I wrote a rather more restrained letter than I felt when signing CAIR's petition to my members of Congress to intervene for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. I did not use profanity or recall the Palmer Raids. I did invoke American ideals and identify myself as a Jew, since the notion that I should thus cheer the stripping of civil liberties on the grounds of pro-Palestinian activism is revolting and at least two ways racist. I hope the federal order to halt his deportation is effective. This country became something of a specialist in the vanishing of detainees in my lifetime and the Overton window has these jagged holes punched in it.
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- 1: I had no inkling of just how far the plates of our continents would crack
- 2: And we're on the right side of the ground where they bury the bones
- 3: I'm not related to anyone
- 4: You are a case of the vapours
- 5: Now I feel like Kafka with a bad migraine
- 6: For when the heart's a sinking stone
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- 8: All the trees carve shards of light
- 9: Reflections coming through the radio, the telephone, the TV
- 10: I want what's true
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