Poem by Charles Frederickson; Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote
Wailing wallflowers obstacles to peace-makers
Illegal collision crash course violations
121 Israeli condemned property colonies
Flagrantly breaching just international laws
Palestinians denied own landscape access
Restrictions imposing tunnel vision underpasses
Unsettled claimants ideologically violence prone
Bullyrag terrorist intimidation granted immunity
Desert blooms with concrete cacti
Prickly security infrastructure missing link
Key water basins springs wells
Confiscated broken promise unnatural resources
UN gambit Old Maid virgins
Domino blanks dicey crapshoot pips
Online gin rummy bingo roulette
Oily pitted olives squeezed dry
“21” hit split double down
Beat the bottom o’ deck double-dealers
BlackJacks or better to open
One-eyed faceless aceless Royal Flush
Unilateral occupation solitaire rhinestone isolation
Misguided missiles perpetuating uncivil wrongs
Crooked green line zigzags drawn
Quicksand sinking allies undermining trust
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