A Poem: “Self-Inflicted”

 

In Dali’s

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans,

limbs are scattered, face twisted in pain.

A grotesque figure

rips itself to pieces.

 

Spain, 1936, on its way to Civil War.

 

In Brexit 2019,

a country is torn down

without a war.

 

Democracy allows it.

 

By Shai Ben-Shalom

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