The following poem was rejected by The Humanist magazine because it did not meet editor-in-chief Jennifer Barda's "editorial needs." How odd for a purported human rights advocate! Where to send such a poem? Well, I published it in the current issue of The American Dissident, #37. So, that's where.
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A Post-Mortem Poem
For Maren Ueland and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen
Their naivete is nothing less than breathtaking.
—Bruce Bawer
The silence of the journalists astounds
—the free press is a bullshit slogan,
bellowed by enchained ideologues,
blind to the horrors hollered into their ears…
While hunting again in vain for news on the story,
not an iota to be found in the New York Times
or Washington Post or Boston Globe or or or,
just the echo of Khashoggi ad nauseam and of course
more Hogg news—the high school kid
with the loudmouth soon to be at Harvard.
And this morning, I read another account of the horror, but
only in the alt-press, while the Times published Jen Gunter’s
dopey vagina crap: “One year ago I wrote about my vagina
and men’s opinions of it. Things have not improved.” Wow.
Offended I am… by the hypocrites and fluff writers of the press!
Offended I am… by the purposeful cecity of poets and artists!
Offended I am… by the CAIR muslims infiltrating in sheep’s clothing!
Offended I am… by the money that easily turns eyes so goddamn blind!
“You need to see that woman lying on her stomach,” wrote
an unmoderated voice, “after having been gang raped,
not moving or speaking presumably too terrified and emotionally
ruined to even whimper and then crying out in pure agony
as they rip her throat out with a knife.”
But I have not yet watched; I’m not ready to have that in my skull.
“You need to see them turn her over on her back and put a foot
on her head to keep her still as they saw her head off while
her hand weakly tries to grasp for help…”
The journalists have not yet watched either, but they’re journalists!
And the journalists have decided to erase the event, for it might
soil and tarnish the “religion of peace,” to quote dear ex-leader.
For those innocent and fragile young women, butchered by Islamists,
we must watch, all of us must watch, we must witness the last breath
and not let it be hidden from the public eye by the overseers of society.
And so, I watch; and so, I watch, and so, will you watch? Will college students
like Hogg watch? Will the politicians like Obama watch? Will the professors watch?
Will the journalists finally watch? And if not, then they are not really journalists,
but rather lowly propagandists pushing Pravda platitudes.
The silence of the journalists astounds
—the free press is a bullshit slogan
bellowed by enchained ideologues
blind to the horrors hollered into their ears…
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NB: Humans devoid of compassion, devoid of soul, do exist. They are here:
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