Several friends have sent me links to the poem "Terror/Mathematics" by Zeina Hashem Beck -- written after the beheading of 21 Christian Egyptians in Libya in February 2015 and published online here in One Throne Magazine. To illustrate the style (with some mathematical symbols) and the power of the poem I offer the first couple of stanzas below -- and invite you to go to the One Throne website for all seven stanzas.
from Terror/Mathematics by Zeina Hashem Beck
After the beheading of 21 Christian Egyptians in Libya, February 2015
Try calculated, think math.
Capture and + the numbers,
- the Muslims. 21 is what you are
left with, which is 3 x 7. Any multiple of 3
is blasphemous, is √all evil,
and we will / its neck open.
Islam is an X
in an equation we never . . . (You may go here for the rest . . . )
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Sunday, July 19, 2015
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