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FOR SIMONE WEIL


Although I cannot share
this horror
I am resolved now
to live it
insanely
intensely.
I know it is a fiction.
My life has not thrown
me into Syria, Iraq, Libya,
yet I am resolved to press
my sensibility up against
what I know is going on,
what I know has always
gone on,
what I know has made me,
what I know is making me
what I am - the horror
That IS me, and then,
holding the horror close to me,
like something precious,
I might perhaps
be as Abraham,
pleading for Sodom,
or
Moses for Israel.

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