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The face of Qana	A
Pale like that of Jesus	B
and the sea breeze of April	C
Rains of blood and tears	D
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They entered Qana stepping on our charred bodies	E
Raising a Nazi flag	F
in the lands of the South	G
and rehearsing its stormy chapters	H
Hitler cremated them in the gas chambers	H
and they came after him to burn us	B
Hitler kicked them out of Eastern Europe	I
and they kicked us out of our lands	J
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They entered Qana	A
Like hungry wolves	K
Putting to fire the house of the Messiah	A
Stepping on the dress of Hussain	L
and the dear land of the South	G
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Blasted Wheat Olive trees and Tobacco	M
and the melodies of the nightingale	N
Blasted Cadmus in his bark	O
Blasted sea and the gulls	P
Blasted even hospitals	P
even nursing moms	Q
and schoolboys	R
Blasted the beauty of the Southern women	S
and murdered the gardens of the honeyed eyes	T
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We saw the tears in Ali's eyes	T
We heard his voice as he prayed	U
under the rain of bloody skies	T
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Who ever will write about the history of Qana	A
Will inscribe in his parchments	T
This was the second Karbala	N
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Qana unveiled what was hidden	S
We saw America	A
Wearing the old coat of a Jewish Rabbi	V
Leading the slaughter	W
Blasting our children for no reason	S
Blasting our wives for no reason	S
Blasting our trees for no reason	S
Blasting our thoughts for no reason	S
Has it been decreed in her constitution	S
She America mistress of the world	X
In Hebrew that she should humble us al Arab	Y
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Has it been decreed that each time a ruler in America	A
wants to win the presidency that he should kill us	T
We al Arab	Y
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We waited for one Arab to come	Z
pull this thorny prick from our necks	T
We waited for single Qureishite	X
A single Hashemite	X
A single Don Quixote	X
A single local hero for whom they did not shave the moustache	A2
We waited for a Khalid Tariq or Antara	W
We were eaten chatter while engaged in vain talk	B2
They sent a fax	T
We read its text	X
after paying tribute	X
and the end of the slaughter	W
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What does Israel fear from our cries	T
What does she fear from our faxes	T
The Jihad of the fax is the weakest of Jihads	T
It is a single text we write	X
for all the martyrs who left	X
and all the martyrs those who will come	Z
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What does Israel fear from Ibn al Muqaffa'	C2
Jarir and Farazdaq	B2
And Khansa throwing her poems at the gates of the cemetery	W
What does she fear if we burn tires	T
Sign communiqu s	T
And destroy shops	T
And she knows that we have never been kings of war	W
But were kings of chatters	T
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What does Israel fear	W
from the beating of the drums	T
the tearing of clothes	T
and the scratching of cheeks	T
What does she fear	W
when she hears	T
the stories of Ad and Thamud	X
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We are in national comma	A
We did not receive	C2
Since the times of conquest	X
a single mail	N
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We are a people of made of dough	X
The more Israel increases in her killing and terrorism	Z
the more we increase in idleness and coldness	T
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A Smothering Dominion	S
A regional dialect that increases in ugliness	T
and a green union that grows in isolation	S
Summer trees growing barren	S
And borders whenever the whim strikes	T
erase other borders	T
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Israel should slaughter us and why not	X
She should erase Hisham Ziyad and ar Rashid and why not	X
Why not and the Banu Taghlab lusting after their women	S
Why not and Banu Mazen lusting after their slave boys	T
Why not and Banu Adnan dropping their trousers to their knees	T
debating necking and the lips	T
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What should Israel fear from some of al Arab	Y
When they became Yehuda	A

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