ein Gedicht von Raj Kanth, er hat es nach einer REUTERS-Meldung für Aaron Bushnell geschrieben:
Aaron Bushnell, RIP
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Aaron Bushnell: an active-duty Air Force airman with San Antonio ties set himself on fire and died Sunday in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest Israel’s war against Hamas.
‘I Will No Longer be Complicit in Genocide’: U.S. Soldier Dies of Self-Immolation in Protest of War on Gaza – ScheerPost
Bushnell also made a Facebook post the morning before he set himself on fire. “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now,” it read.
(HaBE schon versucht, Rajs Gedicht auf Deutsch nachzudichten. Der Versuch dauert noch an.)
It is a
dying
culture
wears such
sordid
signs
*
What was
he
doing
midst
such heartless
hinds
these
exsanguinated
corpses
these
dun savage
minds?
*
Here
was
the rarest
a soldier
so
blue
bearing
a living
conscience
like a
soldier
true
*
As
blood-drenched
Blinken
and Genocide
Joe
peddle
petty
travesties
pretend
not to
know
he did
the dying
to countermand
the lying
he will
haunt
their histories
wherever
they
go
*
Heroic
in his
martyrdom
and witness
to their
knavery
for all
the world
to know
*
These are
the
prodromes
in these
benighted
times
it is a
dying
culture
bears such
sordid
signs