solidarity

when Palestine blows up,
Israel’s relative social liberalism reveals
an underlying cult of disassociation from true
xenophobic policy.

when America decides
this will be their messiah,
out of the woodwork comes a rush of temptation
to declare too rebellious the policies and
radical the solutions that
would bring it to the 21st century.

when Canada balks at a solution,
one carried through the expensive and marble-lined halls
of many a national legislative assembly
in many a lesser developed nation,
only to justify the quest for power and
subjugation of the party.

when Zimbabwe’s out of control emancipation
leads to half rations for the rational
who remain within its borders, pleading for a
global response of cookies, milk, chocolates and
the simple bliss of a good life,
in hope.

when Iceland contemplates
that it shouldn’t matter for there to be a precedent
set because of its predicamental collapse
that greed caused the current wash of
“oh boy we’re in trouble, hire a dyke to fix it”
mentality

I fight with solidarity.