13.1.09

Never this broken

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger
I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
not really.
even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
never this broken.



Suheir Hammad
in First Writing Since - Post 9/11, 2001

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