I don't want to miss the bus again I don't know how Nora can function She's the half Palestinian with family in Gaza She's 21 and really funny, she has blond highlights in her hair She's beautiful and kind and gifted She has a photographic memory That hurt me to hear Because I know what images are in her head now forever My family started our lives together as refugees And thirty years later we're fucked up in so many ways that are difficult to explain It wasn't even our country And despite the pain we were very lucky The horror of what is happening in Palestine will have consequences for generations Now people finally see it Nobody's going to be safer Everyone understands what "stability operations" have created here I feel useless I guess a lot of people feel useless |