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Yanis Iqbal India
A Poem by Yanis Iqbal

A Poem by Yanis Iqbal

Yanis Iqbal India//8:27pm, Jan 9th '22

Building

On the streets of luxury - beyond the gardens of graves - lies a building,

Tall, sturdy, hard.

Engraved with glasses of wealth,

Splattered with corpses of commodities,

A nauseating stench permeates each perforation of its shiny surface.

Just outside its iron bars of privilege,

Image

Paragraphs of poverty - punctuated with the commas of brute deaths - are written with blood and body.

Adjacent to the barbed wires surrounding the numb, sclerotic walls,

Lie the rickety legs and malformed bones of penury-eaten children - 

Enrobed in the torn clothes of tear-blistered mothers.

The building - founded on the scaffolding of workers' sweat - looks at the glutinous muck of misery around itself,

Sure of its ugly existence as a spigot of wretchedness.

A Country Called Libya
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A Country Called Libya

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Ideological work in the new era of socialism in China - Part 3
Gabriel Martinez//1:50am, Sep 23rd '22

Ideological work in the new era of socialism in China - Part 3

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NATURE, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE
Luis Lazaro Tijerina //12:10am, Nov 6th '21

NATURE, VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE

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Largest Bank Collapse Since 2008 Crisis Hits the U.S.
Karl Fluri Canada//10:44pm, Mar 14th '23

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The United States (U.S.) is facing the most significant banking crisis since 2008, with three banks: Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Capital, collapsing in the last 48 hours.....

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The Imperialist Farce of Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Yanis Iqbal India//8:26pm, Aug 19th '21

The Imperialist Farce of Women's Rights in Afghanistan

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WITHIN THE WALLS: A memoir of the plague in Quebec City
Luis Lazaro Tijerina USA//7:03pm, Feb 18th '22

WITHIN THE WALLS: A memoir of the plague in Quebec City

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