New York Protest, 2/15/03

for Kahlil Sumad, Iraqi citizen

 

 

New Yorkers on Columbus Circle

startled by backpacked protesters

congregating on doorsteps,

like the winter winds

weaving in between police,

with their wooden barriers, black ribbon’d lapels

for fallen comrades of yesterday

 

Charicatured banners

of swastika-faced Bush, Bloomberg

displayed for throngs of cameras,

their heavy clicks and pops court

the euro-propaganda machine,

but the cameras don't click

and the bulbs don’t pop

for Kahlil Sumad on 58th Street,

who asks politely and without protest

"I am Iraqi, will you please remove Saddam"

 

 

copyright 2003, Frank Messina

 

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