Gregor Samsa I thought we were almost human With Gigi and Bella Hadid And Tony Shalhoub and Shakira And Rami Malek But nobody read them as Arab I guess Arab is inextricably bad evil dark We're all Gregor Samsa again I'm the vermin I was in high school in 2001 The Jewish voice for peace protests in the states warmed my heart I think they held a conference in my university years ago It was sad to see Bassem Youssef shaking In peace time I have my own opinion about him and his family (his baba was in our club) But right now I'm so proud of him for showing the world our black black black Egyptian humor If you treat us like clowns, we'll show you clowns When he swore in Arabic everybody cheered That's how we feel, we just want to cuss at this absurd and cruel bullshit Why respond earnestly, why be dignified when in the end we'll be carpet bombed off the face of the earth Fuck the racists and fuck the complacent ones and fuck the narcissists who will only pretend to see us as people if we say they're the good guys and the saviours I'm sad for the anti Zionist Israeli people too To see your government commit genocide is also horrific and also painful My parents taught me that war time shows you people's true faces And I see everybody clearly now |