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Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror by Peter Dale Scott

conjohnley's review

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5.0

To have learnt from terror
                    to see oneself
         as part of the enemy 

can be a reassurance

. . .

to the familiar 
                     repetitions of the stars
          one recognizes 

whatever that noble movement
             you and I are not designed
    for this world we now live in 

sumatranelectricchair's review

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Even more pertinent now, over three decades after its publication. What are we to do, faced with the knowledge of the brutality of the American empire’s crimes? How can I live a contented life knowing all that I know—and I hardly know anything? “You and I are not designed for the world we now live in.”
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