“Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last nightBullets, rockets and granades flyingAllah heard only their wine voicesBursting in a fireball straight to ParadiseBombs and explosivesIlluminated the shame for an instantBefore sinking suddenly to earthEchoes of their words seep through wounds”
Gabriel Rosenstock
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