Kaddish¹

And on the eighth day
God created his bloody sore,
the Middle East
Where only the streets
silently
speak of the dead,
where the buttercups
cups, cups are red
from blood,
where bodies are tossed
in oil, oil,
hot hot oil.

Don’t burn your finger God
on the ziz²,
red, red ziz.

Allah-o-Akbar³!

¹Kaddish: Jewish Prayer for the dead
²Ziz: a flower, a cleft or pass, probably that near En-gedi,
which leads up from the Dead Sea in the direction of Tekoa; now Tell Hasasah.
³Allah-o-Akbar: Arabic for God is Great