PALESTINE is a woman. / a child in a thobe. olive pits in / my hands. the tatreez / on my grandmother's scarf. / is thirty-four palestinians killed. / we thought the house / was empty. is a stranger living / in my great-grandfather’s home, eating the pomegranates he once planted.
i remember i genuinely experienced the tetris effect back then cuz i used to play every single day after school + on the weekends... i would dream about tetris too... i'd play it when i zone out and with my eyes closed...