The Zionist Tragedy

Michael Peach

(a sound bite)

A Great Dane
With the psyche of a Jack Russell
Is bad news
For the neighbourhood.

Jerusalem
12 April 2002

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

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and