The Zionist Syndrome

Michael Peach

So that some indulgent Zionist
Can see his donation has been spent,
Israeli politicians pave a cherished park
And engrave his name upon the stone.

Jerusalem
28 November 1995

If I again could walk, For peace I’d use my

The milk and cream of human kindness ease The bullish

Despite the ATVs and motorbikes That shake my fragile balance

Like all the kindest men’s in history, Will’s anima was

In his sonnets Will’s narrator loves a manPlatonically; for he’s

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And