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How to make a suicide bomber (Free verse) by Caducus
If I invaded your city
told you how to live,
who to worship
spat on your brothers
would you fight back?
If I punished you
Without proof
By starving your children
And shooting your people
Would you accept it?
If I went on television
Shook the hand which strangled you
The hand with a wedding ring
that killed your pregnant wife
would you honour her memory
by doing nothing?
If it were me
And you destroyed my identity,
Killed my brothers
Criticized my God
Labelled me a terrorist
Decimated my way of life,
Then maybe in my maddening
I would strap a bomb to my chest
Walk in to Starbucks
And blow myself to smithereens.
To be tomorrows news
After the silicone model
On page 4 labelled scum
With no reason to say why I did it.
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