge between the Jewish and the Neoplatonic tradition. Comment by Miguel Martinez.
- THE CHILDREN
- all over will remember
- their legs their arms,
- the amputated spaces
- will be Nothing [1] branded
- into their little souls,
- never to forget, Israel
- you shattered their vessels [2]
- with your gunfire, shit on
- the word, said fuck you
- to the fetus in the womb.
- You – not they – pissed on
- your own wholly unholy
- tetragramaton, its letters
- a fraud and a fake.
- I wish I could feed you
- hand grenades in your mug,
- I want to stuff dead children
- into your eyes, lovers of learning lies.
- May selah [3] be broken
- in your mouth, may amen
- never find chapter and verse,
- may your food turn into
- the gangrenous limbs of the
- children you've felled,
- those little trees of sparks.[4]
- You've killed David over
- and over, you star of death.
[1] The ayin of the Qabbalah.
[2] A reference to the klipot or "husks" of the Qabbalah.
[3] A reference to a Jewish prayer, as is amen here
[4] The "sparks" of the Qabbalah.
Source, Miguel Martinez's blog Kelebek http://kelebek.splinder.com/post/19555677/Maledetti+gli+assassini+di+Gaz
Jack Hirschman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hirschman
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