“It’s not about feeling guilty, it’s about feeling human.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“You should be more disgusted at
Churchill and Columbus than Hitler,
the fact that you are not,
shows how ludicrously little you're
aware of humanitarian disasters.
Palestine is the new Poland,
yet hypocrites only shout for Ukraine.
Tears must fit liberty's narrative,
if not, they're thrusted terrorist blame.
Mein Kampf ist nicht vorbei, bis alle frei sind,
Surrender not to the narrative of fake freedom.
Greatest freedom is freedom from selfishness,
a capacity mastered only by the living human.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“I accept the bible, but not nazism.
I accept the koran, but not islamism.
I accept the gita, but not hindutva.
I accept the torah, but not zionism.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Palestine to Kashmir, North Korea to North America, persecution anywhere is persecution of humanity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“White supremacy is not a human right, it's a human rights violation.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“If Only (Sonnet 1983)
If I were a fascist,
I'd press that button,
and wipe the colonizers
off the planet for good.
If I were a fascist,
I'd press that button,
and let millions of innocents
burn for a greater global good.
If I were a fascist,
I'd press that button,
sanctified of filth
we would start anew.
If only I were a fascist
like you - if only!”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Way of The Slipper (Bug-Repellent Sonnet)
This prehistoric world has an instinctual
affinity to black and white, binary concepts.
Justice is too grand an exercise to be contained
by the binary nonsense of violence and nonviolence.
Bullets are an act of violence, silence
is an act of bookish nonviolence – but there
is a third option – the way of the slipper.
Slippers are more effective in fighting bugs,
than bullets - slippers strip the bugs of
power, while bullets make them martyr.
With all your slippers combined,
the mightiest of tyrant is bound to fall,
be it a state head, court judge or copper,
or oligarchs rendering democracy into jungle.
When people blow their top, billionaires
become bum, and presidents turn tramp.
Fetch the household bug-repellent from
under your feet, and treat the corrupt
and bigoted like your offspring gone bad.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“It's the golden age of crime, when the biggest cartel of a nation is its own government.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“When terrorists become gods, citizens gotta be Godzilla.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“I now believe successful criminal and civil outcomes in these cases, prison for Gerry, and a large damages award for the boys, would clarify these issues and assuage their guilt feelings. A guilty verdict in the criminal case and a large civil verdict or settlement would be double vindication for the boys.”
Source: Betrayal of Faith