This Is Not a Border by J.M. Coetzee

Author:J.M. Coetzee
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781632868855
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

A GIFT FOR PALFEST

Alice Walker

On my website alicewalkersgarden.com, where this poem appears, there is a picture of a small child’s smashed and bloody shoe. Beneath the poem there are photographs of children who were murdered by Israeli soldiers, one of them in a church. Also there is a picture of Chief Joseph, the Native American holy man and wisdom carrier of his people who were massacred by the US military and forced from their homes and lands so that immigrants from they knew not where could ‘settle’ the beloved valleys and hills where they had lived for hundreds of years. There is also a photograph of Emmett Till, a black boy brutally murdered when he was fourteen years old by grown white men who then threw his mutilated body into a river. The killing of children is especially heinous, hard to bear, difficult to fathom. It is occurring now in rates so astonishing as to make all of us wonder who so-called ‘humans’ actually are.

One thing is certain: the one who murders a child may be called many things, including ‘patriot’, but he or she will never be called beautiful.

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