Anatomy of Silence

 

Anatomy of Silence

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In the city of
lashed tongues
gashed throats
bleeding ears
LED screens and projectors
wired to sound amplifiers
blare the Minister of Stolen Time’s
Independence Day speech
across empty streets

lashed tongues
gashed throats
bleeding ears
also known as a tourist paradise

In the dispossessed land,
it is the usual scenery:
soldiers guarding empty streets
a labyrinth
of checkpoints
razor wires
steel barricades
perpetually shifting

In the dispossessed land,
it is the usual scenery:
vertigo

Uzma Falak