We thrash, curse for air
As our strangler declares, look
How violent the Arab

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Zein El-Amine
Zein El-Amine’s poems have been published in Wild River Review, Folio, Foreign Policy in Focus, Beltway Quarterly, DC Poets Against the War Anthology, Penumbra, GYST and Joybringer.

This article was published in Issue 272.

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