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Trayvon Martin

By Badri Raina badri.raina@gmail.com Y ou forgot your Biblical lessons, Dear boy; God being Light, all Good things are white; And Satan being the prince Of darkness, being born black Is a hopeless mess. Against such black vicissitudes Was a just law found that said To the white killer, “stand your ground.” Only some sixty million of your forefathers Were  murdered in the slave trade; Too many more are still left To be made dead. Sinners are those That think racism is bad. Only when non-white trash gathers Into a common cause is racism racism; Zimmerman is merely God’s own prism. From the Fuhrer he remembered how The Swastika was not racist emblem, But Zarathustra’s  declaration That only a chosen some Had right over life, death, and the fun Born of  extermination; thus Zimmerman was only furthering The  pure Aryan nation. Watch Obama hold his thinking head, Wondering how to b

The Gods above us

By Badri Raina badri.raina@gmail.com They had great faith in the gods Dotting the hills and dales— Those men and women who Are now corpses. Yet, not one among those that Survived was heard to say “The gods govern our conditions; Not the government, not the builders, Not the hoteliers, not the miners— None of these are responsible, since God willed it so.” All of their moaning suggested How unstuck they were with the gods They believed in. Of all the tangled flesh and bone That lay mangled among the rubble, One corpse stood out: Bang in the sanctum sanctorum, This young man, dead and askew, Had open eyes full of consternation Fixed searingly upon the god-in-chief. It was as though in his moment Of dying, his amazement at the deity’s Uncaring repose was too much to hide. He might have been thinking, “How Could you