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There’s a game they have in Palestine
the one the children play
a game they call Resistance
and they play it every day.
On one side are the children
aged eight to seventeen
and they play it in the streets
in dirty shirts and jeans.
Across from them are soldiers
behind their concrete walls
they stand in body armour
as the children jeer and call.
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