Poetry book launch and poem (Jesus of Ottawa)

[Ehab Lotayef]

It would be great to see u at one of the launches of my poetry book: "To Love a Palestinian Woman"

Montreal
April 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
2220 avenue McGill College

Toronto
April 16, 2010 at 6 PM
with the music and songs of Maryem and Ernie Tollar
Beit Zatoun House
612 Markham St.

(for more information see: www.lotayef.com)

Ehab

----
Jesus of Ottawa
 
 
Through the snow filled streets
of the market
you drag your crescent
in fear
No one seems to notice you
No one seems to care
 
A verdict from Sussex Drive
with no possibility of appeal:
Forty thousand lashes
on Secularism Day
at the Canal
 
 
Caesar didn’t catch you in the act
Pilate never heard you speak
That minaret shaped scar
on your brown forehead
was all the proof we need
 
 
“Hurry up!”
Yells the RCMP officer
from his SUV
“It’s going to be rush hour soon
“This ain’t 33 AD”
 
--
Ehab Lotayef