Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Senseless

Senseless

I have a hard time putting things into boxes.
When I move I have full garbage bags labeled DO NOT THROW AWAY.
I have as hard a time with mental boxes-->categories-->gestalts.
I can put dog in a small furry animal that barks box,
but what can I do with 16 yr old kills my 28 yr old Syrian student, Jamal?
28- Not old enough to have been his father, but at least a brother
an uncle a mentor a teacher if life made sense
If 57 choices were made that weren't
and 3 that were, weren't.
I hope he gets tried as an adult
because I'm trying to believe
children are too innocent to kill
or die.
God, it's true
I just realized
I have a stuffed camel called Jamal.
Clarence, my friend stationed in Iraq, sent me 3 yrs ago.
Now Clarence's son is in Iraq
training Iraqi soldiers
how not to get killed.
The son's name is Tony. He's 29.
The killer's name is Eric.
He is somebody's son,
probably somebody's brother,
maybe somebody's nephewunclecousin friend student
He's a child.
I have 2 stuffed camels, Jamal,
and one from Camel Rock Casino on Tesuque Pueblo,
where I met Clarence,
who taught me how to say I love you
in Tewa,
where I learned that I can understand
that I need to understand
what I don't understand
that I can't understand.
Is there a word for this plurality
in Tewa?
in English?
in Arabic?

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