{"id":15805,"date":"2005-03-01T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=15805"},"modified":"2021-02-07T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:31:09","slug":"pariahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/pariahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pariahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Being cast<\/li>\n<li>as lower caste<\/li>\n<li>makes you an outcast<\/li>\n<li>makes you the one to blame<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>The one to vilify<\/li>\n<li>the one to dominate<\/li>\n<li>the one to terrify<\/li>\n<li>and to humiliate<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>But like new strains of flu<\/li>\n<li>or less useful poison<\/li>\n<li>immunities can form<\/li>\n<li>and a boldness surge forth<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>With memories of old<\/li>\n<li>fresh as the dawning dew<\/li>\n<li>inhabiting your moves<\/li>\n<li>informing all you do<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>And in this manic rush<\/li>\n<li>to find the space to breathe<\/li>\n<li>to crawl out from the rocks<\/li>\n<li>and meet the morning sun<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>You enact the nightmare<\/li>\n<li>that once visited you<\/li>\n<li>on others in your path<\/li>\n<li>and make them fear the day<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>That banshee in your mind<\/li>\n<li>now makes the eyes turn blind<\/li>\n<li>to all the things you do<\/li>\n<li>the things you fail to see<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>For you are now the fiend<\/li>\n<li>that made you once cry out<\/li>\n<li>the master once outcast<\/li>\n<li>blaming new pariahs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><cite>Celta Arabica &#8211; Poems for Palestine<\/cite> by Jim Aitken and Ghazi Hussein. Available from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, c\/o Peace and Justice Centre, Princes Street, EH2 4BJ. (No price given &#8211; donations)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being cast as lower caste makes you an outcast makes you the one to blame The one to vilify the one to dominate the one to terrify and to humiliate But like new strains of flu or less useful poison immunities can form and a boldness surge forth With memories of old fresh as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8784],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-15805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-09","tag-author-jim-aitken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":2270,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15806,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions\/15806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}