on volunteering

that is to say choosing
to participate freely
without coercion
not without food or water
while in mortal fear
not while being terrorised
by drones
or aircraft attacks
this ‘voluntary transfer programme for Gaza residents’
is a rounding up
it is a deportation
without railways
it is a death march

in Paris, Lyon, Avignon
some schools have plaques
naming the children
from Jewish families
taken from their classes
their playgrounds
their friends
their teachers
by nazis
will any rebuilt Gaza
find space on school walls
for the names of children
made homeless
starved
murdered by the IDF?

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n.b. If anyone resists they are by default a terrorist; if anyone leaves they must have volunteered. Not only tens of thousands killed in the name of ‘security’, but language is being stripped of meaning.

CLP 05/05/2026