Kuona Halab
بلح yaani
sikiliza huzuni hii
sikiliza uharibifu huu
ingia humo fujo gizani
kuona halab
kuona aleppo
ona dunia ambayo
imebakia kimya
usimezie machozi yako
wala fungue macho
kwa kifo kali kinachotokea
kinaendelea bila mwisho.
[2016]
Won’t it end?/Annyae da?
we are digging we are trying to get them out. they are graved. exploded. there is no crane and no plane to pick them up. just hands gripping with grief, these broken blocks one by one.
yɛfunuu yɛtwe wɔn afirim. wɔmu akɔ da mu. wɔmu apaepaeɛ.
bibiaa nni hɔ ɛtumi fa wɔn ɛtumi tu fa ɔsoro ɛtumi ɛma wɔn so. ɛnoaa no sɛ yɛde yɛnsa ne y’awreɛho, yɛtaseɛ saa abuboɔ yi mmaako mmaako.
[2016]
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen “at least 20 people killed as barrel bombs are dropped on Aleppo” [2016]
Construction works ::مكتيب Bashar himself wanted the land.
baada ya damu, baada ya giza, baadaye baadaye. tutaziweka wapi?
[2016]
what is there to be had in our bloodshed, that you kill us in so many of our houses?
[2016]
open wound
slumped & polite night exhausted what did I do wrong
boy held his own hands he looked at his hand he put them down bloody leaking hand red smear the chair should I say something oh no put them down rub them off put them down put them down me?
ouch. painful. dusty stolen flop stop no resistance i’m sorry boy held his own hands
dungeon slanted swollen hide it gone bowl head cowered crown heart breaking shame on me boy held his own hands
[2022]
body parts strewn everywhere in rotten smell of death and burning there is a grove for you you dirty, bloody heap of objects chaotically arranged strewn bodies everywhere smeared for you from me, a grime-slime calcified (an offering).
[2016]
ukitazama-tazama
ukabakia kimya-kimya unaunga mikono
na vita sababu kuna vita
vya kupoteza watu
vya kutokumbuka
vya kutembeza kifo
vya kurekebisha kumbukumbu lake
[2016]
Brutalist architecture
Australia’s Operative
Holed out
Drained and dirty
Russia’s works
Turkish baths
David Cameron
“Murderers and thieves”
To purge the land & To Round them up
Gaining the land partition peace talks modern-day genocide
ISIS white member crew economic growth purge them
“Where is Islam?” nothing but Christianity.
[2023]
Refuge-seeker
I see them in syria, bahrain, libya, somalia, yemen and pakistan congo, sudan, egypt & language falls away & [violence] becomes an enumeration. war is not so far to reach me and you by degrees of two.
[2016]
Khan Sheikhoun
you are completely alert but unable to breathe in or out.
my life has changed. I cannot sleep. I haven't slept for days not even for a minute I wanted to throw up. I fell unconscious, I made peace with sarin gas this war
I will go to every neighborhood yet unbombed saying:
“My children will become birds in heaven.” [2016]
Who bombed them? It is being investigated. [2023]
War crimes
First-Person Shooter excitement.
[2023]
Allied Bombers are ready to game: look at the results!
[2023]