Here is something I wrote in college – forty-some years ago – and recently translated. \u00a0It was my\u00a0contribution to “Watching a movie – and discussing what we ‘got’ from it” . The war between Israel and Arabia. (Of course, this paper – as many of my papers – was “un-gradable”) …\u00a0 I never was a scholar.<\/p>\n
I was selected to read it at “Peace Essays and Poetry, United Nations Peace Week,” at the Ojai Art Center on September 17, 2016.<\/p>\n
Why? 1969<\/strong><\/p>\n One cries over ones – due to war – dead husband<\/p>\n One mourns ones children’s frightened war eyes<\/p>\n Who cries for mankind?<\/p>\n Who cries for its cruel and evil ways – for its guilt?<\/p>\n If one<\/u> human shows evil towards one<\/u> human<\/p>\n We hate the first and protect the second<\/p>\n We take a position- we make a judgment<\/p>\n Humans protect humans<\/p>\n Against humans<\/p>\n Protection of one self against oneself<\/p>\n You are talking about a fraction of the entirety<\/p>\n As was it the whole<\/p>\n As if it had independence, as if it had importance, as if it had value\u00a0 – \u00a0 alone.<\/p>\n You demand that we take sides<\/p>\n You are mistaken<\/p>\n There is more<\/p>\n I cry over Mankind<\/p>\n Over you and over me<\/p>\n We are so terribly divided<\/p>\n So unbearably lonesome<\/p>\n Because the whole constantly divides itself – in front of our very eyes.<\/p>\n Zitta – originally written in 1969<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is something I wrote in college – forty-some years ago – and recently translated. \u00a0It was my\u00a0contribution to “Watching a movie – and discussing what we ‘got’ from it” Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zittastubstad.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}