in the dark
a white-lit
screen: watercannons
spraying praying
people
on Qasr-El Nil Bridge
humans shielding
mummies
books Akhenaton
which way will
the army
go chanting pours
through my husband’s
laptop
selmeya selmeya
peaceful
peaceful
he says
the screen
shows
screens in Tahrir
gone black
the Square
itself black
except for
the flashes
should we mute
the sound
of gunshots
eshop yureed eshop
yureed what
the hell
does it mean
the people want
the people
want the fall
of the fall
of the you
say they say
the people
want bread
the barrier between us
and our president
was broken
by teargas says a man
in the news
who cannot
mute cannot shut
the screen to teargas
a fog from
this distance up close
the canisters
expired dates
made in usa
etched in metal
in Arabic
“the people” is
singular which
does not
translate
