RKS Poetry Anthology: “My Ninety Minutes as a Palestinian Hostage” (NAMBY)

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My Ninety Minutes as a Palestinian Hostage (NAMBY)

In the midst of dropping off spouse at Toronto’s The Four Seasons Centre

for an opera performance

Unfortunately, at the corner just opposite the United States Embassy

An angry chanting mob many in keffiyeh shouting Allah is great

AND DEATH TO AMERICA!

Biden being burnt in effigy

Pounding with fists on the car ahead of me at the traffic light

Trapped by the swell and incompetent Toronto police

As the hate immigrates to Toronto from thousands of miles away

Why export you and your hell to Canada?

The Irish, Tamils and countless others taking vitriol to Toronto’s streets

 I don’t want that hell

And believe it or not

Prayer rugs are taken out and divine intervention is sought

Followed by smashing of huge plate glass windows to the dismay of the opera patrons

While I sit in my car blinded by police vehicle flashers

Please let me go as a hostage to the commotion

I gotta go home and pee!

Robert K. Stephen

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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